Blackfire.io as Gold Sponsor We’re very proud to be again a Gold Sponsor of the amazing German SymfonyLive conferences! Besides great talks and hackathons we know of the German community, the fun dimension is going to be even more present, and we look forward to sharing it with you! Meet us This year at our …
Headlines Front-End Developer Handbook 2018 A guide that anyone could use to learn about the practice of front-end development. It broadly outlines and discusses the practice of front-end engineering: how to learn it and what tools are used when practicing it in 2018. (frontendmasters.com) Introducing Calibre …
PayPal Holdings Inc. insists she should have known the minimum age is 18, because the rule is clearly stated in terms and conditions she agreed to. Clearly stated, that is, in a document longer than The Great Gatsby—almost 50,000 words spread across 21 separate web pages. — The ‘Terms and Conditions’ Reckoning Is …
Most front-end developers never take the time to fully learn the difference between debounce and throttle. Instead, they substitute each option, hoping to …
For those of you who don’t know, Atlas is an ORM for your persistence model, not your domain model. Atlas 1 “Albers” (for PHP 5.6) was released in April 2017. Atlas 2 “Boggs” (for PHP 7.1) came out in October 2017. And now, in April 2018, we have an early-access release of Atlas 3 “Cassini” , the product of …
What even is this? This is a full chapter from my started-but-never-finished book called Conference Speaking for Everyone. I’m posting this finished single chapter that’s been sitting on my laptop for nearly a year to a) Get some feedback and hopefully some impetus to finish the book, and b) Put what I hope is some …
One of the best features of CouchDB is its change feed which allows us to get a feed of the changes happening on our database. It's also possible to have a serverless function (examples are for IBM Cloud Functions but should also work for Apache OpenWhisk ) that fires in response to activity on that change feed. …
Laravel v5.6.17 comes with helpers to make subquery joins more straightforward, along with a few minor changes and locking Carbon at 1.25.* on the Laravel 5.6 …
Introduced a HeaderUtils class ¶ Contributed by Christian Schmidt in #24699 . …
Remember the anti-piracy campaign from years back about "You Wouldn't Steal a Car"? This was the rather sensationalist piece put together by the Motion Picture Association of America in an attempt to draw parallels between digital piracy and what they viewed as IRL ("In Real Life") equivalents. Here's a quick recap: …
Some time ago I developed a tutorial showing how to create a password strength meter in an AngularJS application using the zxcvbn JavaScript library by …
String matching is an integral part of any programming language. Many times, however, one requires to get a fuzzy instead of an exact match between strings. Usually in search applications the same word may be spelled differently – which if we do an exact math will return empty results. Fuzzy matching allows you to …
This week, Symfony improved the performance of the Cache component inlining some function calls and simplified the usage of the new Messenger component …
Over the past month and a half I've been trying to fully switch to a new work machine. Instead of my trusty MacBook Pro, I've mostly been working with a Microsoft Surface Book 2. Here's my lessons of this period. Context Let's start with a bit of context. Over the past 10+ years I've been using Apple laptops …
Yesterday I raced in my first MTB race. Well I guess first isn’t completely accurate because I did do a short 5-mile race about 20 years ago, but that was it and it’s been so long ago that experience has been pushed out of my mind. The one yesterday was called King of Goat Hill which as you can imagine was …
Most maintainers start working on open source software because it’s fun and solves a problem they have. Many continue out of a sense of obligation instead of fun and over time this unpaid, increasingly non-fun work grinds them down. When they make a controversial decision and receive abuse for it, their friends and …
It was TrueNorthPHP conference in 2013 that I first saw Ed Finkler speak. It was his Open Sourcing Mental Illness talk . This talk has meant so much to me on so many levels, but one of the things I took away from that talk was the existence of Mental Health First Aid . Mental Health First Aid is basically the …
In this episode, come along as I create a testimonials component for the upcoming (at the time of this writing) Laracasts UI refresh. We'll discuss the …
In this Episode Our hosts, Eric van Johnson and John Congdon dive into Testing in Practice and the April 2018 issue of php[architect] magazine. Share your thoughts on the topics covered and leave a comment below. Topics Eric and John discuss unit testing, test suites, static analysis, authentication with …
VuePress is a minimalistic Vue-powered static site generator from Evan You, the creator of Vue.js. VuePress was built to support the documentation needs of …