PHP News For September 2019
Here’s a condensed list of things that happened in PHP world during September.
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PHP News For August 2019
Here’s a condensed list of things that happened in PHP world during August.
PHP 7.1.31, 7.2.21, 7.3.8 Released
Earlier this month, PHP team announced the availability of PHP 7.1.31, 7.2.21, 7.3.8. Please note that PHP 7.1 is on security fixes…Cloudfoundry SSH with environment
The default cf ssh without parameters allows users to access their containers or virtual machine just fine. However, there are limitations to this.
In PHP buildpacks, the default SSH will not load dynamic libraries such as curl. The following commands…
Blue-green Laravel deployment to Pivotal Cloudfoundry
This post shows how I do blue-green deployment of my Laravel project, that has a queue runner, through GitLab CI onto Pivotal Cloudfoundry. You’ll need to know some basics of GitLab CI, Laravel and Pivotal Cloudfoundry to better understand this…
PHP 7.3 will have improved performance
The latest PHP 7.3 has introduced several core changes and deprecation of functionalities. One of the most important change is that the cyclic Garbage Collector has been enhanced. This may result in considerable performance improvements for your average PHP site.…
Observable Error Handling
So I’ve been using NGRX, a redux library for Angular 2+, for managing my states for my personal angular projects. Its pretty great and allows you to easily scaffold your effects and reducers.
An observable stream ends off or dies…
PHP Asia Conference 2018 Is Back
Hey all!
I’m excited to tell all of you something! PHP Asia Conference is back for this year! I’ve attended it in 2016 as a speaker and it was amazing. If you’ve not read my 2016 blog post, you should!…
PHP 7.2 Gotcha: mcrypt
Unrelated picture but I thought it was funny since Pulau Ubin is just a small island in Singapore which can only be reached via boats.
PHP 7.2 introduces new features and remove several things. One of the things that caught…
Prioritizing atomicity over consistency of CRUD
Today, I learnt about balancing and managing yet another engineering trade-off about APIs. To achieve a glory of REST, we would need to take a look at Richardson’s Maturity Model.
Richardson’s Maturity Model
Essentially, to achieve the glory of REST,…Acceptance/integration tests only…?
I came into this thinking initially when I read the late Pieter Hintjen’s books. He was against numbers/coverage percentage and said that testing should be focused on APIs. This ensures that the components that works and ignores how individual components…