Freek Van der Herten's blog on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript

Migrating to PHPUnit 9

Link – Feb 13th 2020 – thephp.cc

Sebastian Bergmann, creator of PHPUnit, walks us through some history and design decisions for PHPUnit.

laravel-event-sourcing v3 has been released

Original – Feb 13th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

Our spatie/laravel-event-sourcing package is probably the best starting point for event sourcing in Laravel. It has excellent docs, that explain event sourcing from scratch, support for aggregates, projectors, and much more! It's all beautifully integrated in Laravel.

Recently we released v3 of the package. In this blogpost I'd like to walk you through the changes.

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A PHP package to execute commands via SSH

Original – Feb 12th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

Our team released a new package called spatie/ssh. This package allows you to execute commands via an SSH connection.

AWS VPC for Software Engineers

Link – Feb 11th 2020 – blog.deleu.dev - submitted by Marco Deleu

This post offers a good explanation of VPC and related terms.

Calculate the Carbon output of your website

Link – Feb 10th 2020 – www.websitecarbon.com - submitted by Brent

How is your website impacting the planet?

Manage Docker containers using PHP

Original – Feb 10th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 7 minute read

Last week, my colleague Ruben and I released a package called spatie/docker, that makes it easy to spin up docker containers and execute commands on them. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce what you can do with it and why we built this.

Capturing the World in Software

Link – Feb 6th 2020 – blog.jessitron.com

Very nice post by Jessica Joy Kerr on the benefits and tradeoffs of event sourcing.

We can get a complete, consistent model of a small piece of the world using Event Sourcing. This is powerful but expensive.

Introducing Yarn 2

Link – Feb 5th 2020 – dev.to

A good overview of new things Yarn has to offer.

I wrote 1 blog post every day for 2 years. Here's 5 things I learned about SEO

Link – Feb 5th 2020 – flaviocopes.com

Interesting read for the bloggers amongst us.

Enums without enums in PHP

Link – Feb 4th 2020 – stitcher.io - submitted by Brent

Brent explains a few patterns to add enum functionality in PHP.

PHP: Past and Future

Link – Feb 4th 2020 – blog.krakjoe.ninja

Joe Watkins compares the execution speed of PHP 4 against PHP 8. It's amazing how far PHP has come.

I hate regex

Link – Feb 3rd 2020 – ihateregex.io

A nice site that clearly breaks down and explains how a regex works

Mailcoach's (lack of) JavaScript stack

Link – Feb 3rd 2020 – sebastiandedeyne.com

In a new blogpost, my colleague Seb explains why he chose not to use any JavaScript framework for the interactive parts of Mailcoach

Pragmatically testing multi-guard authentication in Laravel

Original – Feb 3rd 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

Last week our team launched Mailcoach, a self-hosted solution to send out email campaigns and newsletters. Rather than being the end, laughing something is the beginning of a journey. Users start encountering bugs and ask for features that weren't considered before.

One of those features requests we got, is the ability the set the guard to be used when checking if somebody is allowed to access the Mailcoach UI.

In this blog post, I'd like to show you how we implemented and tested this.

The Wall of Technical Debt

Link – Feb 3rd 2020 – verraes.net

Mattias Verraes explains a method for making technical debt visible and negotiable.

EventSourcery: a free video course on event sourcing

Link – Jan 30th 2020 – eventsourcery.com

A few years ago Shawn McCool recorded a very nice video course on event sourcing. He recently made the entire course free to watch.

Building Mailcoach

Original – Jan 30th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 12 minute read

Today, our team released Mailcoach, a beautiful, self-hosted mailing list manager. It integrates with services like Amazon SES, Mailgun, or Sendgrid to send out mailings affordably. It’s packaged as a stand-alone app, or can be integrated into a Laravel project, it's perfect for bloggers, artisans, and entrepreneurs.

Even if you're not in the market for an email solution, Mailcoach includes a video course on how it’s built. I'm sure you'll see some valuable techniques that you can bring to your own project.

In this blogpost, I'd like to share why and how we've built this.

Did you know that the null coalescing assignment operator in #PHP 7.4 can be used to make memoizing stuff a little more clean? pic.twitter.com/SWWJEXQBLx
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