Laravel Testing Crash Course
Let's finish up this series with a crash-course in testing Laravel applications with TDD. Using the example of "teams," we'll review two different forms of …
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HyperLogLog in Presto: A significantly faster way to handle cardinality …
Computing the count of distinct elements in massive data sets is often necessary but computationally intensive. Say you need to determine the number of distinct people visiting Facebook in the past week using a single machine. Doing this with a traditional SQL query on a data set as massive as the ones we use at …
Laravel Dusk Dashboard Package
Dusk Dashboard is a beautiful dashboard for your Laravel Dusk tests by Marcel Pociot. Learn how this package can help you visualize and debug your Dusk tests. …
SymfonyTour 2019
The SymfonyTour 2018 is now over! We ended this wonderful Tour of Symfony conferences last week at the amazing SymfonyCon in Lisbon . With 900+ attendees …
Updating WordPress GUIDS
Recently I changed domain name of one of my other WordPress blogs. However after transferring I found that the GUId’s of the old posts were not updated. They were still referencing the old domain. This caused the feed of the new site to show incorrect domains. My initial thought was to to use a plugin, but it would …
Building Products - Starting from Square 0
Lately I’ve been preparing to start building a new SaaS product called Optionality . I thought it’d be good to not just talk about the code, but also the product decisions and marketing involved in building a product. So in this first post, I want to start at the very beginning. This is important because I rarely …
Our GitLab CI pipeline for Laravel applications
Over at the Oh Dear! blog, my buddy Mattias described how we use Gitlab CI to test our app. That's why we're releasing our Gitlab CI pipeline that is …
Facebook contributes to MLPerf, open-sources Mask R-CNN2Go
Facebook has long supported open standards and interoperability between frameworks and hardware for driving machine learning (ML) innovation with projects like Open Neural Network Exchange ( ONNX ) and PyTorch . Developing industry-standard ML models and benchmarks will enable researchers and engineers to better …
Sessions and Flash Messaging
Because the web is stateless, we can use sessions as a mechanism for recording important user information from page to page. In this lesson, we'll review the …
Lint Your Vue Code with the Vue ESLint Plugin
The official ESLint plugin for Vue.js v5.0 was released this month, so I thought it would be a good time to talk about this excellent tool for linting your …
Route specific configuration in Slim
A friend emailed me recently asking about route specific configuration in Slim. He wants to be able to set properties when creating the route that he can pick up when the route is matched. The way to do this is using route arguments. I've written about route arguments before in the context of setting default …
New Keystore features keep your slice of Android Pie a little safer
Posted by Brian Claire Young and Shawn Willden, Android Security; and Frank Salim, Google Pay [Cross-posted from the Android Developers Blog ] New …
How To Review Code You Don't Understand
Max, a software developer here at Sentry , wrote this post on his own blog and we liked it so much that we decided to run it here. This represents …
★ Handcrafting mocks
In an application I was working on I wanted to implement automated tweets. Of course, this logic should also be tested. In this blogpost I'd like to show you …
Git hooks on Windows
I recently was asked to add a git hook to our main repository to add the Jira issue number to the commit message in an automated way. We were so far handling this really inconsistently, with many commits not having the ticket number at all, while others would have them either at the start or the end of the commit …
Can’t Click in TeamViewer
I was helping a family member set up a new computer, a Macbook Pro, and I had them install TeamViewer so I could configure things for them without them having to read everything to me. They got it installed, and I connected, but I couldn’t click on anything on their computer and they couldn’t see … Continue reading …
Biggest achievement of the year 2018
My biggest achievement for this year is staying with my current company for as long as I have. This may sound daft, but bare with me… A rocky journey My journey as a web developer has been super rocky, my first job only lasted all of 3 weeks. I can now look back and laugh at just how short that was, but at …
Better Practice – December 2018
Practice and more practice are the keys to adopting modern software engineering practices. It doesn’t matter if you’re using WordPress or Drupal to manage website content, trying to learn unit testing, get hired, or looking for better ways to manage date and time data—there’s always an opportunity to learn how to do …
5 Important Takeaways From the State of JavaScript Survey 2018
The yearly State Of JavaScript survey results came out recently, and if you care about Web Development, you care about the results. In this article, we'll …
404 Not Found
404 Not Found hardly needs an introduction. It’s by far the most seen status by developers and non-developers alike. 404 is emitted when a resource doesn’t exist, never existed or if the server doesn’t want a client to know that a resource exist. If the server knows the resource doesn’t and will never exist …