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Today the maintainers of PHP voted on whether they should add return type declarations in PHP7. And guess what, it passed!
So in PHP7 you can declare this function that guaranties that an array will be returned.
function foo(): array {
return [];
}
You will be able to add a return type for closures, function, generators and class methods. Code which does not declare a return type will continue to work exactly as it currently does.
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This survey downloaded CSS files from over 8,000 domains and aggregated some data about how CSS is being used and written. I think this can be useful to drive conversations forward about how to organize, think about, and manage larger CSS projects, as well as to look at how the web is evolving.http://reports.quickleft.com/css
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A nice collection of input field animations:
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A repository is a collection, a collection that holds entities and which can filter and return entities back based on the needs of your application. How it actually holds those entities is an implementation detail.http://shawnmc.cool/the-repository-pattern
A clear and concise explanation of the repository pattern.
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Because the properties for the object are predefined PHP no longer has to store the data in a hashtable, but instead can say that `$foo` is property 0, `$bar` is property 1, `$baz` is property 2 and then just store the properties in a three-element C array.https://gist.github.com/nikic/5015323This means that PHP only needs one hashtable in the class that does the property-name to offset mapping and uses a memory-efficient C-array in the individual objects. Arrays on the other hand need the hashtable for every array.
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Supercharge OSX' Quick Look with these plugins:
https://github.com/sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins
You can opt to install them manually, the cool kids prefer to do this with Homebrew Cask.
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Awesome talk by David Heneimeir Hansson, the creator of Ruby On Rails. The short version: don't just blindly follow design patterns and value clarity over testability.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LfmrkyP81M
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https://www.andyjeffries.co.uk/25-tips-for-intermediate-git-users/As someone who’s always felt fairly comfortable in Git, I thought sharing some of the nuggets I learnt with the community might help someone to find an answer without needing to do lots of research.
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The arrival of HTTP/2 will require a bit of re-thinking how we handle websites (and webservers), so perhaps it's time to reflect on what those changes can bring. This post is based entirely on theory (the HTTP2 spec), as HTTP/2 is hard to test today (with a lack of servers and browser support).https://ma.ttias.be/architecting-websites-http2-era/
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... You can’t accumulate all that knowledge just by writing some code every day. Read books, discuss them with others, read other people’s code, experiment, draw on a whiteboard, or take a walk and just think.http://verraes.net/2014/10/software-design-is-just-theory/
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I didn't know, until a colleague mentioned it today, PhpStorm offers a clipboard history.
On the mac press cmd+shift+v to invoke it.
By default it only stores the last 5 copied items, but you can increase that number in the preferences.
Very handy!
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Glide is a wonderfully easy on-demand image manipulation library written in PHP. It’s straightforward API is exposed via HTTP, similar to cloud image processing services like Imgix and Cloudinary. Glide leverages powerful libraries like Intervention Image (for image handling and manipulation) and Flysystem (for file system abstraction).http://glide.thephpleague.com/
It comes with the ability to secure image URL's using a private signing key. I'm a bit worried about flooding the server but the owner of the package states that
... the cache filesystem + caching in league/flystem (with Redis/Memcache) should (at least this is the case in my testing) result in a speedy response...There's also a risk that over time your cache will become gigantic. The maintainers of the package are already discussing possible solutions.
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Capistrano is a server automation and deployment tool. It makes a whole bunch of servers simultaneously perform actions. This could be deploying our application, or clearing their cache.https://www.airpair.com/laravel/posts/automating-laravel-deployments-using-capistranoCapistrano tells each of our servers to pull the latest branch from Git, perform any necessary build steps, and deploy the application on itself. Setting up this process is what we'll be detailing.
If you want to use something simpler, take a look at Deployer.
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For projects with a long life expectancy, investing in your test suite is well worth it. Proper automated testing is a careful balance. Quickly introduce tests when you need them, and build a comprehensive, fast, and reliable test suite in the long run. We hope this post can give you some ammunition to win your team to this idea.http://everzet.com/post/107204911916/economy-of-tests
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BLOKK is a font for quick mock-ups and wireframing for clients who do not understand latin.http://blokkfont.com/
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Here's a big list of things to be aware of when switching an http site over to https. Ignore the bit about social buttons, just don't use them.
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A perceptual hash is a fingerprint of a multimedia file derived from various features from its content. Unlike cryptographic hash functions which rely on the avalanche effect of small changes in input leading to drastic changes in the output, perceptual hashes are "close" to one another if the features are similar.The code: https://github.com/jenssegers/php-imagehash
The blogpost: http://jenssegers.be/blog/61/perceptual-image-hashes
