A Look At PHP’s isset()
Liam Hammet wrote a good blogpost on the isset language construct. Let’s take a look through how isset behaves and what’s so special about it. Even if …
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Blog archive in space
I’ve been writing articles on this blog for about 13 years, and for a while now I’ve marked all of the 400ish articles with geo tags. This blog is Jekyll -based. To add Geo tags, all I had to do was add the information to the ‘front-matter’. Here’s the header of a sample post: title: "Browser tabs are …
Web Design Weekly #357
Headlines Micro Frontends In this article Cam Jackson describes a recent trend of breaking up frontend monoliths into many smaller, more manageable pieces, and how this architecture can increase the effectiveness and efficiency of teams working on frontend code. (martinfowler.com) The State of CSS 2019 …
Serverless PHP, Array Functions, and Data Structures with Chris Tankersley
In Episode 21 Eric, John, and Oscar are back post-php[tek] to discuss the June 2019 issue. Topics John and Oscar mention what they liked from speakers and sponsors at php[tek]. Eric’s experience with serverless application performance and thinking about when and where to use it. A functional approach to …
Note to self…
Note to self… Do not tweet when I’m angry. Nothing good can from it and nine times out of ten it’ll end in more frustration and heartache.
Use Vue.js Data Binding Options for Reactive Applications
Vue.js is known as a "progressive framework for building user interfaces". There's a lot to unpack in this simple statement. It's easy to get started with …
Two-Way Databinding Review
If you ever find yourself desperately trying to juggle state between parent and child components, ask yourself if there should instead be a single source of …
Immutable PHP Currency Converter
The gocanto/converter composer package by Gustavo Ocanto is an immutable PHP currency converter that’s data-agnostic. The post Immutable …
Game of Thrones Quiz Game with React and GraphQL: Create the Questions Form
We’re going to make use of some new packages for creating questions. Open a terminal in your project folder and run the following command: npm install …
Game of Thrones Quiz Game with React and GraphQL: Creating the Question Modal
Create a folder named question-modal within the src/components directory and a file index.js within it. Open the file and update it with the snippet …
Game of Thrones Quiz Game with React and GraphQL: Setting up a React App
To get started, we will use create-react-app to bootstrap our application. To create the application using the create-react app CLI, run: npx create-react…
Game of Thrones Quiz Game with React and GraphQL: Getting Started with 8base
8base is a Developer Acceleration Platform offering a vast selection of features to help developers build applications at a faster and simpler rate. With …
Game of Thrones Quiz Game with React and GraphQL: Introduction
After two years of wait, the critically acclaimed final season of Game of Thrones has come and gone leaving most viewers half full and discontent. There was …
My favorite part of our company website
Some time last year, we released the latest iteration of the Spatie.be website. There’s a succinct description of what we’re about, followed by a peculiar little block, dubbed “Latest insights from the team”. Unlike other agencies, we don’t have a company blog. We encourage everyone to write on their own …
★ Sending and receiving webhooks in Laravel apps
A webhook is a mechanism where an application can notify an other application that something has happened. Technically, the application sends an HTTP request …
Typed properties in PHP
Brent wrote another nice post on PHP. This time on the upcoming typed hints feature of PHP 7.4. Typed class properties were added in PHP 7.4 and provide a …
Automatically update docker images with Watchtower
Yesterday I ran across an interesting tool for Docker called Watchtower . It runs in the background and monitors your running Docker containers for images updates. If a new image is found, it pulls it and restarts the container with the exact same configuration as it was started. Optionally it can also remove the old …
A Week of Symfony #650 (10-16 June 2019)
This week, Symfony improved the compatibility of the HttpClient component with PSR-18 and with httplug . In addition, it introduced a significant performan…
Timelapse of the future
An amazing video on the fate of our universe. To me, this overhead view of time gives a profound perspective - that we are living inside the hot flash of …
Automatically update docker images with Watchtower
Yesterday I ran across an interesting tool for Docker called Watchtower . It runs in the background and monitors your running Docker containers for images updates. If a new image is found, it pulls it and restarts the container with the exact same configuration as it was started. Optionally it can also remove the old …