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Link – – stitcher.io
My colleague Brent offers some insights on a big project we're currently working on at Spatie.
The month May marks the first year anniversary of a client project I've been working on at Spatie. I thought it useful to share some statistics with the community, and give you a feeling of what a "real life web project" might look like.
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Link – – www.bram.us
Bram Van Damme explains how you can get autocompletion for most composer commands.
Read more [www.bram.us]
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Expect quick tips & tricks, interesting tutorials, opinions and packages. Because I work with Laravel every day there is an emphasis on that framework.
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Here's a talk by Mark Seeman that explains the differences between object oriented and functional programming.
Joe Watkins, core contributor and pthreads author, is working on a new threading API for PHP called parallel. It might be a while before it is released.
Recently, I set to work on a new threading API, named Parallel, it is not an exact clone of any existing threading API, it is an API focused on being simple and hiding the complexity inherent in utilising parallelism in your application, it is also focused on being forward compatible with the JIT, for that day when we can actually execute machine code in userland and in parallel.
https://blog.krakjoe.ninja/2019/02/parallel-php-next-chapter.html
EDIT: meanwhile a stable version has been released. You can find it in this repo on GitHub.
Tweet – – twitter.com
?? Laravel Core Adventures - Did you know?
— Christoph Rumpel ? (@christophrumpel) May 17, 2019
Ever wondered what "hydrate" means? I've been there. Then I realized it's just a fancy word for filling an object with data.
In this Eloquent Builder example, Laravel fills a new collection object with models from an array. pic.twitter.com/D5t0EVnksM
Tweet – – twitter.com
I always knew the browser was pretty smart about dealing with what I thought was incomplete HTML, but I didn't know the HTML5 spec actually defined a bunch of tags as optional ?
— Adam Wathan (@adamwathan) May 18, 2019
Google actually recommends writing your HTML this way:https://t.co/t3fu98s5IM pic.twitter.com/v2RAr5Whl9
Tweet – – twitter.com
You know `firstOrFail`, `firstOrCreate`, etc in @laravel
— Jeff Madsen (@codebyjeff) May 19, 2019
There's also a simple `firstOr` that will run a callback if not found pic.twitter.com/q7QmPR1y1S
Link – – reinink.ca
Jonathan Reinink wrote another awesome post on how to handle a complicated query.
I was asked recently how to calculate multiple totals (aggregates) in Laravel in the most efficient way. For example, maybe you have an email subscription service and want to display various totals based on your subscribers
Read more [reinink.ca]
Link – – engagor.github.io
At the Clarabridge Developers blog, Toon Daelman wrote a good post on how to improve your exceptions.
You've made it to this post thinking "Why do we still need to talk about Exceptions?". Well, they're used everywhere in OOP codebases, but sometimes they're used in a way that make debugging a bit difficult. Let's look at some ways to make debugging exceptions a bit more fun!
Read more [engagor.github.io]
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? PSA: <title> tags matter (especially for people browsing the web with screen readers)
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) May 28, 2019
ICYMI: https://t.co/g7IdUkEjiQ pic.twitter.com/ANIjMZUMDN
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? Laravel quick tip
— Sebastian De Deyne (@sebdedeyne) May 21, 2019
Use ->map->only on Eloquent collections to pluck multiple attributes pic.twitter.com/z3c1sOox9J
In this video Jason McCreary creates a PR that adds a null driver to our laravel-newsletter package.
Link – – sebastiandedeyne.com
In a new blogpost, Sebastian De Deyne compares Vue syntax with React syntax.
This post is a succinct rundown of most Vue features, and how I would write them with React in 2019 with hooks.
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When a request comes in your app will return a response. To create that response, your application has to do some work. Most likely queries will execute. This all takes some time. Wouldn't it be nice if the same request comes in, we can return the response the application has constructed previously?
laravel-validation-rules is a package that contains handy custom validation rules that are being used in various client projects we made at Spatie. Last week I added a new validate rule called Delimited to the package.
In this blog post, I'd like to explain why we added it and how it can be used.
Link – – stitcher.io
In an awesome post, my colleague Brent explains that PHP is in a very good state nowadays. If you dismissed the language previously, now is a good time to take another look.
PHP managed to evolve quite a bit since the 5.* days. Today I'm addressing the people who are either not programming in PHP anymore, or are stuck in legacy projects.
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Link – – mattallan.me
Matt Allan explains why using an offset is slow when used on large datasets.
It turns out it’s easy to page through results without using offset. All we have to do is keep track of the last ID we saw, then filter the results so we only fetch rows we haven’t seen.
Read more [mattallan.me]
Link – – verraes.net
On his blog, Mathias Verraes started a series of posts on patterns for decoupling in distributed systems. I'll link to just one of the posts here, but they're all worth your time.
The mind switch is to think of the passage of time as just another Domain Event, exactly like all the other events. After all, if we define a Domain Event as a granular point in time where something happened that is relevant to the business, then certainly the next business day, month, or quarter, is extremely relevant.
Read more [verraes.net]
Link – – frederickvanbrabant.com
Senior CEO Frederick Vanbrabant helps you to answer this horrible interview question.
You have probably already heard the horror stories of code interviews where they ask you to reverse a binary tree on a whiteboard. (if not check this blog post that I profoundly disagree with). Well, a few days ago I was in that exact situation. And I had no idea what the interviewer was talking about. So what are these binary trees and why is it so critical that you know how to inverse them? Let’s find out.
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