We think syntax highlighting makes the structure of code easier to understand. But as it stands, we highlight the obvious (like the word function) and leave most of the content in black. Rather than highlighting the differences between currentIndex and the keyword function, we could highlight the difference between currentIndex and randomIndex. Here’s what that might look like:https://medium.com/@evnbr/coding-in-color-3a6db2743a1e
At Spatie we're constantly improving our application template called Blender. We love using packages to pull in functionality. Creating and using packages has many benefits. Though we try to create public packages that benefit the community, there are some packages that are very specific to Blender.…
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You may be asking yourself "Why PostgreSQL?" There are several choices for open source relational databases out there (we looked at MySQL, MariaDB and Firebird for this article), but what does PostgreSQL have that they don't? PostgreSQL's tag line claims that it's: "The world's most advanced open source database." We'll give you a few reasons why PostgreSQL makes this claim.https://www.compose.io/articles/what-postgresql-has-over-other-open-source-sql-databases/
Custom elements give us the tool to extend HTML's vocabulary, teach it new tricks, and jump through the wormholes of the web platform. Combine them with the other new platform primitives like Shadow DOM and , and we start to realize the picture of Web Components. Markup can be sexy again!http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webcomponents/customelements/
At Spatie we use a homegrown Laravel template called Blender. It's being used on nearly all our projects. When starting with a greenfield project we take a copy of Blender and make project specific changes in that copy. We built it because we want maximum flexibility and don't want to be hampered by…
Ross Tuck does not blog often, but when he does you probably are going to learn something useful. In his latest post he shares some techniques regarding exceptions.
Over the last couple years, I’ve started putting my Exception messages inside static methods on custom exception classes. This is hardly a new trick, Doctrine’s been doing it for the better part of a decade. Still, many folks are surprised by it, so this article explains the how and why.http://rosstuck.com/formatting-exception-messages/
A really great talk by Sandi Metz in which she refactors a nasty block of conditional code to a few small, understandable objects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bZh5LMaSmE
If you have a form on your website where one of the fields is of the `type="password"`, the page will now be marked as insecure in your browser if it is served over a plain HTTP connection.https://ma.ttias.be/firefox-nightly-starts-marking-login-forms-in-http-as-insecure/
"Password must contain 1 uppercase letter, 1 lowercase letter, and 1 number."http://ryanwinchester.ca/post/stop-forcing-your-arbitrary-password-rules-on-meWith a rule like that, the password
Abcd1234would pass your validation, butmu-icac-of-jaz-doadwould not.
Ryan makes an excellent suggestion to replace password rules by an entropy estimator like Zxcvbn.
One of the most important endeavors in the PHP universe is the PHP Framework Interop group. The group consists of several maintainers of big PHP projects. Their aim is to find commonalities between their projects and find ways to work together. They do this by proposing and accepting PSR's, short for PHP Standard Recommendation.
One of the most important PSR's is PSR-4 (and the now deprecated PSR-0) which describes a way to autoload classes. Thanks to this standard packages can be easily be reused in many frameworks and projects. PSR-2 is another important one. It is a coding style guide and greatly improves readabiltiy of code when working with a bunch of developers. There are several other PSR's that have been accepted.
Today PHP-FIG published their new site. It features a beautiful design by Jonathan Reinink (he's the designer of the PHP League sites, author of Glide, and creator of the PHP Package checklist). If you use PHP in any way you owe it to yourself to check it out the new site.
httpie is a command-line http client, much like cURL or wget. Written entirely in Python (using requests for the backend and pygments for syntax highlighting), it’s well portable to many platforms, including the big three Windows, Linux and OSX.http://radek.io/2015/10/20/httpie/
A few days ago Jeffrey Way published an interesting lesson on how to integrate pjax with Laravel. Pjax is jquery plugin that leverages ajax to speed up the loading time of webpages. It works by only fetching specific html fragments from the server, and client-side updating only certain parts of the…
Developers can appear very unproductive at times, sitting staring at the screen with our headphones on and very little in the way of keyboard clackety-tap. This however is when we are doing our thinking, when we are building up, adding to and rearranging the mental model of how our code will work. This is the biggest and hardest part of development.http://thetomorrowlab.com/2015/01/why-developers-hate-being-interrupted/Imagine how it feels to have that interrupted at random by a telephone call or somebody walking over to talk to you. It’s horrible.
Maxime Fabre wrote a comprehensive tutorial on Webpack on the madewithlove-blog.
... Is Webpack a build system or a module bundler? Well, it's both– and by this I don't mean that it does both I mean that it combines both. Webpack doesn't build your assets, and then separately bundle your modules, it considers your assets to be modules themselves.http://blog.madewithlove.be/post/webpack-your-bags/
You've successfully created a PR and it's in the queue to be merged. A maintainer looks at the code and asks you to rebase your PR so that they can merge it.http://akrabat.com/the-beginners-guide-to-rebasing-your-pr/Say what?
The maintainer means that there have been other code changes on the project since you branched which means that your branch cannot be merged without conflicts and they would like to you to sort this out.
These are the steps you should take.
Matt Stauffer explains when and how you can leverage custom blade directives.
One of the greatest aspects of Laravel Blade is that it's incredibly easy to handle view partials and control logic. I find myself frequently extracting the contents of a loop out to a Blade partial and then passing just a bit of data into the partial.https://mattstauffer.co/blog/custom-conditionals-with-laravels-blade-directivesBut sometimes the repetitive code isn't the view itself, but the conditional logic I'm running.
Today I released a new package called laravel-fractal. It provides a Fractal service provider for Laravel. If you don't know what Fractal does, take a peek at their intro. Shortly said, Fractal is very useful to transform data before using it in an API. Using Fractal data can be transformed like…
HTTP/2 has a great feature called server push. It enables the server to send multiple responses in parallel for one request. In a blogpost on the Symfony Finland blog Jani Tarvainen demonstrates how to make use of server push with the Symfony Kernel.
$app->get('/images'), function () use ($app) {
$images = array('/images/1.jpg','/images/2.jpg','/images/3.jpg');
$response = new JsonResponse($images);
foreach($images as $image){
$response->headers->set('link','<' . $image . '>; rel=preload; as=image',false);
}
return $response;
Read the entire article for some more background info.
When working on JavaScript code you'll probably find yourself riddling the code with console.log-statements when something is not working the way that you're expecting.
But did you know that there is a debugger statement available? It has invokes any available debugging functionality. To put it otherwise: you can programmatically set a breakpoint for your debugger. It should work in any browser.
function potentiallyBuggyCode() {
debugger; //the debugger wil stop here
}
