Loïc Faugeron Technical Blog

TL;DR: Links I tweeted during 2014

I've tweeted a lot of links in 2014, so in order to keep track of them I've decided to list them here:

• Cool new tools
• Igor Wiedler and Functional Programing
• Todd Moto and Javascript
• Hexagonal Architecture
• Some insightful tweets
• Performance
• Symfony Components
• Richard Miller
• Mathias Verraes
• Elnur
• Uncle Bob and 8th light
• Tests and TDD
• Agile and BDD
• Miscellaneous

Warning: The order and categories are quite random.

Cool new tools

• Puli - Powerful Resource Management for PHP
• Redaktilo - An easy line manipulation PHP lib: jump, insert and do anything!
• Couscous - Put your markdown documentation online
• Test Framework in a tweet
• Finite, a state machine library for PHP

Igor Wiedler and Functional Programing

• Functional Library: Iteration
• Functional Library: Traversal
• Functional Library: Null

See also:

• The case against the ifsetor function

Todd Moto and Javascript

• Everything you wanted to know about javascript scopes
• Avoiding anonymous JavaScript functions
• Mastering the Module Pattern
• Understanding the “this” keyword in JavaScript
• What (function (window, document, undefined) {})(window, document); really means

See also:

• Cool like a Frontend Developer: Grunt, RequireJS, Bower and other Tools
• What are Promises and Deferred Objects?

Hexagonal Architecture

• Hexagonal Architecture
• Hexagonal Rails and The Ludicrous Terminal Application
• Where's Your Business Logic?
• doucheswag source code
• Silex, an implementation detail

Some insightful tweets

• Interface suffix and Abstract prefix is nothing else than an acceptance of your failure to name things clear in the first place. @everzet
• Once #PuliPHP is stable, many reasons for bundles will be gone. Then a bundle is just a package with DI config @webmozart
• TDD #InATweet: 1. write the test 2. write enough code to make it pass, in a quick and dirty way 3. refactor @epiloic
• spec #BDD #InATweet: test method names shoulb be senteces (it_should_do_something rather than testMethod) @epiloic
• story #BDD #InATweet: acceptance criteria (from user stories) should be executable @epiloic
• Rule of thumb number one: never follow blindly rule of thumbs @epiloic
• Should #Behat's training wheels come off too? http://aslakhellesoy.com/post/11055981222/the-training-wheels-came-off @epiloic

Performance

• Bring High Performance Into Your PHP App (with ReactPHP)
• Push it to the limits - Symfony2 for High Performance needs
• Handling 1 Billion requests a week with Symfony2
• Mastering Symfony2 Performance – Doctrine
• Optimizing PHP code
• why GNU grep is fast
• Time Complexity of Algorithms
• PHPUnit accelerator
• Why objects (usually) use less memory than arrays in PHP
• PHP's new hashtable implementation

Symfony Components

• Symfony security: authentication made simple (well, maybe!)

• Love & Loss, a Symfony Security Play

• Symfony2 components overview: ExpressionLanguage

• Using the Symfony Expression Language for a Reward Rules Engine

• About Rules and ExpressionLanguage

• Symfony2 Console Component on steroids

Richard Miller

• Symfony2: Configuring different services for different environments
• Symfony2: Trimming Fat from Controllers
• Value Objects

Mathias Verraes

• Named Constructors in PHP
• Resolving Feature Envy in the Domain
• Sterile Estimation
• Extract Till You Drop
• How Much Testing is Too Much?

Elnur

• Behat and Mink Are Not Meant to Be Together
• Use the Domain Language in BDD Features
• Use Only Infrastructural Bundles in Symfony
• BDD Does Not Replace Testing
• Triangulation in Testing
• Stop Playing God With Project Constraints
• Assets Cache Busting in Symfony
• Make Atomic Commits

Uncle Bob and 8th light

• The Domain Discontinuity
• When should you think
• When TDD doesn't work
• When to Mock
• The little Mocker
• First

• TestTime

• How Men and Women Think Differently

• Command Objects Are Verbs
• Stand-ups are Broken, but Should They be Fixed?
• Take Pride in Your Legacy Code

Tests and TDD

• Want To Introduce Fewer Bugs? Test Through These Five Cases.
• UnitTest
• Test Isolation Is About Avoiding Mocks
• Tests Are An Implementation Detail
• Naming Test Classes and Methods
• What TDD is and is not
• Is TDD dead
• TDD, Straw Men, and Rhetoric

Agile and BDD

• How behavioral is your BDD?
• What's in a story?
• Blink estimations
• On acceptance criteria for User Stories
• Capturing the narrative
• Pair programming from the developer’s perspective
• My Primary Criticism of Scrum
• A dev walks into a bar…
• Deriving Gherkin from Real Conversations
• A Case Against Coding Lingo
• My top ten favourite PhpSpec limitations
• Introducing Modelling by Example

Miscellaneous

• A case for service location
• The One correct way to do Dependency Injection

• Difference between services and controllers

• The repository Design Pattern

• Repositories, where did we go wrong?

• The repository interface

• Interfaces are not abstractions

• Towards better abstractions
• Tell, don't ask
• Why I hate the word “Pragmatic” and other rants
• “Your code sucks” – Tips on giving feedback
• Some Respect For Legacy Code

• Why your previous developer was terrible

• A Curious Course on Coroutines and Concurrency

• Generators in Node.js: Common Misconceptions and Three Good Use Cases

• A Hacker’s Guide to Git

• Git Commit Message Good Practice

• You are what you document

• Better Best Practices

• Symfony Best Practices
• Bundles, No Bundles and AppBundle in 10 Steps
• Symfony All The Things (Web)

• Best resources about methodologies on Symfony, PHP, DDD, BDD ...

• Doctrine is not just an ORM for Relational Databases

• Doctrine Entity Object Graph Traversal

• The fallacy of reuse

• Exception-Handling Antipatterns
• OpportunisticRefactoring
• Adding the R to CQS: some storage options
• Naming things considered hard
• Want To Be More Productive? Work Less!
• One New Tech Per Project
• You’re Not As Busy As You Say You Are
• For those using "Manager" as a classname: Data Mapper
• Update your Docs for "composer require", then Celebrate with a Sandwich
• OAuth1, OAuth2, OAuth...?
• Uncheck the struggle box
• Passwords are Obsolete
• Why was YAML a bad choice
• The true power of regular expressions
• Laravel Custom Requests
• Foundations Of OO Design
• PHP - get all class names inside a particular namespace