Development – Page 2 – Mike van Riel

Using Jetbrains’ Rider IDE with Unity

Posted on September 1, 2016January 5, 2019 by Mike van Riel

In my daily work I use phpStorm intensively and as such I have become used to the convenience that the IntelliJ family of products give. A little bit of background Aside from my work as PHP Developer ... Read More

Automatically building a Docker Container using Gitlab CI

Posted on August 31, 2016January 5, 2019 by Mike van Riel

Many developers have been with Github for their projects for quite some time. While Github is a truly amazing service it would seem that Gitlab is gaining ground with some pretty amazing fea... Read More

Live templates in phpStorm

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Mike van Riel

For phpDocumentor I have the strict rule to apply a File DocBlock on the top with the necessary legal information such as copyright, license information and where to find the homepage. Anytime I add a... Read More

phpStorm and component-based projects

Posted on March 28, 2012January 5, 2019 by Mike van Riel

For phpDocumentor I sometimes need to edit both a template and the main project in tandem to fix an issue. A sub-optimal solution as it is a clear sign of code coupling yet sometimes your template jus... Read More

DocBlox is unmasked … it is really phpDocumentor 2!

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Mike van Riel

Announcing phpDocumentor 2 — the merging of the old (phpDocumentor) and the new (DocBlox). With the first alpha release of phpDocumentor (2.0.0a1), the new “Responsive” default templ... Read More

Outputting formatted XML using PHP

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Mike van Riel

For an interpreter it doesn’t matter how much whitespace there is in an XML document and often you find that machines strip it all out to reduce the amount of bandwidth used. Often at the receiv... Read More

Pre-commit hook in Git: Running PHPUnit

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Mike van Riel

Pre-commit hooks in git are one of those things you hardly think about but can help you automate tasks and do last-minute checks. A good example of this is running unit tests before commits, to make s... Read More

Multiple types of opening braces when matching pairs with the tokenizer/ext

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Mike van Riel

Whilst I was testing DocBlox on the Solar Framework I found a bug in the part of the application where I match the curly brace pairs of structures (like classes, functions, methods, etc). Every time ... Read More

Introducing: DocBlox

Posted on February 1, 2011January 5, 2019 by Mike van Riel

Ever since I discovered phpDocumentor I have been fascinated by the idea of automatic Documentation Generation. Especially for large projects where an in-depth understanding of the code is a requireme... Read More

phpStorm, a true delight to work with

Posted on May 1, 2010 by Mike van Riel

During my career as a PHP developer (hobbyist and professional) I have tried a multitude of IDEs and tools to write code in. Every IDE I have found thus far did great things but had their downsides. I... Read More

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