When I heard about that new Lumen framework, I said "Great, they decided to do something about the poor performance of Laravel".
Lumen advertize itself (frontpage) as "The stunningly fast micro-framework by Laravel." or "a framework dedicated to micro-services".
Yeah, you got it, the proper...
lundi 20 juillet 2015
mardi 26 août 2014
Laravel facades...misuse the term, they are proxies, ok?
The problem with the advent of Laravel and its popularity, is that it teaches wrong ideas to a huge amount of people.
Laravel facades are not facades. They definetely misuse the term.
What Laravel calls facade is just an opaque PHP magic method wrapper.
Said differently they're static proxies...
lundi 18 août 2014
PHP 5.3.29 came out, and it is EOL - End of Life
14 Aug 2014: The PHP development team announces the release of PHP 5.3.29. This release marks the end of life of the PHP 5.3 series.
The thing is: why putting it EOL now, when it is the most widely used version worldwide?
Yes, PHP version 5.3 is since march 2013 the most used version,...
acronym of the day: YAGNI
This is an important principle, as important as it is easy to understand. It stands for "You aren't gonna need it".
Quoting Wikipedia (YAGNI at wikipedia):
You aren't gonna need it" is a principle of extreme programming (XP) that states a programmer should not add functionality until deemed necessary.
I...
vendredi 15 août 2014
Best PHP Frameworks 2014
I am fed up of that kind of post, [21-best-php-frameworks-2014], that you got when searching words like "top 10 php frameworks 2014".
They keep on repeating the same content, rewriting each other, and these are such poor quality advices because in fact they have no clue.
I don't want articles...
jeudi 14 août 2014
We always think the Web is permanent
if you look for this page, titled "A new direction for web applications (link) ", which is a good article that I had in my Evernote, you will find that there are many backlinks to it, but the source disapeared, because the nodejistu account has been deleted.
The solution in that kind...
mercredi 13 août 2014
The Web is Us
Welcome to my discussion on current web trends.
I am sharing here my expertise and interests about web technologies - and my toughts about it.
A tought I had the other day: The Web is us - The Techies
If you always ask "why would I do that?" before following any trend, then we have something in...
