“Code quality tools in PHP to check and improve your code” is a list of both some very well known tools and some new kids on the block. The article covers the following:
The brand new and shiny Fedora 28 has been released! This one brings updates to Gnome, improved battery life, and external repositories for things like Google Chrome browser and Nvidia proprietary drivers.
Upgrading from Fedora 27 is easy and painless – I’ve tried it myself and all went without any problems at all.
Everybody building a web application with a modern framework, is already probably using an ORM (Object-Relational Mapping). Most frameworks include one out of the box. But digging deeper into the subject, ORMs do vary from each other, and some cases, very significantly.
Most variations are coming from two main approaches: Active Record and Data Mapper. I’ve heard the terms for a long time, but today decided to look into the meaning and the actual difference.
The two approaches seem very similar. The difference is described in a multitude of articles online. I particularly liked this one. In essence, Active Record is a better choice for simpler, CRUD-based applications. Data Mapper, on the other hand, is better for domain-specific applications, as it provides another level of abstraction between the domain objects and the persistence layer.
Most of my work these days is done with CakePHP framework, which I now thought uses the Active Record pattern. But it turns out that CakePHP ORM so powerful, because it’s more than just one of those:
The CakePHP ORM borrows ideas and concepts from both ActiveRecord and Datamapper patterns. It aims to create a hybrid implementation that combines aspects of both patterns to create a fast, simple to use ORM.
It looks like I need to do some learning and dig deeper into the subject. Pointers are welcome.
I don’t think I’ve ever met a technical person, who didn’t exhibit at least some of the traits described in this article. And that includes myself as well. It’s usually not all that bad, but still …
If you think you’ve ever been involved in a huge and complex project, think again. Slashdot runs the story: Kazakhstan Is Changing Its Alphabet From Cyrillic To Latin-Based Style Favored By the West.
This is a huge change in many regards – technical, cultural, social, etc. Trying to remember when was the last time I heard about a project of this magnitude, September 3rd of 1967 in Sweden comes to mind. That’s when the country switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to driving on the right-hand side of the road. An icon photograph depicting the change is this one:
And that’s still easier and simpler than the alphabet change, I think.