Tag: php
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One year ago I blogged about stopping my usage of the -m operator when using Git. I’m now reviewing how this has changed my usage of Git.
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I’ve always said unit test methods do not need docblocks, because the tests will test methods should be descriptive. I lied. Docblocks which describe your test scenario are awesome.
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PHP NorthWest 2017 was the last PHPNW (for now). The conference was important, so it is time to say thank you.
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I need to admit a mistake. I made a mistake in judgement when selecting which games to bring to the WeCamp Game Night.
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I’ve customized my Sculpin a bit more to fit what I want with the blog.
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I talk to a lot of companies and work at quite a few companies as contractor or consultant. Quite often I hear management complain about how hard it is to get good developers, and also that developers leave again after a while. Now, there are many reasons why it can be hard to find the…
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I had sitting in travel not being able to do anything. Listening to music can help, but can end up also being frustrating. While I was working at Schiphol last year I got pointed to podcasts. Since then I’ve been really getting into listening to podcasts on my daily commute and it’s been making the…
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The great thing about the server architectures we have these days is that everything is scalable (if you set it up correctly). The hard thing about the server architectures we have these days is that everything is scalable (if you set it up correctly). Yeah, I know. One of the things you may run into…
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Recently I got an email from someone who was interested in coming to WeCamp, but needed some more information to help convince their manager. I wrote a big email trying to describe WeCamp and our ideas of what WeCamp is (or should be). Since this may actually be useful to more people that want to…
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I recently found myself in a discussion on whether or not exceptions could be used to control program flow in software (specifically in PHP applications). That triggered me to post a tweet: Exceptions should not be used to control expected application flow. Discuss….@skoop This triggered quite a bit of discussion, which gave me a lot…