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Extended Validation Certificates are Dead

– www.troyhunt.com

In a new blogpost Troy Hunt explains why you shouldn't bother buying an EV certificate anymore.

That's it - I'm calling it - extended validation certificates are dead. Sure, you can still buy them (and there are companies out there that would just love to sell them to you!), but their usefulness has now descended from "barely there" to "as good as non-existent". This change has come via a combination of factors including increasing use of mobile devices, removal of the EV visual indicator by browser vendors and as of today, removal from Safari on iOS

Read more [www.troyhunt.com]

Test Contra-variance

– blog.cleancoder.com

In an older but still relevant article on the Clean Coder Blog, Uncle Bob argues that the structure of your tests should not necessarly reflect the structure of your code.

The structure of the tests must not reflect the structure of the production code, because that much coupling makes the system fragile and obstructs refactoring. Rather, the structure of the tests must be independently designed so as to minimize the coupling to the production code.

Read more [blog.cleancoder.com]

Introducing Phoenix.LiveView

Phoenix is a framework written in Elixir. It's creator, Chris McCord, showcased an impressive new feature called LiveView at ElixirConf.

LiveView is an extension of standard Phoenix views that will automatically propagate updates to the browser anytime state changes that would impact that view (using the existing Phoenix channels infrastructure). Instead of sending a state change event down the wire that you have to process in JavaScript manually, LiveView sends down an updated HTML fragment, diffs it against the current DOM state, and makes the necessary mutations for you.

Here is some more background info on LiveView: https://leveljournal.com/why-phoenix-liveview-is-a-big-deal

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Verifying Laravel Version Compatibility

– blog.tjmiller.me

TJ Miller shares a cool Travis config to tests against all versions of Laravel.

As Laravel 5.7 is now out, I needed to add support to both the package’s composer configuration and verification in CI. Previously, I only needed to verify against 5.5 and 5.6 I thought that having --prefer-lowest in the matrix would add the coverage I needed. Now that I am supporting three versions I felt that I needed a more specific way of verifying compatibility with different versions of Laravel.

Read more [blog.tjmiller.me]

A tags field for Nova apps original

by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

A while ago I ditched the custom admin of this blog in favour of Laravel Nova. As you might have noticed every blog post on murze.be has some tags. Nova ships with many form fields but a field to use tags is not included out of the box. That's why I created my own tags field and released it as…

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Introducing Laravel view models

– stitcher.io

My colleague Brent released another awesome package called laravel-view-models. On his blog he shares some good examples and uses cases.

In essence, view models are simple classes that take some data, and transform it into something usable for the view. In this post I'll show you the basic principles of the pattern, we'll take a look at how they integrate in Laravel projects, and finally I'll show you how we use the pattern in one of Spatie's, our company, projects.

Read more [stitcher.io]

Bitmask Constant Arguments in PHP

– medium.com

Liam Hammett explains what bitmask constants are and how they work.

PHP has a handful of core functions that can accept boolean arguments in the form of constants that have a binary value. These can be combined together in a single function argument, essentially passing multiple boolean flags in a very compact manner. They work a bit differently to how most people implement options in their userland functions, so let’s take a look at how they work.

Read more [medium.com]

Don’t clone your php objects, DeepCopy them

– dcsg.me

Daniel Gomes, a developer at Teamleader, explains a potential problem when cloning object in PHP.

As you know, PHP has a well-known clone keyword that shallow copy all of the object’s properties. So under the hood what it does is to create a new Object with the exact same values of that object properties – unless you change its behavior by implementing the clone() function in your class.

Read more [dcsg.me]

The Solo JavaScript Developer Challenging Google and Facebook

– www.wired.com

Wired.com published a interesting piece on Even You and Vue. It also contains some quotes by Taylor Otwell, the creator of Laravel.

The big reason for Vue's success, developers who rely on it say, is its simplicity. More companies want to build web applications that, like Google Docs, feel as snappy as a native application. But few actually build applications as complex as Facebook’s or Google’s. What developers often really want is a framework for building small, interactive web apps. Angular can be overkill for simple applications, while React has a steep learning curve even for experienced developers. Vue applies a more "layered" approach to building a framework.

Read more [www.wired.com]

Reusing domain code

– matthiasnoback.nl

Here's another excellent post by Matthias Noback.

Reuse-in-the-small is definitely possible. Reuse-in-the-large is deemed to be impossible, because no two problems/projects are alike, but practice proves otherwise. There are reusable components covering entire subdomains, which are nonetheless quite successful. The chance of success is bigger if such a reusable component is used to cover for a generic subdomain. Using an off-the-shelf solution in such a case helps you save development effort which can instead be redirected to the core domain.

Read more [matthiasnoback.nl]

Inside look at modern web browser

– developers.google.com

Mariko Kosaka, an engineer at Google, started a beautifully illustrated series on how Chrome works behind the scenes.

In this 4-part blog series, we’ll look inside the Chrome browser from high-level architecture to the specifics of the rendering pipeline. If you ever wondered how the browser turns your code into a functional website, or you are unsure why a specific technique is suggested for performance improvements, this series is for you.

Read more [developers.google.com]