Posts tagged with book
Brent Roose has written an excellent book. This time on his programming journey and the lessons learned along the way. It's not too long, I personally read it in one sitting, and liked it very much.
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PHP 8.2 has been released. It is a minor release compared to 8.0 and 8.1. This can be partly attributed to the departure of Nikita Popov as one of the most significant contributors to the PHP language. The PHP language has a lot of maintainers and isn't built by one person, but Nikita was one of the most active of them. Features like union types, typed properties, named arguments, and arrow functions, to name a few, were all added by Nikita.
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It's been over a year in the making and I happy to say it's here: the Laravel Beyond CRUD book and video course are now available.
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Christoph Rumpel wrote an honest lookback at the launch of his book. I takes courage to publish a post like these. Well done!
Exactly 365 days ago, I released my first ebook. I always wanted to share my experiences about it, but I never felt comfortable enough to do so. The project didn't turn out as expected, and I felt embarrassed. It's time to finally reflect it and to overcome my fears.
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Refactoring is an excellent book written by Martin Fowler. He recently released a second edition. I'm reading it now and can recommend it to anyone interested in writing better code. Here's an interview with the author on the second edition of the book.
InfoQ interviewed Fowler about the major changes in the 2nd edition of Refactoring, how to recognize code smells and refactor code, how code reviews and refactoring support each other, what tech leads can do to encourage refactoring, the benefits refactoring brings, using tools for refactoring, and mob programming.
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If you want to learn Varnish Thijs Feryn wrote a book for you. It's free to download until 7th March 2017.
Getting Strated with Varnish Cache is a technical book about the Varnish caching technology. Varnish is a so-called reverse caching proxy that acts as an intermediary between the browser and the webserver. Varnish stores HTTP responses and serves them to the browser, without accessing the backend for every request. This causes a massive speed increase.
Christopher Rumpel posted some good practical examples on how to refactor common loops to collections.
Refactoring to Collections is a great book by Adam Wathan where he demonstrates, how you can avoid loops by using collections. It sounds great from the beginning, but you need to practice it, in order to be able to use it in your own projects. This is why I refactored some of my older projects. I want to share these examples today with you.
http://christoph-rumpel.com/2016/11/How-I-refactor-to-collections/
Matt Stauffer is currently putting the final touches on his new book called Laravel: Up And Running. It aims to be a good guide for newcomers to the framework. But even if you've got some experience with Laravel, it should be worth your time to read it. Even Matt himself picked up a lot of cool…
Matt Stauffer has been working on a book titled "Laravel: Up and Running" which will be released soon. In a post on his blog Matt shares a few hidden Laravel gems that he discovered while writing his book.
No blog post could contain all of the new things I learned from writing this book. I've been using—and teaching about—Laravel for years, and I was still shocked by how many tools and helpers and features I discovered.Here are a few that stand out to me that I had never seen prior to writing the book.
https://mattstauffer.co/blog/things-i-didnt-know-laravel-could-do
Adam Wathan has another excellent article on using collections. This time he tackles the less used transpose-function.
Transpose is an often overlooked list operation that I first noticed in Ruby.The goal of transpose is to rotate a multidimensional array, turning the rows into columns and the columns into rows.
http://adamwathan.me/2016/04/06/cleaning-up-form-input-with-transpose/
Personally, I can't wait until the release of his book: Refactoring To Collections.
An excellent read for if you're dealing with a large legacy code base that mainly consists of spaghetti.