2023-01-08
in PHP
A common aspect of a PHP developer's job is to deal with Composer dependencies. We don't usually need to think about supporting various versions of these dependencies, just as we don't need to think about accommodating a range of PHP versions. Things are different for open-source software maintainers – they need to ensure their libraries will work with as many environments as possible. This post explores one way of automating compatibility testing, using a combination of test coverage and a GitHub workflow.
2022-12-23
in PHP
When you think of command-line applications, PHP doesn't immediately come to mind. Yet the language powers many popular tools, either as independent programs or to be used within projects. This tutorial will walk you through the process of creating a simple game running in the terminal, using Symfony's Console component as a bedrock, GitHub Actions for testing, and Composer for distribution.
2021-06-10
in Productivity
To a large extent, Vim still has a bad rep. This needs to change. But Vim does need a little help to get started, so here's an article explaining the basics, with gifs. The best part? There's probably a Vim extension for your favourite code editor already, so you can start using it today.
2021-11-26
in Laravel
This post is about what to expect from Laravel Sail, how it works and how to make the most of it; it is also a plea to developers to break away from it, in favour of their own, tailored solution.
2023-06-19
in PHP
This article demonstrates how to write integration tests that compare API responses to OpenAPI 3+ definitions in order to validate that the former conform to the latter.
2021-01-11
in PHP
A few weeks ago, GitHub quietly released a feature that was quickly noticed by the community – profile READMEs. A profile README is a global README file for your GitHub profile; in this article, I describe how I've used GitHub Actions and PHP to automatically update my profile README to list my blog's latest publications.
2020-07-14
in PHP
Git hooks are scripts that are run every time a specific Git-related event happens, like a commit or a checkout. This article shows you how to use a simple hook to enforce a coding standard at every commit in a PHP project.
2021-07-11
in DevOps
I hope you enjoyed going through these tutorials as much as I enjoyed writing them, and that you now clearly see how to use Docker to your advantage, and feel comfortable doing so. That being said, you might still feel like some stones are left unturned, so I will try and flip some of them in this conclusion, the same way I used the introduction to try and address some of the concerns you might have had before taking the plunge.
2021-11-25
in DevOps
Once we start to get comfortable around Docker and make it a full component of our development environment, inevitably there will come a time when we have to deal with some form of task scheduling.
2022-02-19
in DevOps
There are many ways to increase an API's responsivity, and one of them which is also the focus of today's article is the use of queues. Queues are basically lists of tasks to be performed at a later time which, unlike flossing, will be completed eventually. What's important about those tasks – called jobs – is that they don't need to be performed during the lifecycle of the initial request.
