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★ When empty is not empty

Recently when I was working on a project I got some strange results when using the empty function. Here's what I was debugging. I've simplified the code a …

Written by murze.be - ¶ - Aggregated on Saturday May 19, 2018

PHP Versions Stats - 2018.1 Edition

Like he already did a few times in the past, Composer co-creator Jordi Boggiano published some interesting statistics on PHP version usage as measured by …

Written by murze.be - ¶ - Aggregated on Tuesday May 15, 2018

Refactoring Vue: cleaning up a list of posts with better component splitting …

Matt Stauffer shares some interesting refactors suggested by his co-workers on a Vue component he wrote. I've written some Vue since 2015, but I've also …

Written by murze.be - ¶ - Aggregated on Tuesday May 15, 2018

A newsletter about programming, design, and other related topics

My colleague Sebastian started a new side project: a newsletter about programming, design, and other related topics. Growing the Stack is a biweekly—as …

Written by murze.be - ¶ - Aggregated on Tuesday May 15, 2018

Check out these cool callbacks on Eloquent factories

Written by murze.be - ¶ - Aggregated on Tuesday May 15, 2018

Practicing symmetry

In a new video Jason McCreary , the creator of the wonderful Laravel Shift , demonstrates a few good tips to clean up code. In the video below Jason uses a …

Written by murze.be - ¶ - Aggregated on Tuesday May 15, 2018

Event sourcing made simple

The team at Kickstarter made a simple, synchronous event sourcing library implemented in Ruby. We’ll go over a high level introduction to Event Sourcing …

Written by murze.be - ¶ - Aggregated on Monday May 14, 2018

Catching multiple exception types in PHP

Love being able to catch multiple exception types in one catch block thanks to PHP 7.1 pic.twitter.com/YthVWxKG0A — Jacob Bennett (@JacobBennett) May 10, …

Written by murze.be - ¶ - Aggregated on Monday May 14, 2018

Tidy up your tests with class-based model factories

John Bonaccorsi , a developer from Tighten , wrote some good ways of structuring model factories in a Laravel app. Thanks to class-based model factories, …

Written by murze.be - ¶ - Aggregated on Monday May 14, 2018

A good issue

Sebastian De Deyne , package creator and JavaScript wizard at Spatie , gives some good tips on how to report an issue well. Maintaining a number of open …

Written by murze.be - ¶ - Aggregated on Wednesday May 2, 2018

Easily submit form data using a Vue component

Written by murze.be - ¶ - Aggregated on Wednesday May 2, 2018

Higher order taps in Laravel

My favorite Laravel feature: `higher order tap`. So simple, yet so powerful.

Written by murze.be - ¶ - Aggregated on Wednesday May 2, 2018

Improving the performance of spatie/laravel-permission

Barry van Veen recently fixed an interesting performance issue at our permissions package . Recently I was investigating the performance of an …

Written by murze.be - ¶ - Aggregated on Tuesday May 1, 2018

★ Automatically close stale issues and pull requests

At Spatie we have over 180 public repositories . Some of our packages have become quite popular . We're very grateful that many of our users open up …

Written by murze.be - ¶ - Aggregated on Tuesday May 1, 2018

Registering macro's in Laravel using a mixin

Rachid Laasri explains how to easily register multiple macros at once using the mixin function present on the Macroable trait. Laravel Macros are a …

Written by murze.be - ¶ - Aggregated on Tuesday May 1, 2018

The Future of Programming

Here's an amazing talk by "Uncle" Bob Martin where he gives an amazing overview of the history of programming and where he thinks it's headed. How did …

Written by murze.be - ¶ - Aggregated on Tuesday May 1, 2018

Array destructuring in PHP

Frank de Jonge , author of the great EventSauce and Flysytem packages, wrote a blopost on how to use array destructuring in PHP. In PHP 7.1 the array …

Written by murze.be - ¶ - Aggregated on Tuesday May 1, 2018

A handy eloquent macro to compare dates

⏲️ Handy eloquent macro for the date comparison impaired

Written by murze.be - ¶ - Aggregated on Monday April 30, 2018

Make a clear distinction between different layers of validation

In an older, but still very interesting article, Mattias Verraes has some interesting thoughts on form, command and model validation. Many of the …

Written by murze.be - ¶ - Aggregated on Monday April 30, 2018

Migrate your local PHP 7.2 setup to Homebrew v1.5.*

Recently Homebrew reorganised some PHP stuff. The old methods to install PHP and extensions via Homebrow don't work anymore. Andy Grunwald wrote a blogpost …

Written by murze.be - ¶ - Aggregated on Saturday April 28, 2018