Ayesh Karunaratne made a good summary of the new stuff coming in PHP 7.3 which will be released by the end of the year.
This is a live document (until PHP 7.3 is released as generally available) on changes and new features to expect in PHP 7.3, with code examples, relevant RFCs, and the rationale behind them, in their chronological order.
https://ayesh.me/Upgrade-PHP-7.3
The trailing comma in function and method calls seems nice!
Mattias Noback gives some good tips for refactoring legacy code.
"Combing" legacy code by untangling the strings is a good way to improve it and take back control over it. In existing legacy code, you should stop (re)using existing methods, making them ever more generic. Instead, you create new methods, and copy code from existing ones, allowing you to simplify this copied code and end up with a manageable class.
https://matthiasnoback.nl/2018/04/combing-legacy-code-string-by-string/
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In an amazing (and funny) talk Lukas Eder demonstrates how powerful SQL (or any 4th generation programming language) really is.
In a new post Uncle Bob explains that you shouldn't have to choose between functional programming and object orientation.
In this blog I will make the case that while OO and FP are orthogonal, they are not mutually exclusive. That a good functional program can (and should) be object oriented. And that a good object oriented program can (and should) be functional. But to accomplish this goal we are going to have to define our terms very carefully.
http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2018/04/13/FPvsOO.html
In a new post on his Medium Blog, Laravel.io maintainer Dries Vints wrote how he managed do drastically improved the build time of the popular forum.
CircleCI 2.0’s builds run with Docker which makes spinning up new instances super fast. If you use pre-built images which are customized to your needs, you don’t even need to do any provisioning during the build which saves you quite a bit time. Pulling various images and orchestrating them in a CircleCI 2.0 config allows for very rapid build times. If you add their new workflows to their mix you could easily enable parallelization and speed things up even more.
https://medium.com/laravelio/how-circleci-improved-our-build-time-8d5c40b8cc60
On the Fortrabbit blog Frank Lämmer shares which steps his company has taken to be GDPR compliant.
Comply by the end of May. The General Data Protection Regulation is coming. This post reflects when, why, what and what not is changing for our clients.
https://blog.fortrabbit.com/fortrabbit-is-gdpr-ready
My colleague Brent shares some interesting thoughts on which direction PHP could go forward.
Let's take, for example, the debate about strong types in PHP. A lot of people, including myself, would like a better type system. Strong types in PHP would definitely have an impact on my daily work. Not just strong types, I also want generics, better variance and variable types. Improvements to PHP's type system in general would have quite the impact on my programming life. So what's stopping us from reaching a solution?
https://www.stitcher.io/blog/what-php-can-be
Most of the UI in my sideproject Oh Dear! is realtime. Because there is a vast amout of events being broadcasted using Pusher would be too expensive at this stage. So for our broadcasting we use socket.io and laravel-echo-server mentioned in the article below.
I had this challenge where I needed it to show a list of people who are currently viewing a specific URL in Laravel. So I started thinking. Part of me wanted to do a quick hack (luckily that’s not the strongest side of mine), whilst the other wanted to build something cool, reusable and long-lasting.
https://medium.com/@adnanxteam/how-to-use-laravel-with-socket-io-e7c7565cc19d
In this post we will see how to create a custom stream filter. Streams, first introduced in PHP 4.3, provide an abstration layer for file access. A number of different resources besides files – like network connections, compression protocols etc. can be regarded as “streams” of data which can be serially read and written to.
https://www.codediesel.com/php/creating-custom-stream-filters/
It’s hard to keep track of what’s new in JavaScript (ECMAScript). And it’s even harder to find useful code examples. So in this article, I’ll cover all 18 features that are listed in the TC39’s finished proposals that were added in ES2016, ES2017, and ES2018 (final draft) and show them with useful examples.
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/here-are-examples-of-everything-new-in-ecmascript-2016-2017-and-2018-d52fa3b5a70e
Michael Dyrynda, co-host of the Laravel News and North Meets South podcasts shares his knowledge on how to handle applications that share one or more databases.
It took me a couple of months to get this to a working state, so I hope that I'm able to save you some time should you find yourself in my shoes at some point in the future!
https://dyrynda.com.au/blog/sharing-databases-between-laravel-applications
Adam Wathan recently livestreamed how he built a renderless sortable component around Shopify's draggable library. You'll find the code used in this GitHub repo and the video itself below.
If you like what you're seeing, be sure to sign up to Adam's upcoming course on designing Vue components.
Over at Laravel News Paul Redmond, author of Docker for PHP developers, wrote a good post on how to use our RSS package to add a feed to a Laravel app.
Creating an RSS feed in Laravel isn’t the most challenging task, but using a package and a few tips can help you create an RSS feed relatively quick.
We are going to use the spatie/laravel-feed package to walk through going from a brand new Laravel 5.6 project to serving RSS feeds.
https://laravel-news.com/learn-to-create-an-rss-feeds-from-scratch-in-laravel
Scott Helme, creator of securityheaders.io, wrote a good introduction to certificate transparency.
Certificate Transparency is an open framework for monitoring and auditing the certificates issued by Certificate Authorities in near real-time. By requiring a CA to log all certificates they generate, site owners can quickly identify mis-issued certificates and it becomes much easier to detect a rogue CA.
https://scotthelme.co.uk/certificate-transparency-an-introduction/
Oh Dear!, my side project leverages certificate transparency logs to send you a notification as soon as a new certificate is issued for your domain.
Wes Bos, one of the best online teachers around, published a new video where he explains what the React's new context API entails and how you can use it.
Steven Vandevelde wrote a beautifully illustrated post on some cool functional concepts.
This is a more visual approach to the topic of purely-typed functional programming. What does it mean to have a “functional” programming language? What are types? What makes a functional-programming language “pure”? These are the questions we will answer here, with a focus on simplicity.
https://icidasset.com/writings/building-blocks/
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PHP UK Conference is a fantastic event that I had the pleasure of visiting these past three years. Last week the organisers released all session videos of this years edition. You'll find them all in this playlist on YouTube.
Here are the videos of some of my favourite talks of this years edition:
For years I've used Google's public DNS service. It's famous IP address is 8.8.8.8. It's a resolves addresses faster that my internet provider.
Yesterday Cloudflare launched their DNS service which promises to be faster and better for your privacy. It has an awesome IP address: 1.1.1.1. Here are some benchmarks.
Unfortunately, by default, DNS is usually slow and insecure. Your ISP, and anyone else listening in on the Internet, can see every site you visit and every app you use — even if their content is encrypted. Creepily, some DNS providers sell data about your Internet activity or use it target you with ads. We think that’s gross. If you do too, now there’s an alternative: 1.1.1.1
The announcement: https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/
More info + how to set it up on your device: https://1.1.1.1/
Last week I stumbled upon this article titled "GitLabbers share how to recognize burnout". It list these points to recognize burnout: You're constantly tired You no longer enjoy things Your job performance suffers Your relationships are strained (You have a hard time remembering…
