Written by Matthias Noback
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on Aug. 9, 2022
Having discussed different aspects of simplicity in programming solutions, let's start with the first topic that should be scrutinized regarding their simplicity: persisting model objects. As you may know, we have competing solutions which fall into two categories: they will follow either the Activ…
Written by Matthias Noback
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on Aug. 2, 2022
"As I'm becoming a more experienced programmer, I tend to prefer simple solutions." Or something similar. As is the case with many programming-related quotes, this is somewhat of a blanket statement because who doesn't prefer simple solutions? To make it a powerful statement again, you'd have to ex…
Written by Matthias Noback
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on Jul. 29, 2022
By request: what's my workflow for writing books? Steps, tools, etc. Writing with the Leanpub platform A long time ago I noticed that testing-advocate Chris Hartjes published his books on Leanpub. When I had the idea of writing a book about the Symfony framework, I tried this platform and it was a…
Written by Matthias Noback
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on Jul. 27, 2022
When to use a trait? Never. Well, a trait could be considered to have a few benefits: Benefits If you want to reuse some code between multiple classes, using a trait is an alternative for extending the class. In that case the trait may be the better option because it doesn't become part of the type…
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on Jul. 6, 2022
This article shows an example of framework decoupling. You'll find a more elaborate discussion in my latest book, Recipes for Decoupling. Why would it be nice to decouple your user model from the framework's security user or authentication model? Reason 1: Hexagonal architecture I like to use hexag…
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on Jul. 4, 2022
This article is about a topic that didn't make the cut for my latest book, Recipes for Decoupling. It still contains some useful ideas I think, so here it is anyway! DateTimeImmutable is mutable I don't know where I first heard it, but PHP's DateTimeImmutable is not immutable: <?php $dt = new Da…