I have soft spot for “non traditionally successful people telling you how they were successful even if it might not have specific repeatable advice because the world is neither kind nor fair but god damn it you’ve got to be kind“ confessionals, so I was pleased to see Why All Of Our Games Look Like Crap come across my [...]
astormIt’s hard to ignore React. Facebook and the adjacent React community have turned this open source project into one of the few UI Platforms that can address the entire market of browsers, computers, and mobile devices. You don’t need to use React, but if you ignore it you do so at your own peril. It’s an odd framework [...]
astormThis entry is part 9 of 12 in the series Pestle. Earlier posts include Pestle 1.1.1 Released, Pestle 1.1.2 Released, Magento 2 Setup Migration Scripts, Pestle 1.2.1 Released, Sending Text Messages with PHP, pestle, and Nexmo, Pestle 1.3 and AbstractModel UI Generation, Pestle 1.4.1 and the Merits of Inheritance, and Pestle 1.4.4 [...]
astormThis entry is part 8 of 12 in the series Pestle. Earlier posts include Pestle 1.1.1 Released, Pestle 1.1.2 Released, Magento 2 Setup Migration Scripts, Pestle 1.2.1 Released, Sending Text Messages with PHP, pestle, and Nexmo, Pestle 1.3 and AbstractModel UI Generation, and Pestle 1.4.1 and the Merits of Inheritance. Later posts include [...]
astormThis entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Async Javascript for PHP Programmers. Earlier posts include The Challenges of Asynchronous Grammar, Promises: A Better Asynchronous Grammar, The Practical Problems of Javascript Promises, and Promise State. This is the most recent post in the series. The unstated point of this series was to get us [...]
astormThis entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Async Javascript for PHP Programmers. Earlier posts include The Challenges of Asynchronous Grammar, Promises: A Better Asynchronous Grammar, and The Practical Problems of Javascript Promises. Later posts include What is Async/Await Good For?. Last time we said we’d be reaching the summit of [...]
astormThis entry is part 3 of 5 in the series Async Javascript for PHP Programmers. Earlier posts include The Challenges of Asynchronous Grammar, and Promises: A Better Asynchronous Grammar. Later posts include Promise State, and What is Async/Await Good For?. Last time we took a look at javascript promises. While promises offer us an async [...]
astormOld news to most, new news to me. Gdrive is a command line application written in go that lets you manage your google drive via the command line, including the ability to sync a local folder to your gdrive. Left to my own devices I’ve been a dropbox person for years, but if you’re working in an enviornment where [...]
astormThis entry is part 2 of 5 in the series Async Javascript for PHP Programmers. Earlier posts include The Challenges of Asynchronous Grammar. Later posts include The Practical Problems of Javascript Promises, Promise State, and What is Async/Await Good For?. Last time we discussed some of the challenges with continuation passing style [...]
astormOver the weekend I finished up phase 1 of my project to get better documentation around pestle, my home rolled command-line-framework/Magento 2 code generation tool. Four days ahead of schedule! I’ll be taking a small break to work on some other things, and then picking back with with the next phase, which is documenting pestle [...]
astormPutting aside my feelings on folks opting to distribute information via gists instead of their own websites, this gist from Andrew Levine does a great job summarizing the problems and challenges with efficiently distributing javascript via Magento 2’s standard systems. He includes some of the projects folks use to work around these [...]
astormI was minding my own business when the internet threw these old “Micro Adventure” books in my face, and I was hit with a flood of old memories. Pre “Hunger Games style” YA books, written in the second person, with basic programs interwoven into the ludicrous-to-adults adventure stories. That led me down the [...]
astormToday’s link comes via Process Eight, via my Patreon slack room. It’s slides from a old Magento 2 talk, made prior to the release of Magento 2. The talk itself seems to have been taken offline. The code generation the slides refers to is Magento’s automatic code generation that happens behind the scenes when you use a [...]
astormThis entry is part 1 of 5 in the series Async Javascript for PHP Programmers. Later posts include Promises: A Better Asynchronous Grammar, The Practical Problems of Javascript Promises, Promise State, and What is Async/Await Good For?. I put it off for as long as I could, but “modern” javascript finally caught up with me. [...]
astormBack when I still had some hope Magento 2 would be the same sort of open-source-for-everyone platform that Magento 1 was, and I was working my way through writing the Magento 2 for PHP MVC Developers series, I was simultaneously developing pestle, my command line tool for generating Magento 2 modules. As time went on I realized the [...]
astormWhenever a company releases something that’s crazy expensive (like Apple’s new starting-at $6,000 MacPro, $5,000 monitor, and $1,000 monitor stand), I think of this almost 30 year old marketing strategy video from Steve Jobs recoded during his NeXT computer days. This was one of those of those random videos that changed how I [...]
astormThe Portland Business journal has a short story on the local (Portland, OR) Treehouse layoffs. This quote jumped out at me. However, [Ryan] Carson said the company has learned that the $25-a-month product is not “the most effective way to empower people to get jobs in tech in the future.” Which — doesn’t surprise [...]
astormOne of the challenges in learning PHP’s C based internal APIs is finding clear and clean examples to learn from. The C extensions that ship with PHP and pecl are old, often worked on over the years by multiple engineers with no single coding style, and contain all sorts of — let’s call it pragmatic and clever macro BS [...]
astormI’m working my way through the TypeScript manual and pleasantly surprised to find really good tech writing. So far it’s clearly written and follows the “introduce a concept, here’s some code to backup that concept, talk about the concept again to reenforce” pattern I prefer in my own writing. The tone also [...]
astormThis entry is part 7 of 7 in the series Sylius for Magento and PHP Developers. Earlier posts include Five First Impressions of the Sylius eCommerce System, Symfony's Service Container, Symfony: Autowiring Services, A Brief Look at Every Symfony Service Configuration, Symfony Routes and Stand Alone Controllers, and Symfony Routing [...]
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