Speaking of composer and sematnic versioning, here’s a neat web page that will List all the avaiable versions of a particular packagist package Highlight which versions composer will pick when you use a particular set of SemVer characters Useful when you’re chasing down composer dependencies — although this project (as [...]
astormI checked some code into pestle (my PHP command-line framework and Magento 2 code generation tool) for the first time in a bit, and was greeted with a broken travis build (for PHP 5.6). Digging into the problem, I saw a sight that’s become increasingly familiar to PHP developers in recent years $ composer install Loading composer [...]
astormWhile Laravel’s a fantastic framework, I don’t think anyone would ascribe Plays Well with Others as a core tennant of the project. i.e. Using individual Laravel components like the Eloquent ORM in your own projects is never a straight forward affair. They’re just not designed for that use case. This makes projects like [...]
astormOn of my work hobbies is finding a way to replace Dominant Accounting Software package in my life, and because I’m a programmer (and a little weird) that means writing one off applications to repace the functionality of Dominant Accounting Software package. This is why today’s links are the wikipedia PostScript page and [...]
astormGNU Make is the original build system and, strange modern outliers asside, is mostly used (and useful) in C or C++ based projects. It’s syntax reflects 40+ years of — organic? — growth, and I was happy to discover this free O’Reilly book that grounds you in the fundamental concepts.
astormMagento developer of note Daniel Sloof recently tweeted about the open sourcing (MIT) of — his? his company’s — Magento 2 Clean Checkout extension Breaking a couple months silence to bring you guys an early christmas gift: https://t.co/dIi6J9mLx0 A drop-in replacement for #Magento2 Checkout. Commercial project turned [...]
astormComing at C from a “test legacy code first” point of view is tricky. All those neat test framework features for testing code not written under test (i.e. mocks, etc.) rely on a language’s dynamic nature for implementation details. You don’t get that easily in C, so it was a pleasure to be introduced to the cmocka framework. [...]
astormI’m not sure if the talks (i.e. videos) from the recent MageTestFest conference will show up online, but these slides from Vinai Kopp are worth a link, if only because they capture most of the weird, non-obvious incantations you’ll need to run Magento 2’s unit and integration tests.
astormYou can’t walk ten steps in this businesses without hearing Engineering is a set of tradeoffs. You rarely hear the other side of that: and sometimes we make the wrong tradeoffs which lead to living with garbage behavior for years. PHP leaks memory like a sieve. By leak we mean during a long running PHP request the amount of memory [...]
astormCampaigning season’s winding down, which means conference season is upon us. Two years after release, Magento’s XML/PHP/HTML/Javascript/KnockoutJS based UI Component System continues to be a topic of regular dissection and drubbing. At the recent Mage Titans conference in Manchester Maria Kern gave a well regarded talk on [...]
astormThis one came out of a conversation in my Patreon mentoring Slack room. Someone was having trouble with their Magento 2 object manager configurations (di.xml) not showing up — but only during checkout. Their problem? They were dropping their di.xml files into the frontend folder etc/frontend/di.xml This is good enough to get class [...]
astormMy career’s headed down the other end of the Stack these days, so caveat-ihaventusedit-emptor, but based on pedigre alone this WordPress+React starter kit seems worth checking out.
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