Written by Tomáš Votruba
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on Jul. 19, 2021
Do you have time to read a book now and then after work? Yes? Get Rector - The Power of Automated Refactoring and practice AST katas daily. But not everyone has such a passion for technology and yet wants to get the work done with as few mistakes as possible. Learning a new technology alone is hard…
Written by Tomáš Votruba
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on Jul. 12, 2021
Would you contribute an open-source project if it would help your private one? How do you measure such cost-effectiveness? Maybe it's better to fork the package to your own or create your single local service. But who will maintain it and write a test for it? Who will upgrade it when PHP 8 is in EO…
Written by Tomáš Votruba
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on Jul. 8, 2021
Do you know PHPStan, ECS, Monorepo Builder, PHPUnit, Config Transformer or Rector? In the previous post, we explored why are these tools scoped, where scoping makes sense and where not so much. Do you maintain a PHP tool that runs in the command line? Today we'll look at 10 steps on how you can sco…
Written by Tomáš Votruba
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on Jul. 5, 2021
Do you know PHPStan, ECS, Monorepo Builder, PHPUnit, Config Transformer or Rector? What do they have in common? They're PHP tools you install with composer and then run in your command line. Hm, what else? They're all scoped with help of php-scoper. Do you want to make your tool resistant to any co…
Written by Tomáš Votruba
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on Jun. 28, 2021
Already over 120 people bought the Rector book that we released just a month ago. The continuously growing interest in abstract syntax technology makes me very happy. It leads to more developers who can write their own custom Rector rules to improve their specific projects. That leads to more "how-…
Written by Tomáš Votruba
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on Jun. 21, 2021
Upgrading can go smooth without no bugs and just work. We can make our customer happy, even though we don't have any tests. The older I am, the more I care about safety. Not just for now, but for tomorrow and for my safety of my colleagues. Also for the developers, who will work on the project even…