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Together with Dries Vints and Frederick Vanbrabant I organise our local usergroup PHP Antwerp. We recently bought some A/V equipment to record all the awesome talks given at our meetup. Here's the first one: a fine talk by Bobby Bouwmann about some cool design patterns used in Laravel.
PHP 7.2 was released almost two months ago. I decided to wait a bit until a stable version of Xdebug with PHP 7.2 compatiblity was available. And that happened yesterday with the release of Xdebug 2.6. I'm on MacOS and use brew to install stuff. Upgrading from PHP 7.1 to 7.2 is laughably easy. These…
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Bram Van Damme wrote a new post with some good examples of cool stuff that will land in JavaScript soon.
At the latest TC39 meeting the new features that will make it into the “ECMAScript® 2018 Language Specification” (ES2018) have been selected. All proposals that have reached stage-4 since the consolidation of ES2017 got selected. This post gives one a quick look at the features that made it into ES2018.
https://www.bram.us/2018/01/30/whats-new-in-ecmascript2018/
Laravel 5.5.29 introduced the ability to group a collection on multiple levels. In a new post on his blog, Christopher Rumpel demonstrates the new feature with some good examples.
https://christoph-rumpel.com/2018/01/groupby-multiple-levels-in-laravel
Barry Van Veen shares how you can install a package from a local path into your project. This is extremely handy when developing a package because you can immediately toy with it in a full application.
This article explains how you can require a package from a local path into your project with Composer. This way you can run a local copy of a repository and test any changes you make. Because the local repo will be symlinked changes are shared in real-time, there is no need for intermediate committing and updating.
https://barryvanveen.nl/blog/44-package-development-run-a-package-from-a-local-directory
The Vancouver PHP user group recently had a Q&A session with Laravel's creator Taylor Otwell.
Cool Nova tidbit revealed in the video: it'll be a package.
In a new post on his blog Matthieu Napoli, creator of PHP-DI, explains how he made v6 much faster.
But the good thing is that, after 6 years of existence, the project has matured and is now quite stable. The original objectives are met, even though there is of course always room for improvements and innovation. There is room to push the container to be better on other levels. And the most obvious one is performances.
PHP-DI 6 will be much, much faster because it is a compiled container.
http://php-di.org/news/21-php-di-6-compiled-container.html
At Spatie we have a dashboard against the wall that displays a lot of information useful for our company. One of the things it shows are the urls of client sites that are down. Behind the scenes it leverages the webhooks from Oh Dear!, a website monitoring service that Mattias Geniar and I launched…
My colleague Brent has some good thoughts on where to place curly brackets.
Dedicating a whole blogpost to curly brackets might seem like overkill but I believe it's worth thinking about them. Not just because of one curly bracket, but because there's a bigger message in all this. Thinking about how we read and write code not only improves the quality of that code, it also increases our own and others ease of mind when working with it. It can improve the fluency of your work and free your mind to think about real important stuff.
https://www.stitcher.io/blog/where-a-curly-bracket-belongs
In the beginning of the year people tend to compile lists with everything they want to achieve in the next 365 days. But sometimes, instead of wanting to learn or start something new, it's also good to leave an old thing behind.
A little over 2 years ago I started a weekly newsletter for Linux & open source users, called cron.weekly. Today, I'm sending the last issue in what is probably going to be a pretty long time. I need a break.
Here's why.
tl;dr: I've got a wife, 2 kids, a (more than) full time job, 2 other side projects and a Netflix subscription. For now, cron.weekly doesn't fit in that list anymore.
https://ma.ttias.be/im-taking-break-cron-weekly/
There's really no shame in calling it quits on some things to make place for fresh activities. The last couple of months I've seen some people close to me stop doing things they were once passionate about, but didn't fully enjoy anymore. And in each case it turned out for the better.
Together with Mattias I've been working on Oh Dear! for the last couple months. We launched it last week. If you want to try it out, just register and you'll get a trial period of 10 days. No credit card is needed.
