If you mock, are you even testing?
Have you ever felt like you’re making the code harder to read for the sake of testing?
Imagine, you have this existing code and it’s not tested. It does a bunch of side-effects. People say you should put that code under tests before touching it.
Have you ever felt like you’re making the code harder to read for the sake of testing?
Imagine, you have this existing code and it’s not tested. It does a bunch of side-effects. People say you should put that code under tests before touching it.
June 26, 2020
We create our database of articles
We think that it is not right to tell you what to read and what not, because different developers interest different things and they have a different level of knowledge. We created a simple project that allows you to search articles and never lose them.
Everyday we add a lot of new and useful articles for you. We hope you'll like it and we open for your feedback.
We think that it is not right to tell you what to read and what not, because different developers interest different things and they have a different level of knowledge. We created a simple project that allows you to search articles and never lose them.
Everyday we add a lot of new and useful articles for you. We hope you'll like it and we open for your feedback.
July 3, 2020
7 Best Courses to Master Git and Github for Programmers
These are the best courses to learn Git from scratch and also advanced concepts like branching and merging. It also includes a free course to learn git
These are the best courses to learn Git from scratch and also advanced concepts like branching and merging. It also includes a free course to learn git
July 8, 2020
Software Complexity: Naming
Good writing is hard. But why? Because good writing is about good reading. We tend to focus on the former and forget the latter. We forget that code is written only once, but read many times.
Good writing is hard. But why? Because good writing is about good reading. We tend to focus on the former and forget the latter. We forget that code is written only once, but read many times.
July 27, 2020
Everything you need (and don't need) to know about PHP's type system
PHP is a dynamically typed scripting language and until the year of 2015 php had no support for statically declared types at all. One could cast to scalar types explicitly in the code, but declaring scalar types in methods and functions signatures wasn't a thing until PHP 7.0 with the Scalar Type Declarations and Return Type Declarations rfcs.
PHP is a dynamically typed scripting language and until the year of 2015 php had no support for statically declared types at all. One could cast to scalar types explicitly in the code, but declaring scalar types in methods and functions signatures wasn't a thing until PHP 7.0 with the Scalar Type Declarations and Return Type Declarations rfcs.
August 5, 2020
Enhancements to PHP code coverage in 2020
In 2003, with the release of Xdebug 1.2, Derick Rethans introduced the ability to collect code coverage data to the PHP ecosystem for the first time. In 2004, with the release of PHPUnit 2, Sebastian Bergmann made the first real use of this new power by allowing developers to evaluate the effectiveness of their test suites by generating coverage reports.
In 2003, with the release of Xdebug 1.2, Derick Rethans introduced the ability to collect code coverage data to the PHP ecosystem for the first time. In 2004, with the release of PHPUnit 2, Sebastian Bergmann made the first real use of this new power by allowing developers to evaluate the effectiveness of their test suites by generating coverage reports.
August 5, 2020
Clean Code (Robert C. Martin)
Noted software expert Robert C. Martin presents a revolutionary paradigm with "Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship." Martin has teamed up with his colleagues from Object Mentor to distill their best agile practice of cleaning code "on the fly" into a book that will instill within you the values of a software craftsman and make you a better programmer--but only if you work at it.
Noted software expert Robert C. Martin presents a revolutionary paradigm with "Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship." Martin has teamed up with his colleagues from Object Mentor to distill their best agile practice of cleaning code "on the fly" into a book that will instill within you the values of a software craftsman and make you a better programmer--but only if you work at it.
August 7, 2020
Modernizing a Legacy PHP Application
Recently, I had the occasion to work on numerous legacy PHP applications. I spotted common anti-patterns that I had to fix. This article is not about rewriting an old PHP application to <insert shiny framework name here>, but about how to make it more maintainable and less of a hassle to work on.
Recently, I had the occasion to work on numerous legacy PHP applications. I spotted common anti-patterns that I had to fix. This article is not about rewriting an old PHP application to <insert shiny framework name here>, but about how to make it more maintainable and less of a hassle to work on.
August 17, 2020
Testing Microservices in PHP with Codeception
Not all PHP applications can be developed as a monolith.
An application grows, as well as the engineering team around it, and at some point, in order to keep things consistent, a decision is made to split the application into microservices.
Not all PHP applications can be developed as a monolith.
An application grows, as well as the engineering team around it, and at some point, in order to keep things consistent, a decision is made to split the application into microservices.
August 17, 2020
Common Security Mistakes in Laravel Applications (book)
Most of the time security vulnerabilities are only the result of lack of awareness, not negligence. While we find that the majority of developers deeply care about security, sometimes they do not realize how a particular code pattern can lead to a vulnerability, so in the e-book, we decided to share most common security issues that we saw during many years of helping different startups to secure their Laravel applications. With every attack vector, we also will show best practices on how to protect your application from the attack. We hope you find the information useful for you and your dev team.
