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When the db structure changes, it's sometimes easy to perform the data migration inside a database migration.
— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) February 24, 2018
Migration 1: do the db migration + restructure the data
Migration 2: drop the old columns
I'd only do this for simple stuff. pic.twitter.com/v2roA6OxBc
On the Hackernoon site Nicolò Pignatelli wrote a good guide on how to write Value objects in a good way.
This is the list you must always check it against:
https://hackernoon.com/value-objects-like-a-pro-f1bfc1548c72
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Sebastiaan Luca, a freelance Laravel developer from Antwerp, coded up a couple of functions that mimic a pipe operator.
An interesting RFC proposal by Sara Golemon submitted in April 2016 suggested the use of a pipe operator to enable method chaining for any value and method. Yet as of today, it's still being discussed and there's no saying if it will ever make its way into PHP. So in the meantime, here's a solution!
https://blog.sebastiaanluca.com/enabling-php-method-chaining-with-a-makeshift-pipe-operator
Let's hope a real pipe operator will land someday in PHP.
I'm hopeful. Done well, I think it needs partial function application first, so that no additional syntax is required for the rhs.
— SaraMG (@SaraMG) February 21, 2018
In a new post on his blog Sebastian De Deyne shares a few services and tools he uses to help him with naming things.
One of the hardest (and sometimes frustrating) tasks in a programmer's day-to-day workload is naming things. When I have a hard time finding that perfect word, I generally wind up in one of two situations:
Luckily, there are tools out there that can be of help.
https://sebastiandedeyne.com/posts/2018/a-pair-of-helping-hands-when-naming-things
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? Fun tip: Use tap() in lodash chains for a window into your transformations ? pic.twitter.com/aF11Tlzuz7
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) February 20, 2018
By default all scripts on a webpage are allowed to send and fetch data from and to any site they want. If you think about it, that's kinda scary. Imagine that one of your JavaScript dependencies would send all keystrokes, including passwords, to a third party website. That would be pretty bad. In…
Almost a year ago, Scott Helme, creator of securityheaders.io and report-uri.com, wrote a blogpost on a not well known http header: Referrer-Policy.
Regular readers will know how fond I am of the existing security headers so it's great to hear that we're getting another! Referrer Policy will allow a site to control the value of the referer header in links away from their pages.
https://scotthelme.co.uk/a-new-security-header-referrer-policy/
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? Ever wanted to use the same controller to serve multiple formats?
— Adam Wathan (@adamwathan) February 15, 2018
Check out this set of macros that let you hit a single endpoint with different extensions to request the format you want:https://t.co/2sFGNf97be pic.twitter.com/HMNdicUWAy
?? Here's what it looks like in use: pic.twitter.com/zHo0GlAU6w
— Adam Wathan (@adamwathan) February 15, 2018
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???? Forgot about this little validation trick that had snuck by undocumented. pic.twitter.com/Hb5QUJY3ix
— Taylor Otwell ????♂️ (@taylorotwell) February 11, 2018
Frank de Jonge, creator and maintainer of Flysystem, recently started using Docker to test the FTP driver. On his blog he explains the why and how.
For Flysystem, an open source PHP package to deal with filesystems, I needed a way to test FTP (barf) interactions. FTP servers are notoriously bad at abiding by the spec. ... For Flysystem's FTP(d) adapter an integration test, using an actual FTP server, brought back the level of confidence it needed.
https://blog.frankdejonge.nl/regaining-trust-in-your-tests-with-docker/
In a new article on his blog Ian Carroll shows that it's quite easy to trick users into thinking that they're connected to the right site.
Extended validation ("EV") certificates are a unique type of certificate issued by certificate authorities after more extensive validation of the entity requesting the certificate. In exchange for this more rigorous vetting, browsers show a special indicator like a green bar containing the company name, or in the case of Safari completely replace the URL with the company name. ... Today, I will demonstrate another issue with EV certificates: colliding entity names. Specifically, this site uses an EV certificate for "Stripe, Inc", that was legitimately issued by Comodo.
https://stripe.ian.sh/
Dries Vints, maintainer of Laravel.io, posted a step-by-step guide on how to get started with Laravel Horizon on a Forge provisioned server.
I recently installed Horizon for Laravel.io and while it wasn’t that hard to install, I still had to figure some things out. Since this was the first time setting everything up I thought I’d write up the steps to take to get started with Horizon and set everything up with Forge and Envoyer.
https://medium.com/@driesvints/laravel-horizon-with-forge-and-envoyer-82a7e819d69f
In a terrific talk given at JS.Conf Asia, Jake Archibald, developer advocate at Google, explains what's going on in the event loop of the browser.
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Small #PHP tip: Want to before sure multiple keys of an array are set? Define them in one isset() call, it's so much clearer!
— Frank de Jonge (@frankdejonge) February 12, 2018
if ( ! isset($a['q']) || ! isset($a['w']) || ! isset($a['e'])) {
// PANIC
}
# Becomes
if ( ! isset($a['q'], $a['w'], $a['e'])) {
// OH NO!
}
Imagine you want to have an Eloquent model hold a status. It's easily solved by just adding a status field to that model and be done with it. But in case you need a history of status changes or need to store some extra info on why a status changed, only adding a single field won't cut it. To handle…
Michael D. Hill posted a great new video on his blog where he makes the case for optimizing for scannability.
As programmers trying to ship more value faster, we want to optimize first around the part of the work that we spend the most time on, and that is scanning code– formulating little, tiny questions and flipping through the code looking for the answers. We optimize for scanning by focusing our attention on sizing, grouping, and, above all else, naming.
http://geepawhill.org/optimizing-a-program-and-programming/
Laravel has a very powerful notification system. From the docs:
Laravel 5.6 will probably ship this wednesday. One of the cool new features is the ability to register Blade component aliases, which was PRed by my colleague Seb. On his blog Seb guides you through the new functionality.
Laravel 5.6 adds the ability to register alias directives for Blade components. Let's review some background information and examples.
https://sebastiandedeyne.com/posts/2018/blade-component-aliases-in-laravel-56
At Spatie, we have created a dashboard powered by Laravel, Pusher and Vue that displays a lot of information useful for our company. We opensourced the dashboard a while ago.
In a new post on his company blog Chris Sherry explains how they customized our dashboard.
We use Laravel because its a well-known framework among backend developers, meaning there’s a bigger community (including lots of open source libraries), great documentation and a tonne of experience of using the framework.
Vue.js is our first choice because it lets our frontend developers build components for a project without being to be locked into building the whole project on the framework, meaning we can use the right tools for the right job.
The fact that the Spatie dashboard used these meant that all the developers at CUBE would be able to build their own components for it, which was one of my key objectives.
https://3sidedcube.com/blog/2018/02/building-dashboard-laravel-vuejs/
It's really great to see that people customize and use our stuff!
Monica Dinculescu, an engineer at Google, shares on her blog how you can use Puppeteer, Mocha and Pixelmatch to create automated visual tests of a webpage.
I did a little song-and-dance that sets up Puppeteer* , takes screenshots of your app (like, all the routes you care about), and then compares them to the “golden” ones. If they match, your test passes! Yes, it only works on Chrome. No, it’s not actually unit testing. Yes, it’s literally just counting pixels but you know what? It counts them in both a wide and a narrow viewport size and any testing is better than no testing at all; fight me.
https://meowni.ca/posts/2017-puppeteer-tests/
