Inline Parameters Extension for VSCode
If you’ve ever found yourself asking any of these questions and happen to use VSCode, maybe the new Inline Parameters extension will help you out!
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Sharing PHP-CS-Fixer rules across projects and teams
Tim MacDonald shares a nice way to go about this.
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Using BetterTouchTool as a window manager
In this short post, I'd like to share how I use BetterTouchTool in my daily work.
PhpStorm settings after 8 years of use
– stefanbauer.me - submitted by Stefan Bauer
This article is the result of my 8 years of experience with PhpStorm and my best settings that make you a faster developer and let you focus more on the important things.
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My current setup (2019 edition)
After tweeting out a screenshot, it often get questions around which editor, font or color scheme I'm using. Instead of replying to those questions individually I've decided to just write down the settings and apps that I'm using.
Run and stop multiple long-running commands from Bash with a trap
Liam Hammett explains how you can use the trap command to stop multiple bash process in one go.
Sometimes when working on a project, I’ll always want to run a handful of commands at the same time, some of which may return when they’re done, others might be long-running, like watchers or services actively exposing ports. This is something that might seem simple to do with a basic Bash script at first, but what if your script has multiple processes running side-by-side and you want to be able to stop them all at once too?
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Customizing the look and feel of macOS
In the first blogpost on his new blog, Mathias Hansen, co-creator of geocod.io, walks us through how he customized the look of macOS. ChunkWM seems particularly interesting.
ChunkWM neatly arranges all of the windows on my screen. skhd which me to define global hotkeys to control ChunkWM. Pecan (built on Übersicht) renders the neat status bar that you see at the top of the screen
Read more [www.codemonkey.io]
HTTP Toolbox
Lorna Jane gives a good overview of the tools available when working on an API.
As Web Developers, we need to know how to work with HTTP from every angle. I gave a 2-hour tutorial at PHP UK that included some of my most trusted tools - but it was sold out and a bunch of people asked me if there was video (there wasn't, tutorials make little sense when videoed). Instead, I thought I'd try to set out a self-study version of the workshop (I rarely teach these days so I'm unlikely to deliver it anywhere else).
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Tools to automatically format PHP, JavaScript and CSS files
When working on a project with other people, it's important to pick a coding standard. A coding standard like PSR-2 in the PHP world specifies rules on where certain characters, like braces of an if statement, or comma's should be put. Agreeing on a coding standard makes the code more readable for…
Configuring PhpStorms code generation
I've been using PhpStorm for quite some time now, but never took the effort to fix a few minor annoyances I had with it. Getting rid of the default comment for new PHP files First up, when creating a new PHP file or class you PhpStorm will add this comment block like this by default: /** * Created…
Other people's setup
A couple of week ago I wrote a blogpost that contains all the software, hardware and settings I use. I've seen a couple of devs writing the same kind of post. Here are some of them:
- Michael Dyrynda, organiser of Laracon AU and co-host of the Laravel News podcast
- Christoph Rumpel, author of "Build Chatbots with PHP"
- Taylor Otwell, creator of Laravel and related services
- Wes Bos, creator of courses
Did you write down your setup as well? Post a link in the comments below! ?
ngrok, lvh.me and nip.io: A Trilogy for Local Development and Testing
Nick Janetakis shares three tools that come in handy when developing locally.
When developing real world applications you tend to run into certain road blocks such as:
- How do I test webhooks locally?
- How can I show a demo of my site to a client?
- How can I develop a web app that uses subdomains on localhost?
- How can I test Let’s Encrypt without a domain name? In this article, we’re going to cover all 4 use cases using 3 free tools and services.
Read more [nickjanetakis.com]
Analyze stack traces in PhpStorm
Whoops error pages are awesome, though sometimes you may need to analyze stack trace in PhpStorm!
— PhpStorm (@phpstorm) October 19, 2018
Tools -> Analyze Stack Trace
Can also be handy if you got a stack trace from a remote server log. pic.twitter.com/OVRb5KnBJQ
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My current setup (2018 edition)
After tweeting out a screenshot, it often get questions around which editor, font or color scheme I'm using. Instead of replying to those questions individually I've decided to just write down the settings and apps that I'm using. IDE I mainly program PHP. Mostly I develop in PhpStorm. Here's a…
Replacing standard CLI tools with better ones
Remy Sharp, a well known JavaScript developer, published a cool list of standard CLI tools replacements.
I'm not sure many web developers can get away without visiting the command line. As for me, I've been using the command line since 1997, first at university when I felt both super cool l33t-hacker and simultaneously utterly out of my depth. Over the years my command line habits have improved and I often search for smarter tools for the jobs I commonly do. With that said, here's my current list of improved CLI tools.
Read more [remysharp.com]
An Alfred workflow to search the Laravel docs
Till Krüss released a cool Alfred workflow to easily search the docs. Here it is in action.
Behind the scenes it uses an Algolia index to retrieve the results. I've been only using it for a day and I can't image how I could have lived without this so long.
https://github.com/tillkruss/alfred-laravel-docs
Spot, a little grep-like user friendly search utility
Last week I stumbled upon this little search utility called Spot, by Guillermo Rauch of Zeit.
- Short & written in Bash: you can edit it easily to suit your liking.
- Fast. Just find + grep + awk.
- Searches most things by default instead of some known predefined extensions.
- Ignores .git, .hg, .svn, devices and binary files.
Read more [github.com]
A modern text-based web browser in your terminal
Browsh is a small browser that you can run inside your terminal. If you don't want to install it locally, you can test is out by ssh'ing to it.
ssh brow.sh
Here's a screenshot of the https://www.brow.sh/ running in Browsh.
How cool is that! I don't see myself using this as my main browser soon, but it sure is a pretty cool project. It goes without saying that you should not type any sensitive data while using it via ssh.
Using EditorConfig
Frederick Vanbrabant recorded a new cool video, this time on EditorConfig.
EditorConfig helps developers define and maintain consistent coding styles between different editors and IDEs. The EditorConfig project consists of a file format for defining coding styles and a collection of text editor plugins that enable editors to read the file format and adhere to defined styles. EditorConfig files are easily readable and they work nicely with version control systems.
A simple resource for finding and trying variable fonts
Nick Sherman created a cool site where you can play with variable fonts.
This site’s goal is to help designers and developers become more familiar with OpenType variable fonts in a way that isn’t overwhelming, while also providing straightforward info upfront about the font projects, who made them, and where to find more info or get the fonts to use.
Read more [v-fonts.com]