In this blog post we'll discuss my preferred way of building and structurizing API's (including the authorization) in the popular PHP framework; Laravel.
Recently I had the opportunity to work on the 'darker side' of a codebase. It was a system that contained a bunch of hacks to make it cope with the ever-changing requirements from business, but which never had the chance to properly adapt to these...
As a follow up of my previous blog post, I wanted to dive a bit more into the aspect of improving skills as a developer. To do this I would like to take you on a journey to learn about the differences between composition and...
Not too long ago I ran into a bug that was caused by a piece of code having access to (and modifying) a variable that was referenced in a static cache (basically a static array property, storing objects). Without going too much into detail (I...
In this blog post I will describe my personal experience with writing testable code. We will go over a few specific anti-patterns that have a negative impact on the testability of your code. Per anti-pattern we'll describe how to recognize it and how you can...
