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It’s hard to keep track of what’s new in JavaScript (ECMAScript). And it’s even harder to find useful code examples. So in this article, I’ll cover all 18 features that are listed in the TC39’s finished proposals that were added in ES2016, ES2017, and ES2018 (final draft) and show them with useful examples.
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/here-are-examples-of-everything-new-in-ecmascript-2016-2017-and-2018-d52fa3b5a70e
Michael Dyrynda, co-host of the Laravel News and North Meets South podcasts shares his knowledge on how to handle applications that share one or more databases.
It took me a couple of months to get this to a working state, so I hope that I'm able to save you some time should you find yourself in my shoes at some point in the future!
https://dyrynda.com.au/blog/sharing-databases-between-laravel-applications
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Adam Wathan recently livestreamed how he built a renderless sortable component around Shopify's draggable library. You'll find the code used in this GitHub repo and the video itself below.
If you like what you're seeing, be sure to sign up to Adam's upcoming course on designing Vue components.
Over at Laravel News Paul Redmond, author of Docker for PHP developers, wrote a good post on how to use our RSS package to add a feed to a Laravel app.
Creating an RSS feed in Laravel isn’t the most challenging task, but using a package and a few tips can help you create an RSS feed relatively quick.
We are going to use the spatie/laravel-feed package to walk through going from a brand new Laravel 5.6 project to serving RSS feeds.
https://laravel-news.com/learn-to-create-an-rss-feeds-from-scratch-in-laravel
Scott Helme, creator of securityheaders.io, wrote a good introduction to certificate transparency.
Certificate Transparency is an open framework for monitoring and auditing the certificates issued by Certificate Authorities in near real-time. By requiring a CA to log all certificates they generate, site owners can quickly identify mis-issued certificates and it becomes much easier to detect a rogue CA.
https://scotthelme.co.uk/certificate-transparency-an-introduction/
Oh Dear!, my side project leverages certificate transparency logs to send you a notification as soon as a new certificate is issued for your domain.
Wes Bos, one of the best online teachers around, published a new video where he explains what the React's new context API entails and how you can use it.
Steven Vandevelde wrote a beautifully illustrated post on some cool functional concepts.
This is a more visual approach to the topic of purely-typed functional programming. What does it mean to have a “functional” programming language? What are types? What makes a functional-programming language “pure”? These are the questions we will answer here, with a focus on simplicity.
https://icidasset.com/writings/building-blocks/
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? Handy lil testing macro for getting data from views pic.twitter.com/50dn2jCfSy
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) March 30, 2018
PHP UK Conference is a fantastic event that I had the pleasure of visiting these past three years. Last week the organisers released all session videos of this years edition. You'll find them all in this playlist on YouTube.
Here are the videos of some of my favourite talks of this years edition:
For years I've used Google's public DNS service. It's famous IP address is 8.8.8.8. It's a resolves addresses faster that my internet provider.
Yesterday Cloudflare launched their DNS service which promises to be faster and better for your privacy. It has an awesome IP address: 1.1.1.1. Here are some benchmarks.
Unfortunately, by default, DNS is usually slow and insecure. Your ISP, and anyone else listening in on the Internet, can see every site you visit and every app you use — even if their content is encrypted. Creepily, some DNS providers sell data about your Internet activity or use it target you with ads. We think that’s gross. If you do too, now there’s an alternative: 1.1.1.1
The announcement: https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/
More info + how to set it up on your device: https://1.1.1.1/
Last week I stumbled upon this article titled "GitLabbers share how to recognize burnout". It list these points to recognize burnout: You're constantly tired You no longer enjoy things Your job performance suffers Your relationships are strained (You have a hard time remembering…
Andreas Creten, co-founder of madewithlove, wrote a good blogpost about a few aspects of their company culture.
There are three requirements for making good products: developers with the right skills, decent product management and ideal working conditions. The reason why so many of us wear headphones has to do with the latter. As a software developer, the last thing you want is distraction: colleagues talking to each other, the sound of a coffee machine, a printer and so on. Distraction prevents you from getting “in the zone”, a state of mind in which you deliver your best work.
https://medium.com/we-are-madewithlove/why-is-everybody-wearing-headphones-522a61de27ca
Project failures is a WordPress blog with horror stories of project that have terribly gone wrong. I recently stumbled across this particularly juicy story.
A few years ago, I was hired to work as a consultant on a software project for a large French tech company. What I have witnessed there is beyond everything I could possibly have imagined in terms of software engineering. Far more serious than just a lack of professional competence was the utmost contempt for human dignity which at some point made me compare the whole experience to (what I imagine can be) jail. What I relate here is a selected list of topics that should illustrate my point, but check out by yourself.
https://projectfailures.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/project-from-hell/
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— hans ? (@hanspagel) March 27, 2018
Over at Laravel News Povilas Korop wrote a nice tutorial on how to use our medialibrary (we released a new major version a couple of days ago).
By default, the Laravel registration form contains only the name, email, and password, but often it’s useful to allow the user to upload a photo or an avatar. In this tutorial we will show you an easy way to add it, using Spatie’s Media Library package.
https://laravel-news.com/uploading-avatar-images
It's a good tutorial but there's a few things not mentioned. At the end of the post you'll see this line of code:
Auth::user()->getMedia('avatars')->first()->getUrl('thumb');
That can be written a bit shorter as :
Auth::user()->getFirstMediaUrl('avatars', 'thumb');
The new v7 of the medialibrary has a new feature called "single file collections", which is just perfect for this example. Take a look at the docs: https://docs.spatie.be/laravel-medialibrary/v7/working-with-media-collections/defining-media-collections#single-file-collections
At this year's Laracon Online Adam Wathan gave a fantastic talk on creating reusable view components. The excellent new post on Adam's blog is basically the written down version of talk. Amazing stuff!
Splitting a component into a presentational component and a renderless component is an extremely useful pattern to master and can make code reuse a lot easier, but it's not always worth it. Use this approach if:
https://adamwathan.me/renderless-components-in-vuejs/
If you find yourself having a bunch of slow tests that don't need to execute every time you run the tests, take a look at PHPUnit's defaultTestSuite setting. TJ Miller explains it in a blog post he wrote last year.
To avoid running the interactive test suite with the rest of my tests, manually or via a CI job, I had to explicitly include all the other suites using phpunit --testsuite Api,Feature,Unit. This felt a bit grim and I would rather exclude just that one suite. So I did some digging and found the defaultTestSuite configuration for phpunit.
https://medium.com/@sixlive/separate-interactive-test-suites-f6fd59316ec2
laravel-medialibrary is a powerful package that can help handle media in a Laravel application. It can organise your files across multiple filesystems, generate thumbnails, optimize images and much much more. At Spatie we use this package in nearly every project. The last few months our team has…
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#30daysWithEloquent customize relations on your models as necessary in your domain. Don't be afraid to add more relations that describe your logic better.
— DRY, DRY, DRY, DRY (@SOFTonSOFA) February 22, 2018
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