The latest PHP Foundation Update lists the new PHP core developers
I'm looking forward seeing with this group of developers will do for PHP.
Read more [opencollective.com]
Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas
Sometimes the extreme is surprisingly appropriate. Unique business models emerge when at least one dimension is so extreme that it defies critics and competitors to even conceive of its possibility.
Read more [longform.asmartbear.com]
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Need Something Sorted? Sleep on It!
Probably you'll never use this way of sorting in a real app, but it's kinda cool that it'll work.
Read more [kevlinhenney.medium.com]
Laravel Valet 3 Released With Multi-Version PHP Support
The Laravel team released the next major version of Laravel Valet (3.0), which introduces running multiple versions of PHP in Valet applications side-by-side.
Read more [laravel-news.com]
Those HTML Attributes You Never Use
In this article, Louis Lazaris describes and demonstrates some interesting HTML attributes that you may or may not have heard of and perhaps find useful enough to personally use in one of your projects.
Read more [www.smashingmagazine.com]
Adding Real Capabilities To Systems Through Naming
Shawn McCool shares some interesting thoughts on how things should be named.
Read more [shawnmc.cool]
Introducing Visit: a CLI tool made for humans to make network requests
I'm happy to announce that we have released Visit. This tool can display the response of any URL. Think of it as curl for humans. By default, the output will be colourized, and the response code and time will be displayed after the response.
JSON responses will be colourized by default as well.
And there's integration with Laravel: it can log in any user, report the numbers of queries used to build up the response, and more.
I'd like to tell you all about it in this blog post.
Errors when using groupBy() in laravel
– sinnbeck.dev - submitted by René Sinnbeck
Are you getting errors with laravels groupBy()? Here is short explanation of why.
Read more [sinnbeck.dev]
The value of a good database design
– tray2.se - submitted by Patrik Ahlström
You might think that the way your store your data isn't really that important. Well it's more important than you think it is. A good database design just like good clean code is the key to performance, not only for the end user but also for you the developer. A poor database model just like poorly written code will slow you down and furthermore it will slow your database queries down which results in a slow application.
Read more [tray2.se]
Measuring performance with Apache Benchmark
– barryvanveen.nl - submitted by Barry van Veen
I made a script to easily take consistent measurements using Apache Benchmark. It includes an easy way to compare multiple measurements in a visual way.
Read more [barryvanveen.nl]
Clean Coders Hate What Happens to Your Code When You Use These Enterprise Programming Tricks
This talk by Kevlin Henney looks at how a handful of coding habits, design practices and assumptions can systematically balloon code and compound its accidental complexity.
Avoid using else original
Using else often encourages complexer code structure, makes code less readable. In most cases you can refactor it using early returns.
How to improve privacy with Laravel file encryption
– geisi.dev - submitted by Tim Geisendörfer
Let's improve your users privacy with file encryption without using any 3rd party packages.
Read more [geisi.dev]
Common SQL errors for Laravel Developers
– tray2.se - submitted by Patrik Ahlström
I hope you won't run into any of these.
Read more [tray2.se]
All the hardware and software used at Laracasts
Here’s an exhaustive list of all the tools Jeffrey Way uses in his daily workflow at Laracasts.
Read more [laracasts.com]
Use a message envelope
The use of a message envelope has many benefits for the design of your application. It allows you to carry system information, nicely separated from domain information, in a generic way.
Read more [blog.frankdejonge.nl]
Code that breathes original
Have you ever needed to maintain a project that wasn't yours? A project that, when you first opened it, gave you chills down your spine? Even without reading the code in detail, you could already tell it was a mess.
CSS as the backend: introducing Cascading Server Sheets!
– dev.to
Obviously you shouldn't to this, but it's kinda cool that it works.
Read more [dev.to]
Testing the homepage of a Laravel app using Pest
Getting started with testing is not that hard. Here's a free video taken from the Testing Laravel course that will show you how you can make sure you homepage works.
Read more [spatie.be]
Running PHPUnit tests in parallel using GitHub actions
– rias.be
One of our projects has a really large test suite that isn't optimised to run with Laravel's parallel testing. It was starting to take more than 15 minutes to have the whole test suite run inside Github Actions, which is when my colleague Rias searched for a better way to do this.
Read more [rias.be]
