The life of a maintainer (and generally any back-end engineer) - if your existence is acknowledged, something's probably gone wrong! I feel you, @jrf_nl
Thank you to all of the package maintainers out there 💕
One thing that’s funny about #ai and #programming is I keep hearing the same thing. “Oh I use it for generic snippets, just common tasks and functions”.
The amusing thing about that is when I first started working with a #php app years ago there was already a solution to that problem. It was called “the PHP Cookbook” published by O’Reilly. I was told “oh we buy you a PDF copy and you just search for whatever you are trying to do and use that code. It saves a ton of time for junior programmers.”
Not only was it true, it did save me a ton of time and headaches, but we didn’t need to steal anything. The authors got paid, it worked offline, it didn’t require scraping the entirety of human knowledge to write or nuclear power plants worth of energy to distribute.
It also helped me learn. Since I would have a solid foundation to the solution, I felt more confident experimenting. I always had a known-functioning standard library solution as my base. So when something broke I knew where to start debugging.
Just an incredible thought that instead of paying $20 for a pdf once we decided this was the way to go.
phpDocumentor 3.5 is here! With better Guides support and now fully functional RST! Automatic generated class diagrams by querying your code base and much more!
It boils my blood to hear folks insinuate that #PHP is the source of their performance problems and they should switch to microservices in another language to fix the performance issues. Maybe spend a little bit of time figuring out where your bottlenecks are and fix those, first!
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I'm offering a FREE copy of my book, Mastering Object-Oriented PHP, to all members of the #php community. It's my way of giving back. Grab your copy at https://masteringobjectorientedphp.com today.
#PHP 8.4 introducing "Property Hooks". This means you will be able to hook into the default read and write behavior of your class properties. The design also allows for more hooks in the future. Really looking forward to this one!
#PHP foreach() works on arrays and objects. On objects, it skips uninitialized properties, which may be very convenient with readonly properties : otherwise, it is a fatal error!
I found myself needing to write tests for code that throw an exception with domain-specific information. I actually need access to the exception thrown in my test. So, I created a testing utility that will do just that.
I probably get flooded by asking this but welp, here I go:
I'm looking for a good, visual (!) #tutorial for #WebDevelopment that focuses on Codium, Firefox and other Open-Source tools. My specific interests are to learn #HTML, #CSS, #PHP and #SQL. Perhaps some minor #Javascript, however I'd like to primarily work without it.
I'm a visual learner, extended theory in text won't help me at all. As language is visual to me, so is #programming.