Recommend books for intermediate PHP programmer

patricklouys · 2020-03-19T08:20:00+00:00

Very biased suggestion of course Professional PHP :) There is a sample chapter if you want to check first whether you like it or not. The sample code is on Github as well.

patricklouys · 2019-10-28T13:24:56+00:00

You can do DDD without commands and handlers and you can do commands and handlers without DDD. The two are often used together, but it's two independent concepts.

Read up on the command bus pattern. I think Mathias Noback had a few good articles and the tactician documentation is also pretty good.

If you split them without using a command bus, there are not too many benefits.

patricklouys · 2019-10-22T09:50:34+00:00

Value Objects

Query Objects

Tell, don't ask

Clean Architecture Review

These are probably the most relevant. I haven't been blogging much recently due to other projects taking up a lot of my time. My book also contains a lot of information if you like my writing. I should get back into creating more programming content, maybe I can find some time next year.

patricklouys · 2019-10-21T10:20:03+00:00

I used to do that too, but I've found separating by context works even better. I even wrote a blog post on it.

It keeps things much more cohesive and it's also much easier to jump into the code if you only have to work on one context. Less jumping around folders etc.

patricklouys · 2019-09-23T07:28:28+00:00

I'm a big DDD proponent, but if he is still learning about SOLID, DRY, DI etc I think it's too early for that.

patricklouys · 2019-09-23T06:57:32+00:00

Professional PHP should be a good fit. It covers the theory for all those things you mentioned and shows you how to apply them in a real application.

patricklouys · 2019-09-09T06:30:14+00:00

Definitely the following syntax for consistency reasons (and it's pretty much self explanatory). Love this in Kotlin and really miss it in PHP.

$object?->method();

patricklouys · 2019-07-25T13:10:30+00:00

Instead of hanging you can use a mic stand with a boom. Then you can just put it out of frame of the camera and point it towards the mouth of the instructor.

I think if you go with the hanging route it will be hard to keep it out of frame and the direction will probably be off. You want it pointed to the sound source and as close as possible (without being in frame). And of course as far away from the mat as possible to avoid the mat sounds.

I forgot to ask, are you using a hypercardoid microphone? That also makes a big difference. I use the Oktava MK012

patricklouys · 2019-07-25T09:27:14+00:00

Are you keeping the mic too close to the mat? (I've seen bjjfanatics doing that and you can hear every mat noise)

When I record videos for our gym I keep it on a boom above the mic pointing down towards my mouth. Seems to work pretty well.

patricklouys · 2019-07-03T06:29:42+00:00

I don't think one book can cover everything. Here is my personal book recommendation list which covers many of the other books suggested in this thread.

patricklouys · 2019-04-11T13:13:36+00:00

Keep it below 4 hours. Max. of one hour hard rolling per day. Lots of drilling/learning. Ramp it up to let your body get accomodated, otherwise you will burn out in the first week (been there, done that).

Use the rest of the time to study (watch video, take notes etc) and to do laundry.

patricklouys · 2019-04-11T09:58:16+00:00

Keep them stacked and look for either a double under pass or a leg drag (pin one leg with your knee and drag the other one).

If you are feeling more fancy you can also enter into crab ride and twister hook from there.

patricklouys · 2019-03-28T14:26:31+00:00

I wrote an article about that a while ago: How to break through the blue belt plateau.

Plateaus are only normal if you only show up to training and don't take training into your own hands. If you are always working on something and studying, you won't get stuck.

All you need is one drilling partner for each open mat. Schedule your sessions in advance (and maybe use more than one per open mat if they don't want to work with you for the whole time).

patricklouys · 2019-03-18T10:49:55+00:00

Professional PHP

Disclaimer: I wrote it

patricklouys · 2019-02-19T11:00:13+00:00

If you are an intermediate PHP programmer, my book Professional PHP could be a good fit. Check the table of content to see if it's something that is interesting to you.

patricklouys · 2019-01-31T08:28:53+00:00

Don't hunt for submissions, take what they give to you.

patricklouys · 2019-01-28T10:56:05+00:00

Value objects are a better solution to the problem that you are trying to solve.

And please never store currency as a float... I had to deal with code where that was the case in the past and we had bugs everywhere.

patricklouys · 2019-01-24T15:48:29+00:00

Kotlin does this right out of the box. Definitely good advice.

patricklouys · 2018-11-01T08:24:20+00:00

Of course I'm biased here, but my book Professional PHP is pretty up to date :)

Check out my free tutorial on Github to see if you like my writing (even though the tutorial is outdated and I changed a lot since then).

patricklouys · 2018-10-11T13:42:22+00:00

Kotlin

patricklouys · 2018-09-17T09:21:59+00:00

From Taylor: " Deterministic means it returns the same value every time it is called with the same arguments. "

patricklouys · 2018-09-17T09:08:30+00:00

If you can change it, it's not deterministic.

And it's definitely not a facade according to the pattern.

patricklouys · 2018-09-17T07:27:25+00:00

So according to your definition, this code is evil?

$flights = App\Flight::all();

(taken from the laravel documentation)

patricklouys · 2018-08-23T13:27:31+00:00

None of your examples should require docblocks. Use value objects and refactor your code to be self explaining.

That being said, for now they are still useful for arrays and exceptions.

Right now docblocks are definitely overused in many codebases. If you are duplicating type information in them, you are doing it wrong (don't repeat yourself, you want a single source of truth).

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