Array destructuring in PHP
In my day to day job I write in a number of programming languages. The majority of my time is spent writing PHP but I very »
Being in control of time in PHP
When developers talk about the infrastructural boundaries or external dependencies they often talk about databases and third-party integration. They're the first thing we'll put behind an »
Regaining trust in your test suite with Docker.
Docker, and containerised services in general, have brought a lot to the world of software development. While not everybody is (or ever should be) using docker »
Partitioning for concurrency in synchronous business processes.
WARNING: There will be a total of 3 GIF's in this article. If that's too much for you to handle I invite you to stop reading. »
Battle Log: Symfony Routing performance considerations.
Last week I took a deep dive into Symfony's Routing Component. A project I worked on suffered from a huge performance penalty caused by a routing »
Finally, file streams, and deferred execution in PHP.
Cleaning up after yourself can be a tedious task. For example, closing file handlers after using them needs to be done. A programmer's life isn't all »
Pipelines, immutability and privates.
A recent addition to the PHP League was the pipeline package, which allows you to compose sequential operations. One of the key aspects of the pipeline »
Packages vs. Components: The Dependency Problem.
The PHP landscape has fully transitioned into its Package Age™. Packagist is the main resource for retrieving new PHP packages: most frameworks split out packages from »
Rendering ReactJS templates server-side.
The last couple of months I've been working with ReactJS quite extensively. It's been a very rewarding and insightful journey. There is, however, one part that »