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!…
Category: Programming
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…
HOW TO: Laravel testing on Gitlab CI with Docker
This is just a quick mini-post sharing some of the nice stuff that I’ve done with my co-worker, Kheng Hui, while I was working on an A*STAR project. The project used Laravel 5.3 with PHP 7 and MySQL, and needed…
#PHPConfAsia It’s a wrap
PHPConfAsia Thoughts And More
The conference was just over and I’m already missing the fun times I had there. It was three days of fun and excitement; learning tons of things from the speakers – their experience, knowledge and most…PHP Tutorial: OOP
We have covered on the basics of PHP and its fundamental concepts. Now, let’s move on to the concept of Objected-Oriented in PHP. In this article, I’ll be covering briefly on the concept of OOP and an in-depth analysis of…
Singapore AWSUG November Meetup
Last week, my friend, Metilda, and I went for a Amazon Web Service User Group (AWSUG) meetup. It was a pretty enjoyable experience and AWS presented on their latest update – Internet of Things SDK.
Selfie was taken with…
Installing Laravel 5 on Fedora
So I’ve encountered some issues with installing Laravel 5 on Fedora and finally resolved all of them. I have decided to make this blog post just for you so that I can share the knowledge and experience I have gained…
Another Great Experience
Howdy everyone,
It’s been a really tedious but fun 2 weeks for me. My team and I participated in the Singapore Airlines (SIA) app challenge 2015. The top prize was a tech-trip to silicon valley, fully sponsored by SIA. Oh…