Posts tagged with 'tools' - Freek Van der Herten's blog on Laravel, PHP and AI

Posts tagged with tools

Debug apps running on remote servers using Ray original

Mar 8th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Earlier this year, we released Ray, a desktop app that allows you to debug faster. Instead of dumping values to the browser or console, Ray allows you to display debugging information beautifully in a dedicated window.

Since launch, Ray helps you debug local projects. Today, we're adding the most requested feature to Ray: the ability to connect to remote servers. All output of the ray() call, will be sent securely from your remote server to the local app via SSH.

Using this feature, you can quickly investigate problems on your production servers that you are unable to recreate locally.

In this short video you'll see a quick demo!

Introducing Ray: a debugging tool for pragmatic developers original

Jan 7th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 16 minute read

I'm proud to announce the immediate release of Ray, a desktop app that vastly improves your debugging experience. Ray is a dedicated window to send dumped values to. It has a lot of features that help you find and fix bugs faster.

screenshot

Ray is available for macOS, Windows and Linux.

In this blog post, I'd like to share why and how we've built Ray. If you just want to know what Ray is, head to the Ray homepage.

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Announcing our secret project original

Jan 7th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

These past few months, my team and I have worked on something that we think will be very usefull for PHP and Laravel devs.

At 14:30 CEST you can see me release it live in this stream on YouTube.

I've already shown our project to a couple of friends. This is what they said:

This is a really innovative and exciting project in a space that doesn't have many options.

And with very promising Linux support in the pipeline too! 😍

We're definitely talking about a daily developer experience improvement! https://t.co/tDHgsn7NiG
— Jess Archer (@jessarchercodes) January 7, 2021

For amateur developers only! https://t.co/srNgSM21ym
— Michael Dyrynda (@michaeldyrynda) January 6, 2021

Get ready for something awesome! https://t.co/1nr5VbO4nY
— James Brooks (@jbrooksuk) January 6, 2021

I already had the chance to take a look at it. It looks very promising. I think you will like it :) https://t.co/viITNC8QSt
— Stefan Bauer (@stefanbauerme) January 6, 2021

How to make Sail and Takeout play nice together

Dec 8th 2020 – mattstauffer.com

Sail is a new option for running Laravel locally via Docker. Matt Stauffer wrote a good post on how to let it play nicely with Takeout.

My current setup (end 2020 edition) original

Nov 28th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 11 minute read

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.

Tools for local PHP development

Aug 17th 2020 – blog.fortrabbit.com

Over at FortRabbit, Jascha Silbermann shares the different options you have for working with PHP locally.

Using pcov instead of XDebug for code coverage

Jul 16th 2020 – dyrynda.com.au

Michael Dyrynda explains why and how you should install pcov

Debugbar vs Telescope Toolbar

Jun 22nd 2020 – barryvdh.nl

Barry Vd. Heuvel, the creator of Laravel Debugbar, compares Debugbar against Telescope.

Inline Parameters Extension for VSCode

Jun 9th 2020 – liamhammett.com

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!

Sharing PHP-CS-Fixer rules across projects and teams

May 14th 2020 – laravel-news.com

Tim MacDonald shares a nice way to go about this.

Using BetterTouchTool as a window manager original

Feb 17th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

In this short post, I'd like to share how I use BetterTouchTool in my daily work.

PhpStorm settings after 8 years of use

Jan 21st 2020 – 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.

My current setup (2019 edition) original

Oct 19th 2019 by Freek Van der Herten – 8 minute read

Run and stop multiple long-running commands from Bash with a trap

Jul 23rd 2019 – liamhammett.com

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?

Customizing the look and feel of macOS

Mar 18th 2019 – www.codemonkey.io

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

HTTP Toolbox

Mar 4th 2019 – lornajane.net

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).

Tools to automatically format PHP, JavaScript and CSS files original

Jan 21st 2019 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

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 original

Nov 26th 2018 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

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

Nov 6th 2018

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

Nov 5th 2018 – nickjanetakis.com

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.