Building Oh Dear’s new design: Implementing the design
Here's a new blog post by our designer Nick on how he's revamping the looks of Oh Dear.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Consume less, create more
"Were previous generations really better off because they merely watched TV, or listened to radio, or read books? All of these activities are passive. All of these activities involve letting external thoughts temporarily replace your own. Today’s smartphones differ from medieval books only in degree—all media is created to be consumed. I had to start creating."
So much this!
Read more [blog.tjcx.me]
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Laravel DDD - Getting started with DDD in Laravel
– www.juststeveking.uk - submitted by Steve McDougall
In a typical Laravel application we are very used to doing things in a certain way, by the book as they say. However there comes a point in the applications lifetime that it is going to be easier to start looking to split this code into Domains so that we can logically group our code.
Read more [www.juststeveking.uk]
PHP Tricks: Multi-value match()
Larry Garfield shares a neat use of match
Read more [peakd.com]
What the new PHP core developers will be working on
Here's a small interview with the new developers that will receive funding via The PHP Foundation
Read more [thephp.foundation]
How the PHP Middleware Pattern works and can easily be applied
– doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
The Middleware Pattern allows you to easily change the input and output of an action; one layer at a time.
Read more [doeken.org]
Creating PHP interfaces, traits, and classes dynamically at runtime original
PHP is a wonderful dynamic language that's capable of many cool things. I recently stumbled upon something quite fantastic that I want to share with you.
From PHPUnit To Pest original
A couple of months I go I had the honour giving a talk at the GPUG usergroup on how to convert a PHPUnit testsuite to Pest.
Nowadays, I use Pest as the default testrunner for every package / project that I start.
Learn how to write readable PHP that is a joy to maintain original
I'm proud to announce that our new premium course on writing readable PHP is now available. It's called Writing Readable PHP.
This course contains a collection of bite-size tips (both in written form and videos) that make your code a joy to read for your co-workers and future self. These tips are aimed towards developers who know the basics of PHP and want to improve their craft. As a bonus, you'll learn to use static analysis to ensure that your code is understandable and correct.
Writing Readable PHP has been created by our team and Christoph Rumpel. It contains our combined knowledge on how to write the best PHP possible.
PHP isn't dead
Last month, The Laravel Documentary was released which showed the history behind Laravel. For the documentary a lot of people that are active in the Laravel community were interviewed.
From the footage that did not make into the documentary, the makers behind the documentary distilled a cool new short movie about PHP.
I'm honoured the some of my interview snippets made the cut. 😎
How to build modals with Laravel and Livewire
A super nice way to go about this, thanks to Philo. Cool stuff!
Read more [philo.dev]
Building Oh Dear’s new design: Project setup
We are currently rebuilding the Oh Dear website and application frontend. In this post, you'll read more about the project setup and tools used.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Using callbacks to prevent code duplication
– doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
DRY up code by deferring specifics to a callback.
Read more [doeken.org]
Improve Passing Booleans in PHP original
Passing booleans to a method can be code smell, as it is not clear what a boolean does by reading the calling code.
Simple event streaming in Laravel
Unlike traditional Long-polling using AJAX requests, where multiple requests are sent to the server and a new connection is established each time, event streams are sent to the client in real-time in a single request.
Read more [devdojo.com]
Why You Should Start Self Hosting
Rohan Deshmukh on the value of avoiding SaaS products and self-host instead.
Read more [rohanrd.xyz]
A list of all modern PHP features
PHP is such a good language at this point.
Read more [dnlytras.com]
A receipt printer for GitHub issues
Andrew Schmelyun built a very cool side project. I don't dare to introduce this at Spatie.
Read more [aschmelyun.com]
Naming constructors
Andraes Möller blogged a few interesting strategies to name the constructors of your PHP objects.
Read more [localheinz.com]
Query content of S3 objects with SQL using Laravel
While Amazon S3 is awesome for storage, It also has a feature called S3 Select. With S3 Select, You can use a simple SQL query to filter the content of the stored objects. and retrieve only a subset of data that you need.
Read more [sanjit.me]
