There’s a famous saying that two of the hardest problems in computer science are cache invalidation and naming things. When it comes to defining standards, there’s no cache involved, but there is a lot of naming of things. It should come as no surprise, but I recently was shocked to see that the folks who create […]
One of the features in “advanced” PHP you come across is Late Static Binding. There are two things that make this feature very interesting: It is remarkably useful It is extremely poorly explained in the official docs So if you’ve heard of this term the first-time, or like me, have lost a few hair over what […]
Imagine a million transactions a month. Okay, 10 million. Assuming it’s a company that sells products, and the typical order size is $50, we’re talking of $500 million in monthly revenue. Or $6 billion annual. That’s big deal. Very few businesses reach that level. Now, also asuume that the order flow is evenly distributed during […]
The biggest hurdle to your improvement as a software developer are your biases. The idea that React/Angular/Vue/Backbone are somehow superior to other alternatives; the idea that Python is a much more robust web development language than PHP; the idea that PostgreSQL is the only sensible relational database out there; the idea that nothing matches the […]
Recently, in a phone interview for a remote positions, this post of mine was called out by the interviewer. His comment was, more or less, that it was stupid to worry about the number of controller in an MVC application. He said that putting logic in controller is a very bad practice, and that I should […]
These days, startups have a charm that only Paris can rival. They are painted as the far-off, blessed lands where creativity, money, and benefits are flowing freely, and no conformity exists. If you’re a developer, you have dreamed of working for a startup at least once already. Well, sometimes it’s not a good idea. Please […]
(Sorry I’m in a real hurry as I write this. I’ll expand on this later, but today I figured out how to correctly set up October CMS through composer. Hope this helps somebody.) (To-do: A post on why care about October CMS) $ composer create-project october/october myapp $ cd myapp $ php artisan october:env $ […]
If you’re a progressive software developer and do not spend a few hours worrying about which tech stack to choose next, you’re lying. We all do it. In fact, combined with the famous Impostor Syndrome, this constant anxiety is enough to break anyone’s back. Laravel or Symfony? Node or Go? React or Angular? Ember or […]
Controllers are the life and blood of a Laravel application. It’s impossible to imagine a framework without them (well, it is, but technically something has to receive the route action, and whether it’s a class or function, it becomes a controller, so to speak). In the last 3-4 years of my development experience, I went […]
Even a cursory survey of skills (try LinkedIn) will tell you that a huge percentage of Laravel developers end up learning Node.js. The skills list goes something like this: “LAMP, Laravel, Ionic, Node, Full Stack Developer”. And it’s not just beginners bragging about their skill-set, mind you; I’ve met serious architects who passionately love Laravel and […]