Who is this article for? This post is for people that do day-by-day busywork coding, and for team leads that want to direct their peers towards better logging practices. Note that this article comes from my regular need to present these exact points to different people, multiple times a year, in mul...

I'm back! The last time I blogged was in 2017: a lot has changed since then, and after a decade of ignoring blogging, I will attempt to put some regularity into it again. The times call for it: having a personal space that is really "our own" is extremely important, and it is as important as having ...

Roave's BetterReflection 2.0.0s was released today! I and James Titcumb started working on this project back in 2015, and it is a pleasure to see it reaching maturity. The initial idea was simple: James would implement all my wicked ideas, while I would lay back and get drunk on Drambuie. Yes, that ...

Today we're talking about Visual debt in our code. As an introduction, I suggest to watch this short tutorial about visual debt by @jeffrey_way. The concept is simple: let's take the example from Laracasts and re-visit the steps taken to remove visual debt. interface EventInterface { public function...

I've been using a YubiKey Neo for a bit over two years now, but its usage was limited to 2FA and U2F. Last week, I received my new DELL XPS 15 9560, and since I am maintaining some high impact open source projects, I wanted the setup to be well secured. In addition to that, I caught a bad flu, and t...

Some time ago, I was asked where I put I/O operations when dealing with aggregates. The context was a CQRS and Event Sourced architecture, but in general, the approach that I prefer also applies to most imperative ORM entity code (assuming a proper data-mapper is involved). Scenario Let's use a prac...

ProxyManager 2.0.0 was finally released today! It took a bit more than a year to get here, but major improvements were included in this release, along with exclusive PHP 7 support. Most of the features that we planned to provide were indeed implemented into this release. As a negative note, HHVM com...

PRE-REQUISITE: Please note that this article explains complexity in internal ORM operations with the Big-O notation. Consider reading this article, if you are not familiar with the Big-O syntax. What is hydration? Doctrine ORM, like most ORMs, is performing a process called Hydration when converting...

TL;DR: Make your classes always final, if they implement an interface, and no other public methods are defined In the last month, I had a few discussions about the usage of the final marker on PHP classes. The pattern is recurrent: I ask for a newly introduced class to be declared as final the autho...

Today I finally released version 1.0.0 of the ProxyManager Noticeable improvements since 0.5.2: Windows path length limitations are now mitigated Proxy classes are now re-generated when the library version changes Documentation has been moved to github pages (Markdown documentation will be kept in s...

Since it's almost christmas, it's also time to release a new project! The Roave Team is pleased to announce the release of roave/security-advisories, a package that keeps known security issues out of your project. Before telling you more, go grab it: mkdir roave-security-advisories-test cd roave-sec...