Let's say you have a PHP Project that is based on Composer. You have found a bug in a vendor package and you need to fix it. What do you do? In this article I want to list a couple of options you have and outline differences, as well as look at each options Pros and Cons.
By Erik. Erik Pöhler's Weblog.The following YAML file is a basic (slightly simplified and opinionated) representation of the HTML5 specifications. I’m not sure if this is useful to anyone, but hey… you have found this page. My specific use-case for an HTML5 specification was code-generation. I use it to generate Storybook stories for each and every HTML5 element and […]
By Erik. Erik Pöhler's Weblog.Git hooks are scripts that run automatically every time a particular event occurs in a Git repository. They let you customize Git's internal behavior and trigger customizable actions at key points in the development life cycle.
By Erik. Erik Pöhler's Weblog.Every developer, who has worked in a team, knows how painful merge conflicts can be. But there are some simple strategies that make your life as a developer easier and take the pain out of resolving and reduce the risk of running into merge conflicts.
By Erik. Erik Pöhler's Weblog.Laravel's Valet is amazing. It makes setting up a new PHP Projects on macOS as easy as creating a folder. Valet has many advantages over for example Docker, as it has less overhead. No need to download images, no need to build them, no additional disk space is blocked by all the VM images, containers so on and so forth. Valet also takes advantage of your full CPU power as it doesn't have to share resources with a parent slash host OS. Of course, Docker has many advantages, too. In this article, however, we won't look at the things that make each of them stand out – instead I want to list all of those smaller and bigger problems one can run into when using Valet in your day to day web development. And of course how to fix them.
By Erik. Erik Pöhler's Weblog.Other IDEs come and go. Yes I'm looking at you Atom. But Eclipse PDT is still around. It's not the most popular one, nor does it fully support PHP 8, yet. Nonetheless, it's still a great, highly customisable IDE. A bit bloated, a bit slow at times but a worthy alternative to VS Code, PhpStorm, Nova, Sublime Text and whatnot.... This article shows you how to install and setup this IDE with Java onto a RamDisk on macOS for maximum performance.
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