Posts tagged with best practices
An old, but still relevant, blogpost by Derick Rethans (of Xdebug fame) about why the @-operator should be avoided.
http://derickrethans.nl/five-reasons-why-the-shutop-operator-should-be-avoided.html
My current hosting provider, DigitalOcean, has a great backup service. It takes frequent snapshots of entire droplets and it's very easy to restore the snapshot quickly. Unfortunately backups are only taken once every week. For our clients this is not acceptable. If you only rely solely on the DO…
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In this video Steven Salevan, a site reliability engineer (cool title) for Twitter, explains how they use Ansible to manage thousands of their servers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwGrKXzocg4
http://www.theguardian.com/info/developer-blog/2015/jan/05/delivering-continuous-delivery-continuouslyIn 2011 the Guardian deployed the software behind the website 25 times. It was a laborious and fairly manual process. In 2014 we made more than 24,000 highly automated production deployments. Why and how did we do it?
There are many falsehoods programmers believe about geography, about addresses, about names and about time.
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
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.
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
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.
CodeIgniter 3.0 will support PHP 5.2. Anthony Ferrara wrote an interesting article on his blog why that's a very bad thing.
http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2014/12/on-php-version-requirements.html
Probably you're using a .gitignore file for every project. If you find yourself creating a .gitignore file for the same files on every project you should use a global .gitignore file. You can specify the location of the global .gitignore file with this command: git config --global core.excludesfile…
When creating a new website you should always use HTTPS. Here's a video recorded at Google I/O earlier this year on the why and how.
The New York Times switched to HTTPS last month. Here are their reasons for doing so:
I believe that the true value of what Eric Evans wrote years ago lies in the fact that virtually anybody can use some of the things he proposed. They don’t require any special tools, money, approval or reorganization. Those are simple things that you can start doing from next Monday (or tomorrow).http://weronikalabaj.com/ddd-ultra-lite/
