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About a year back I decided I had to change my development environment from working on a remote server with a simple text editor to something more solid, if I wanted to do serious PHP development. I...
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About a year back I decided I had to change my development environment from working on a remote server with a simple text editor to something more solid, if I wanted to do serious PHP development. I...
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MediaWiki testing with PHPUnit
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In this post I share 5 easy ways to write better mocks that I picked up over the years. These will help you write tests that break less, are easier to read, are more IDE friendly, and are easier to...
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I T.A.K.E. 2016
Last week I attended the I T.A.K.E. unconference in Bucharest. This unconference is about software development, and has tracks such as code quality, DevOps, craftsmanship, microservices and leadership....
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Last week I attended the 2016 edition of the PHP Unconference Europe, taking place in Palma De Mallorca. This post contains my notes from various conference sessions. Be warned, some of them are quite...
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I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of FileFetcher 4.0.0. FileFecther is a small PHP library that provides an OO way to retrieve the contents of files. What’s OO about such an interface?...
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Initially I started creating a general post about PHP Generators, a feature introduced in PHP 5.5. However since I keep failing to come up with good examples for some cool ways to use Generators, I...
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Clean Architecture: UseCase tests
When creating an application that follows The Clean Architecture you end up with a number of UseCases that hold your application logic. In this blog post I outline a testing pattern for effectively...
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Advice for junior developers
Over the 15+ years of my development career, I have learned several things that significantly increase my effectiveness. In this post, I share those learnings with you. Structure: Generic Advice —...
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