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…
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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
}
A great story by Derick Bailey of Watchmecode.net
The important lesson, ..., was that I owned up to the mistake, dug in and fixed it, and learned how to avoid the problem in the future. I was, in his mind, a better developer at the end of that day. I had survived a catastrophic crash of my own making and I had fixed the problem, learning some very valuable lessons in business down time and in code that day.http://derickbailey.com/email_archive/i-crashed-the-web-servers-of-a-100m-multi-national-corporation/
Here are the stages:
- Adopt personally
- Find the totem
- Repetitively broadcast
I had to learn about each stage separately. Each one contains activities that my 18-year-old self would never have believed were necessary.
Flux is both one of the most popular and one of the least understood topics in current web development. This guide is an attempt to explain it in a way everyone can understand.https://medium.com/@linclark/a-cartoon-guide-to-flux-6157355ab207
In this video Tom Scott explains why Chrome couldn't handle http://a/%%30%30 :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fw5Cyh21TE
In this excellent post Matthias explains why you can't put all your trust in cat when inspecting a file:
https://ma.ttias.be/terminal-escape-sequences-the-new-xss-for-linux-sysadmins/
Let's all agree to never trust anything that has been posted on the internet without very thorough inspection. And let's especially agree to never run an arbitrary command or script found on the internet, without really close inspection.
I bet you have a headache when you need to mark some menu item as active. Is there any good way to solve this? Yes, there is – route attributes.http://blog.krucas.lt/2015/07/active-menu-state-using-route-attributes/
I recently had to redirect every single request in a Laravel app. You might think that would be as easy as this: Route::get('/', function() { return redirect('https://targetdomain.com'); }); But that'll only redirect the "/" page. All other requests will return a 404.…
I recently ran into a problem where I had a suite of applications hosted on a set of subdomains that all needed to be able to share a single cookie. Any cookies other than the shared cookie needed to stay specific to their subdomain, but this one shared cookie needed to be accessible to any of them. I also wanted to accomplish this using Laravel's `Cookie` facade.https://gistlog.co/JacobBennett/15558410de2a394373ac
Laravel's native authorization functionality allows you to define abilities a user can have. There are multiple ways to check if a user has a certain ability: via the facade, via the user model, within blade templates and within form requests. What Laravel doesn't provide out of the box is a…
Watch it on Vimeo.In object-oriented development, we are all familiar with design patterns such as the Strategy pattern and Decorator pattern, and design principles such as SOLID.
The functional programming community has design patterns and principles as well.This talk will provide an overview of some of these, and present some demonstrations of FP design in practice.
Like most geeks out there I'm a big fan of Star Wars. Many will agree that the original trilogy is far superior to the prequel triology. Until yesterday I thought Episode II was the worst movie of the entire series. But then I found out about the holiday special.
The Star Wars Holiday Special was made in 1978, a year after the original movie. The storyline (quoted from Wikipedia) sounds quite good:
... Chewbacca and Han Solo visit Kashyyyk, Chewbacca's home world, to celebrate Life Day. They are pursued by agents of the Galactic Empire, who are searching for members of the Rebel Alliance on the planet. The special introduces three members of Chewbacca's family: his father Itchy, his wife Malla, and his son Lumpy, though these names were later explained to have been nicknames, their full names being Attichitcuk, Mallatobuck, and Lumpawaroo, respectively.Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Princess Leia are all in there. But their presence absolutely doesn't hide the fact that it is a terrible terrible movie. Episode II is a genius work of art compared to this pile of crap. In it's day the movie received mostly very negative reviews. George Lucas agrees. He said this about the christmas special: "If I had the time and a sledgehammer, I would track down every copy of that show and smash it."During the special, scenes also take place in outer space and in spacecraft including the Millennium Falcon and an Imperial Star Destroyer. The variety-show segments and cartoon introduce a few other locales, such as a cantina on the desert planet of Tatooine and a gooey, reddish ocean planet known as Panna.
See the special for yourself on YouTube. But I recommend you don't.
To restore your faith in Star Wars watch the trailer of episode VII . Very much looking forward to that one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCc2v7izk8w
