Mike van Riel – Page 3 – Code, Design and Quality are glorious when in harmony

phpDocumentor, an update

Posted on October 14, 2014January 5, 2019 by Mike van Riel

In the past month so much has happened! So incredibly much has happened but none of it shows on Github unfortunately. You might be thinking that those phpDocumentor people are slacking while there is ... Read More

I am coaching at WeCamp

Posted on August 1, 2014January 5, 2019 by Mike van Riel

For those of you who do not know WeCamp, it is a camp event where we work in teams of at most 5 people with a coach to create awesome projects in just under a week’s time. What’s so specia... Read More

Which projects have excellent documentation?

Posted on July 12, 2014 by Mike van Riel

I continuously research how to improve the documentation that I write and how others perceive it. But what better way than to step back for a moment and see how others have done it? But surely I am b... 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

SSH Tunneling across multiple hosts in Linux

Posted on June 10, 2011January 5, 2019 by Mike van Riel

Sometimes you need to communicate with a server (or other device) that is not directly accessible from your own computer. If you can reach this server via another server this is not an issue and can b... 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