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Consumers have a certain amount of upgrade fatigue. It’s not uncommon for end users to ignore an update notification for months to avoid the frustration that comes with trying to fix something that worked before the update.
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ES6 gave us classes and object inheritance in JavaScript. However, it’s still missing any concept of “privacy” in OO terms. Here’s a hacky workaround to, maybe, make things work.
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Testing code that leverages random numbers can be tricky. It’s useful to have a way to subvert the random number generator during tests to yield a deterministic state.
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Some operations in PHP introduce uncertainty around your code’s behavior. In those situations, it’s helpful to insert helper functions that make your code more reliable and easier to test.
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Twitter was groundbreaking. But now the ground that Twitter stands upon can use some breaking of its own.
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Do you use type information in your PHP code? What drove you to make the change (or what is preventing you from taking the jump)?
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New Year's is an opportunity to stop, take stock, and reflect on everything we've done in the past year. While it's usually a good idea to do this more often than once a year, the seasonal holiday presents an opportune moment for the too-busy-to-otherwise-schedule-things. I fall into that category. Today begins a new annual tradition of recounting