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Sauber PHP
I have used a lot of different frameworks in my career, from Zend(Laminas) to Yii, Cake to Codeignitor, SlimPHP to Laravel and more. They all have their own way...
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Building a CLI application in 2022
I have been building CLI apps for a long time, from simple bash/perl scripts back when I was a System Admin - and now using things like PHP Go or Rust.
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Laravel DDD - Getting started with DDD in Laravel
In a typical Laravel application we are very used to doing things in a certain way, by the book as they say. However there comes a point in the applications lif...
Glimpse
Glimpse streamlines Laravel development by seamlessly deploying GitHub pull requests to preview environments with the help of Laravel Forge.
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Adapter Pattern
Of all of the design patterns you could use in your code, the adapter pattern is one of my all time favourites. It allows you to abstract the implementation to...
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Testing API responses in pestPHP
I get asked about API response testing a lot, how should you do it, and where to start. I have a general rule when it comes to testing APIs, and that rule is: “...
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Introducing - Laravel Transporter
Sending API requests in any PHP framework has always been a little bit of a manual process, yes you can create an SDK or wrapper - but you are still having to d...
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Laravel DDD - Querying Records in our Domain
In the last instalment we spoke about using a simplified version of the CQRS pattern to create commands. This time we are going to talk about the other side to...
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Laravel DDD - Starting our Domain Code; Data Objects and Factories
In our previous blog post we set up our Laravel application to use Domain Driven Design, and we did this in a way that would let us expand and add new domains a...
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Laravel DDD - Routing within our Domain
In a normal Laravel application we store all of our routes within web.php or api.php typically, however how does this work with our Domain Driven Design approac...
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Working with third party services in Laravel
I have been working with 3rd party APIs for longer than I care to admit, over time I have found a few ways that work nicely for me. In particular when working w...
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Adventures in PHP - PHP SDK Builder
I have been working with 3rd party APIs for a very long time. Each time I usually either pull in their SDK, if there is one available, or I build a wrapper arou...
CodeMentor
Codementor is an online marketplace connecting developers with experts for on- demand 1:1 help via screen sharing, video, and text chat.
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Quick Look into Laravel Feature Flags
Not that long ago I published my latest package, Laravel Feature Flags, which is a simple to use feature flag implementation for Laravel.
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Laravel DDD - Using Data Objects; Domain Commands
In our last instalment we spoke about how we can use data objects and data object factories to escape what I call “array hell”, a place where we have no idea wh...
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Embracing PSRs to build an interoperable Http Client
Recently I have been scratching my head over PSR-18. As a new PSR there isn’t a lot of information around it, but I saw that as a challenge. I decided to accept...
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Adventures in PHP - PHP URI Builder
I would like to announce my latest package uri-builder which is a fluent interface for building a URI string. Now, it might sound simple - and you might wonder...