I’m not going into why you should use IRC here as that’s a full blog-post in it’s own. Just so much: When you’re doing OSS development then there is almost no ways around IRC.
But IRC in itself has had some major drawbacks for myself:
PHAR-files are a great way to bundle code that can then be used like a binary. Therefore PHAR-files are often used for tools that can be included in a CI/CD setup. As they are self-contained archives they use their own autoloading mechanism and therefore don’t depend on your code. Which is great if you want to use them as build-tools because the tools dependencies don’t interfere with your project dependencies.
Imagine you’d want to use a build tool that requires PHP 7.2 with your legacy code that still needs to run with PHP 5.6… Most probably your composer require --dev awesome/build-tool would not work because of a dependency mismatch. Even though you might be on PHP 7.2 at the moment. Using the PHAR-file removes that dependency as all the required files are contained within the archive. And the PHARs autoloader takes care of getting the right files.
Today I had to execute a function everytime I appended content to an HTML-Document. Easy thing, you’d say: Add the function right after appending the stuff to the DOM…
Continue reading Adding custom events to jQuery-Functions
The other day I had to find a way to output relative dates. So instead of a localized version of “on the 19th of December 2017 at 16:24 the User x did Y” the requirement was to say “3 minutes ago the User X did Y” (or “last Wednesday at 16:24 the User X did Y”… you get the picture).
Challenge accepted!
Recently there was a discussion on the php-usergroup slack about Exceptions and whether they should have DateTime information available or not.And that brought me to write down my personal ideas on what I think an Exception is.
First of all, an Exception is not for the user but for the code. Have a look at this piece of code:
Continue reading On Exceptions
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