Category: PHP

I made a script to easily take consistent measurements using Apache Benchmark. It includes an easy way to compare multiple measurements in a visual way. Read more

This talk by Kevlin Henney looks at how a handful of coding habits, design practices and assumptions can systematically balloon code and compound its accidental complexity.

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Using else often encourages complexer code structure, makes code less readable. In most cases you can refactor it using early returns.

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Let’s improve your users privacy with file encryption without using any 3rd party packages. Read more

I hope you won’t run into any of these. Read more

Here’s an exhaustive list of all the tools Jeffrey Way uses in his daily workflow at Laracasts. Read more

The use of a message envelope has many benefits for the design of your application. It allows you to carry system information, nicely separated from domain information, in a generic way. Read more

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Have you ever needed to maintain a project that wasn't yours? A project that, when you first opened it, gave you chills down your spine? Even without reading the code in detail, you could already tell it was a mess.

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Obviously you shouldn’t to this, but it’s kinda cool that it works. Read more

Getting started with testing is not that hard. Here’s a free video taken from the Testing Laravel course that will show you how you can make sure you homepage works. Read more