Reading Time: < 1 minutes In October this year, I gave two talks at the International PHP Conference in Munich. I’m pleased that my talk “Coding against climate change” was picked as the keynote on Wednesday. This is a very Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes I’m delighted to share that I published my very first article “Frameworkless – Weniger ist manchmal mehr” (Frameworkless – Sometimes less is more) in the August/September digital issue of the renowned German “PHP Magazin”! It’s Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes My first talk on the International PHP Conference 2021 about “Frameworkless” – building PHP applications without a framework. Read More …
Reading Time: 7 minutes With the release of PHP 8, it’s time to look at some good old habits like Getters, Setters and DocBlocks and reduce boilerplate code. Read More …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Xdebug is a cool PHP debugger, but it can seriously slow down code execution. Learn how to easily toggle xdebug on and off in your local docker environment. Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes http-helper and config, two recent PHP composer packages of mine, have just reached stable state a few days ago. http-helper is there to help you debugging http requests and responses. It is purely for development purposes Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Just a quick one today: when you struggle with writing Acceptance Tests for file uploads using PhantomJS (will version 2.5 ever come out? *sigh*), here are two possible solutions for you. File inputs are ugly, Read More …
Reading Time: 3 minutes One new feature of Laravel 5.4 are so-called “Automatic Facades”. My colleague was expecting my reaction when he sends me the link to the blog entry announcing this feature (I’m not linking it intentionally) with Read More …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Say we use a DI container directly, i.e. via functions like get() or make(), how do we achieve proper IDE support? For example I create a class instance the usual way and I want to Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes PhpStorm comes with a handy phpunit test runner, which lets you execute your tests with just one click. Even better: if a test fails, you can just run that test also with just one click. Read More …
