All articles
Here you can find all 34 articles I have published so far.
2023
- Avoiding empty() in PHP (May 10, 2023)
- Introducing PHP-CS-Fixer into legacy projects (April 10, 2023)
- Collecting line, branch, and path coverage with PHPUnit (March 22, 2023)
- Avoiding one-liners in PHP (March 18, 2023)
- Sharing configurations for PHP-CS-Fixer across projects (March 10, 2023)
- Organizing test code in PHP (March 3, 2023)
- Documenting the system under test in PHPUnit (February 22, 2023)
- Extending PHPUnit with its new event system (February 14, 2023)
- Indenting YAML files (February 6, 2023)
- Documenting namespaces for test code in composer.json (January 29, 2023)
2022
- Enhancing types in PHP (September 20, 2022)
- Asserting the output of Symfony console commands (August 29, 2022)
- Naming constructors in PHP (March 26, 2022)
- Creating releases with GitHub Actions (January 24, 2022)
2021
- Wrapping it up (December 31, 2021)
2020
- Creating Doctrine entities populated with fake data (July 16, 2020)
- Merging pull requests with GitHub Actions (June 15, 2020)
- Rolling up database migrations with Doctrine (June 10, 2020)
- Avoiding imports and aliases in PHP (May 19, 2020)
- Quickly switching between PCOV and Xdebug (May 16, 2020)
- Using Makefiles in projects where I can not use them (May 7, 2020)
- Switching PHP versions when using Homebrew (May 5, 2020)
2019
- From @localheinz to @ergebnis (December 10, 2019)
- The grass could be a lot greener on both sides of the fence (December 3, 2019)
- Project notes (October 25, 2019)
- Test to the left, production to the right (October 14, 2019)
- Running tests for PHPUnit in PhpStorm (April 27, 2019)
2018
- Accessing a system-wide terminal via hotkey on macOS (October 2, 2018)
- Cost and value of DocBlocks (May 6, 2018)
- Code coverage is a meaningless metric (February 1, 2018)
- Makefile for lazy developers (January 24, 2018)
- Normalizing composer.json (January 15, 2018)
- Pretty-printing JSON with custom indentation (January 4, 2018)
2017
- Essential PhpStorm plugins (October 27, 2017)
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