When you pay for private modules, you can:https://www.npmjs.com/private-modulesPublish unlimited private modules for just $7/month.
- Host as many private packages as you want
- Give read access or read-write access for those packages to any other paid user
- Install and use any packages that other paid users have given you read access to
- Collaborate on any packages that other paid users have given you write access to
Lumen is Laravel, stripped down for speed. It doesn't bother with views and sessions and other consumer-facing conveniences--it's optimized for speedy, trim, microservices. Try it out. And check out the docs, too, for a ton of more information about how to use Lumen.https://mattstauffer.co/blog/introducing-lumen-from-laravel
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Sure, you could always store JSON data in a TEXT or VARCHAR column, but having a native data type for JSON provides some major benefits over that approach: document validation and easy access.http://mysqlserverteam.com/json-labs-release-native-json-data-type-and-binary-format/
Over at the Fortrabbit blog you'll find a great list containing various influencers of the PHP ecosystem.
... we have to have an eye on future trends. So we are monitoring what’s going on in the open source PHP world. It’s fun watching all those interesting projects out there. But it’s not about technology only. You’ll need to know about the people driving the projects to understand what’s going on. What are the visible, vocal & visionary PHPeople up to?
So I'd like to stress that while it really came together in just about ten days or so, it wasn't like it was some kind of mad dash of coding. The actual amount of that early code is actually fairly small, it all depended on getting the basic ideas right. And that I had been mulling over for a while before the whole project started. I'd seen the problems others had. I'd seen what I wanted to avoid doing.http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/185-jennifer-cloer/821541-10-years-of-git-an-interview-with-git-creator-linus-torvalds
The source code manager to build git was... git.
The last few weeks I made the time to read Clean Code by Robert C. "Uncle Bob" Martin. It's loaded with small and big tips and advice on how to improve the readability of your code and why this is important. Recommended reading for programmers of all levels.
A quote:
I am not expecting you to be able to write clean and elegant programs in one pass. If we have learned anything over the last couple of decades, it is that programming is a craft more than it is a science. To write clean code, you must first write dirty code and then clean it.This should not be a surprise to you. We learned this truth in grade school when our teachers tried (usually in vain) to get us to write rough drafts of our compositions. The process, they told us, was that we should write a rough draft, then a second draft, then several subsequent drafts until we had our final version. Writing clean compositions, they tried to tell us, is a matter of successive refinement.Most freshman programmers (like most grade-schoolers) don’t follow this advice particularly well. They believe that the primary goal is to get the program working. Once it’s “working,” they move on to the next task, leaving the “working” program in whatever state they finally got it to “work.” Most seasoned programmers know that this is professional suicide.
This command will open your working directory in PhpStorm:
open -a /Applications/PhpStorm.app "pwd"
For easy usage you can alias the command to "phpstorm".
Update: as mentioned by Nicolas Widart on Twitter and rok in the comments below, you can also use PhpStorm's built in launcher.
The PHP UK Conference had a great schedule this year. Most sessions were recorded and are now available on YouTube. Happy viewing!
This site provides an overview of the shiny new ES6 features and a comparison to more traditional JavaScript. I certainly like the new syntax for creating and using classes.
Update: not everyone shares my enthusiasm for the new syntax regarding classes.
Eric Barnes of Laravel News news demonstrates a nice way to loop over a collection in a Blade view using @each.
... it’s important to remember that API design isn’t strictly about the practical implications on client and server software. The audience for an API is the developer who is going to consume it. Per the "principle of least astonishment," developers will have an easier time learning and understanding an API if it follows the same conventions as other APIs they’re familiar with.https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2015/04/how-many-http-status-codes-should-your-api-use/
A very nice post by Christopher Pitt about generators and how to use them to run code asynchronous.
https://medium.com/%2540assertchris/co-operative-php-multitasking-ce4ef52858a0
Is a million lines of code a lot? How many lines are there in Windows? Facebook? iPhone apps?http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/million-lines-of-code/
In PHP, variable allocation is really easy, you don’t really need to know how memory is managed to use the language. But if you want to be a good programmer, you NEED to know what happens when you write “$var = 10;”http://blog.thedebian.com/post/79117048456/what-happens-when-i-allocate-a-php-variable
Here's another cool piece of code by Matthias Verraes:
Yep, that's the entire test framework. More info at:function it($m,$p){echo ($p?'✔︎':'✘')." It $m\n"; if(!$p){$GLOBALS['f']=1;}}function done(){if(@$GLOBALS['f'])die(1);}
Having documentation on your API is highly beneficial. If it is well written you're likely going to receive less questions by consumers of your API about how it works.
Aglio is a nice tool that I've been using to generate API documentation. In goes the Markdown, out comes the beautiful documentation.
As you may know, the Scalar Type Wars are over. It has been decided that we will have scalar type hints in PHP7.
Here's a nice short write up on the three related accepted RFC's by Er Galvao Abbott.
This tech demo of Unreal Engine 4 looks amazing. Keep in mind that it isn't pre-rendered but running in real time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6EMc6eu3c8
Everything in the open world Kite demo is running in real time in Unreal Engine 4 at 30fps. In addition to Unreal Engine 4 open world features, Kite features fully dynamic direct and indirect illumination, cinematic quality depth of field and motion blur, PBR photo modeled assets and procedural asset placement.Here is the making of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clakekAHQx0
Socialite is a first party package that was introduced together with Laravel 5. It aims to provide a very convenient way to authenticate with OAuth providers. Natively it supports Facebook, Twitter, Google, GitHub and Bitbucket.
DraperStudio and Andy Wendt made a whole bunch of other Socialite providers.
