The `yield` keyword is used by generators, which provide a simple way to implement iterators without having to create a class that implements the `Iterator` interface. A generator allows you to write code that iterates over a set of data without needing to build an array in memory that is returned at the end.http://jenssegers.be/blog/66/behold-the-power-of-yield
On the internals mailing list Anthony Ferrara posted a plea for unity on scalar types. If you want to know why it's so difficult to add scalar type hints to PHP, you should read it.
Scalar types are a hard problem. Not technically, but politically, because so many people use PHP in different ways. And everyone thinks their way is "the one true way".http://news.php.net/php.internals/84689
The RFC needs a 2/3 majority to pass. The yes-camp currently has 67%. Personally I really hope this proposal will get accepted.
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If you need to retrieve some data from your Google Analytics account in Laravel 5, then laravel-analytics is the package for you. Assuming the analytics tracking code is installed on your site, the package allows you to determine which pages are visited the most, which browsers are used most to…
Recently I stumbled upon an interesting paper for implementing motion sensing requiring no special hardware, only a speaker and mic! Unfortunately the paper didn't include code to test it, so I decided to reproduce it here on the web!https://danielrapp.github.io/doppler/
Cool!
Dimitrios Savvopoulos, the creator of the laravel-translatable package (which I use in almost every project), shared a very nice tip on how to develop a package while it is installed as a requirement.
If you have write access to a composer package repository, you have the possibility to continue its development while it is installed as requirement in another project. Let's see how we can accomplish this.http://dimsav.com/blog/9/git-repository-inside-composer-vendors
If you have another, possibly better, way to go about this, let me know in the comments.
A handy list for when versioned shit hits the fan.
http://41j.com/blog/2015/02/common-git-screwupsquestions-solutions/
Excellent post by Rafael Dohms on the The League Of Extraordinary packages.
“The League of Extraordinary Packages” is what I have dubbed a collective of composer packages. Its essentially a group of developers who have gathered under a single flag (or in this case a vendor name) and set standards for the packages that live there.http://blog.doh.ms/2015/03/10/why-i-support-the-league/...
So these are a few reasons I like this effort:
- Imposed Quality, Curated List ...
- Reduced author fragility ...
- Extended reach ...
- Reduced duplication ...
Junior developers bring in a fresh perspective. The junior devs in our community come from a huge diversity of backgrounds, which gives you the opportunity to add someone to your team with a different perspective from everyone else. These new perspectives will increase chaos in the short term, but in the longer term will push you towards better solutions.https://devmynd.com/blog/2015-1-pairing-with-junior-developers
Under this scheme, version numbers and the way they change convey meaning about the underlying code and what has been modified from one version to the next.http://semver.org/...
Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:
Additional labels for pre-release and build metadata are available as extensions to the MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format.
- MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes,
- MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards-compatible manner, and
- PATCH version when you make backwards-compatible bug fixes.
Matthew Setter went to the rabbi.
I don’t have a specific conference in mind, but I’ve given myself the next 12 months. I think that’s a practical and realistic amount of time, yet still short enough to not lose sight of.http://www.matthewsetter.com/path-first-php-conference-talk/
A list of interesting conference talks and videos on PHP.
HTTP2 will mean a change in how we should build websites. The best practices of HTTP1 are harmful in a HTTP2 world.https://mattwilcox.net/web-development/http2-for-front-end-web-developers
https://medium.com/@genealabs/run-allthecommands-outside-of-homestead-e2fc8d05251fThe accepted solution thus far has been to install newer versions of PHP alongside Apple’s version using Homebrew or MacPorts. This would likely require you to compile the MCrypt extension manually. I also found that Homebrew could leave your system in disarray if things went wrong (more than once I had to do a complete restore because of this).
However, there’s another method I came across while research some non-related issues: install the latest version of PHP from a binary that includes the MCrypt extension. It will not bork up your system if you want to remove it, either.
Unit Testing gives you the what. Test-Driven Development gives you the when. Behavior Driven-Development gives you the how. Although you can use each individually, you should combine them for best results as they complement each other very nicely.http://codeutopia.net/blog/2015/03/01/unit-testing-tdd-and-bdd/
The next major release of PHP, version 7, is going to be an awesome release. Not only will performance be greatly improved, there probably will be lots of nice changes to the language.
The procedure on how PHP gets changed is easily readable and well documented. In short it comes down to this:
Functions that operate on other functions, either by taking them as arguments or by returning them, are called higher-order functions. If you have already accepted the fact that functions are regular values, there is nothing particularly remarkable about the fact that such functions exist. The term comes from mathematics, where the distinction between functions and other values is taken more seriously.http://eloquentjavascript.net/05_higher_order.html
Read the article for some clear examples to help you understand the concept.
Last week I made a Laravel 5 package that could dump your db. Last saturday night I took the time to expand the functionality. laravel-backup can now backup your entire application. The backup is a zipfile that contains all files in the directories you specify along with a dump of your database. The…
Michael Maclean demonstrates how a 2100% performance gain can be achieved when rendering a Mandelbrot fractal using Recki-CT, a PHP compiler written in PHP.
Recently, Anthony Ferrara (known throughout the Internet and beyond as @ircmaxell) and Joe Watkins (similarly well-known as @krakjoe) have been working on a new set of toys for solving this problem while staying on the “standard” PHP runtime. Recki-CT is a set of tools that implement a PHP compiler, in PHP. While this might you think of things like PyPy, which implements a Python virtual machine in Python, this is not Recki’s goal – it doesn’t provide a VM, so it can’t run PHP by itself. However, it can parse PHP code and generate other code from it.http://mgdm.net/weblog/php-at-the-speed-of-c/
