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Announcing our secret project original

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:

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

– 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?

Read more [liamhammett.com]

HTTP Toolbox

– 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).

Read more [lornajane.net]

Tools to automatically format PHP, JavaScript and CSS files original

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…

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Configuring PhpStorms code generation original

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…

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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:

Did you write down your setup as well? Post a link in the comments below! ?

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ngrok, lvh.me and nip.io: A Trilogy for Local Development and Testing

– 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.

Read more [nickjanetakis.com]

My current setup (2018 edition) original

by Freek Van der Herten – 8 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. IDE I mainly program PHP. Mostly I develop in PhpStorm. Here's a…

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