Most of the time security vulnerabilities are only the result of lack of awareness, not negligence. While we find that the majority of developers deeply care about security, sometimes they do not realize how a particular code pattern can lead to a vulnerability, so in the e-book, we decided to share most common security issues that we saw during many years of helping different startups to secure their Laravel applications. With every attack vector, we also will show best practices on how to protect your application from the attack. We hope you find the information useful for you and your dev team.
September 10, 2020
A decoupled PHP architecture inspired by the Clean Architecture
I feel like I should address that the architecture I’m about to present already existed when I arrived at Arquivei, almost two years ago and didn’t change much since. I didn’t create it, but I did learn a lot from it. Hopefully, you will too.
I feel like I should address that the architecture I’m about to present already existed when I arrived at Arquivei, almost two years ago and didn’t change much since. I didn’t create it, but I did learn a lot from it. Hopefully, you will too.
September 10, 2020
September 10, 2020
A simple recipe for framework decoupling
If you want to write applications that are maintainable in the long run, you have to decouple from your framework, ORM, HTTP client, etc. because your application will outlive all of them.
If you want to write applications that are maintainable in the long run, you have to decouple from your framework, ORM, HTTP client, etc. because your application will outlive all of them.
September 21, 2020
Performance Impact of PHP Exceptions
Exceptions in programming languages provide a way for the application code to raise and handle exceptional situations, and PHP language is not an exception.
Exceptions in programming languages provide a way for the application code to raise and handle exceptional situations, and PHP language is not an exception.
September 23, 2020
Refactoring PHP
Refactoring is the process of modifying and restructuring code without changing its functionality. When I first heard about it, I was like: Why would anyone do that? It took some years until I fully understood the concept and that the working code is not always good. So with refactoring, you can make working code better, and what better means is something developers will argue for hours. In the end, you have to define it for yourself.
Refactoring is the process of modifying and restructuring code without changing its functionality. When I first heard about it, I was like: Why would anyone do that? It took some years until I fully understood the concept and that the working code is not always good. So with refactoring, you can make working code better, and what better means is something developers will argue for hours. In the end, you have to define it for yourself.
September 25, 2020
SOLID in PHP
What is SOLID?
It is a set of principles to have good software design practices compiled by Uncle Bob.
What is SOLID?
It is a set of principles to have good software design practices compiled by Uncle Bob.
September 26, 2020
Writing better Controllers
Controllers are a very important part of our software. In desktop apps, they coordinate the application, receiving, parsing and storing data, they perform the business logic and bidirectionally communicate with the view. However, when it comes to web applications they are the entrypoint, which means they play a different role than in desktop apps. In this post we’ll look at how writing controllers differently will lead our code to be more flexible, readable and easy to change.
Controllers are a very important part of our software. In desktop apps, they coordinate the application, receiving, parsing and storing data, they perform the business logic and bidirectionally communicate with the view. However, when it comes to web applications they are the entrypoint, which means they play a different role than in desktop apps. In this post we’ll look at how writing controllers differently will lead our code to be more flexible, readable and easy to change.
October 3, 2020
How Static Methods Kill You Like Corona
It's September here, and many of friends walked their children to the school. Some for the first time in their life. Everyone is very cautious because it takes precisely 1 corona-infected child, parent, or teacher to spread to another person very effectively.
It's September here, and many of friends walked their children to the school. Some for the first time in their life. Everyone is very cautious because it takes precisely 1 corona-infected child, parent, or teacher to spread to another person very effectively.
October 5, 2020
Running Laravel on DigitalOcean's App Platform
Today DigitalOcean App Platform entered general availability and they offer support for PHP/Laravel apps out of the box. Read on for a deep dive and explore the pros and cons of DigitalOcean's new app platform with me.
Today DigitalOcean App Platform entered general availability and they offer support for PHP/Laravel apps out of the box. Read on for a deep dive and explore the pros and cons of DigitalOcean's new app platform with me.
October 18, 2020
Profiling PHP Applications with Xdebug | Rawkode Live
In this episode, joined by Derick Rethans, we take a look at Xdebug and how it help you profile your PHP applications, allowing you to use a profiling front-end, like qcachegrind, to visualise your call graphs and dig into the bottlenecks of your applications.
In this episode, joined by Derick Rethans, we take a look at Xdebug and how it help you profile your PHP applications, allowing you to use a profiling front-end, like qcachegrind, to visualise your call graphs and dig into the bottlenecks of your applications.
October 18, 2020
Clean Code PHP
Software engineering principles, from Robert C. Martin's book Clean Code, adapted for PHP. This is not a style guide. It's a guide to producing readable, reusable, and refactorable software in PHP.
Not every principle herein has to be strictly followed, and even fewer will be universally agreed upon. These are guidelines and nothing more, but they are ones codified over many years of collective experience by the authors of Clean Code.
Software engineering principles, from Robert C. Martin's book Clean Code, adapted for PHP. This is not a style guide. It's a guide to producing readable, reusable, and refactorable software in PHP.
Not every principle herein has to be strictly followed, and even fewer will be universally agreed upon. These are guidelines and nothing more, but they are ones codified over many years of collective experience by the authors of Clean Code.
October 18, 2020