A big part of my work has to do with code. I’ve worked as system administrator – installing, patching, and configuring someone else’s code. I’ve worked as independent programmer, writing code on my own. I also programmed as part of the team. And on top of that, I worked as Team Leader and Project Manager, where I had to interact a lot with programmers. Programming world on its own is as huge as the universe. There is always something to learn. When I find something worthy or something that I understand enough to write about, I share it in this category.
I came across this collection of “Tips to Speed up Your PHPunit Tests“. Apart from the few usual ones, like disabling XDebug and using groups, I found a couple that linked to handy tools:
Very cool! Needs trying …
“The HTML we never had” is an interesting look at some features of HTML, that weren’t implemented, but could have been easily done, and if they were, how different the modern web development would be.
I agree that the “src” attribute makes a lot of sense for tags other than just images and videos.
Here are some exciting news from GitHub – an introduction of the Draft Pull Requests. I think this is a very welcome addition to GitHub features.
At work, we’ve been using a work around to solve the problem – a [WIP] prefix in the title of the pull request, which means that this is “Work In Progress” and the PR shouldn’t be merged.
While the prefix does help, it’s not as good as the new Draft Pull Requests. Somebody can still merge a [WIP] pull request by mistake. But with Draft Pull Requests, merging is blocked, until the developer indicates otherwise.
Great stuff!
phpdaily/php is a collection of the daily updated Docker images for a variety of PHP versions. Interestingly, these include even the most recent development versions, like PHP 8.0.
Jouke Waleson points out to an interesting fact about UUIDs in MySQL, which you might have missed in the documentation:
Warning: Although UUID() values are intended to be unique, they are not necessarily unguessable or unpredictable. If unpredictability is required, UUID values should be generated some other way.
Make a note!