I plan on writing a few technical posts on the whole project in the next couple of months. Right now you can already read this excellent article written by Paul Redmond about what Oh Dear! can do for you.
What differentiates Oh Dear from other uptime monitoring solutions, in my opinion, is the mixed content detection and SSL certificate monitoring. The web is moving to HTTPS, and your site’s availability can be affected by modern browsers when things go awry with your certificate.
https://laravel-news.com/oh-dear-app
Cristopher Rumpel recently launched a big redesign of his blog. In a new post he touches on why he moved away from his old solution, and what kind of problems he had to solved. Great read!
One of my resolutions for 2017 was to redesign my blog. One week before the new year I faced myself with the challenge and thought to myself if this was still doable. Somehow I managed it and here it is. In this article I will explain the process and show you how I redesigned the blog with Tailwind CSS and moved it from Jekyll to Laravel with keeping almost the same performance.
https://christoph-rumpel.com/2018/01/how-i-redesigned-my-blog-and-moved-it-from-jekyll-to-laravel
There's some cool stuff in the new version of the Vue devtools. Guillame Chau, member of the Vue core team, made a nice overview of the improvements.
A big update was released to the Vue devtools just a few days ago. Let’s dive into the new features and improvements!
https://medium.com/the-vue-point/whats-new-in-vue-devtools-4-0-9361e75e05d0
The are more cool features on the way as well:
We also have a few things in the works, like a standalone Vue devtools app that will allow debugging any environment (not just Chrome and Firefox), a brand new Routing tab and an improved support for Set and Map types.
On his blog, Sebastian De Deyne, shares a quick tip on how to pass data to a layout in Laravel.
Laravel quick tip! The @extends Blade directive accepts a second (undocumented) parameter to pass data to the parent layout.
https://sebastiandedeyne.com/posts/2018/passing-data-to-layouts-in-blade-through-extends
Collin O' Dell, member of the PHP League, shares how he was able to significantly improve the performance his json5 package using Blackfire profiling.
Back in November I released colinodell/json5 - a JSON5 parser for PHP. It's essentially a drop-in replacement for PHP's json_decode() function, but it allows things like comments, trailing commas, and more.
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I always knew that a PHP-based implementation would be slower than PHP's native C implementation, but execution time measured in minutes was completely unacceptable!
So I fired up Blackfire (which I've previously used to optimize league/commonmark) and got to work.
https://www.colinodell.com/blog/201801/optimizing-colinodelljson5-blackfire
I'm currently building a webapp named Oh Dear: an easy to use and beautiful website monitor. It has recently gone into it's beta phase. At the moment of writing everybody can register a new account. After you've registered you'll start your trial period of 10 days. Oh Dear is built on top Laravel…
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Recently we released laravel-cors. This package can add the necessary CORS headers of your Laravel app. In this post I'd like to give a quick explanation of what CORS is and how you can use the package. What is CORS Imagine that all JavaScript code for domain X running in a browser would be able to…
Marcel Pociot, creator of the BotMan framework, explains how you can leverage Alexa, BotMan and Laravel Forge to deploy sites with your voice.
http://marcelpociot.de/blog/deploy-your-laravel-forge-sites-with-your-voice
In an article at Hackernoon, David Gilbertson warns about the dangers of trusting 3rd party packages on npm. He goes into how a package can make unwanted http requests in the browser and how you can protect yourself against that.
It’s been a frantic week of security scares — it seems like every day there’s a new vulnerability. It’s been a real struggle for me personally to pretend like I understand what’s going on when asked about it by family members.
Seeing people close to me get all flustered at the prospect of being “powned” has really put things in perspective for me.
So, it is with a heavy heart that I’ve decided to come clean and tell you all how I’ve been stealing usernames, passwords and credit card numbers from your sites for the past few years.
https://hackernoon.com/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and-passwords-from-your-site-here-s-how-9a8cb347c5b5
