Code, Design and Quality
are glorious when in harmony
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For my company, Ingewikkeld, we are migrating all our services to run on a series of Droplets at DigitalOcean that together form a cluster of Docker containers. This setup should reduce the costs of all the separate VPS’s that we…
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Using Jetbrains’ Rider IDE with Unity
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 I also create…
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Automatically building a Docker Container using Gitlab CI
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 features. Two features in particular are wonderful when you work…
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Running functional tests in parallel with Codeception
Using functional tests in Codeception you can verify that components within your application work well together and it is perhaps the most worthwhile way to test controllers. The downside of these tests are that they can take a long time to…
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phpDocumentor, an update
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 a crapton of Github issues still…
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I am coaching at WeCamp
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 special…
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Which projects have excellent documentation?
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 biased by now.…
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Live templates in phpStorm
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 new file, I have to…
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phpStorm and component-based projects
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 just relies on a…
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DocBlox is unmasked … it is really phpDocumentor 2!
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 template sports a new page layout, along with the useful layout improvements that the…