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Written by Dracony
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on Jul. 19, 2016
The “Not invented here” mindset and it’s counterpart “Don’t reinvent the wheel” mindsets are probably causing thousands of discussions every day. Almost every week you see a question pop up in programming subreddits where people ask whether they should use a framework or a library for something or…
Written by Dracony
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on May. 25, 2015
A short tutorial I did explaining the process of setting up a PHP project with continuous testing with PHPUnit and Travis-CI and quality metrics with CodeClimate.
Written by Dracony
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on May. 15, 2015
One of the things I always mention when I rant about misusing events is behavior mutation. Since listeners can be attached and sometimes even detached dynamically during application runtime it frequently results in event hell and severely impedes debugging. After some thought I believe same reasoni…
Written by Dracony
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on Apr. 21, 2015
It makes me cringe every time I see developers use PHPMyAdmin to administer their databases, even more if its a local database. This is a relic from the old times when people used it with their remote servers since desktop applications did not provide remote access functionality yet. Here are just…
Written by Dracony
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on Mar. 30, 2015
Middleware is now a very popular topic in the PHP community, here are some of my thougts on the subject. First, let’s take a quick look at what middleware is ( if you already know about middleware you can skip this part): Short intro The idea behind it is “wrapping” your application logic with addi…
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on Feb. 27, 2015
Just a few days ago I have finally finished the PHPixie ORM library and wanted to release it immediately. I planned on writing only a small blog post outlining its basic usage, then switching to finishing off other PHPixie 3 components and only after that returning to writing detailed ORM docs. The…