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Background info fast-cgi-client v2.6.0
Background info about a faulty change in v2.5.0 and why that caused a minor BC break in v2.6.0 of hollodotme/fast-cgi-client.
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Multi language-version builds on Circle CI
How to configure a kind of build matrix on Circle CI - CAUTION: YAML!
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My year in the PHP community - 2017
This is a personal recap of my path to become part of the PHP community in 2017.
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Experimental async PHP - Volume 2
Second try to run a PHP daemon receiving messages from RabbtiMQ and executing commands async on the php-fpm socket
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Experimental async PHP - Volume 1
First try to run a PHP daemon subscribing to redis channels and executing commands async on the php-fpm socket
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Traitful configs
An application specifies requirements for its configuration and subdivedes them into MUST haves and COULD haves. The concept of 'Traitful' configs shows how you can force the user of the application to implement the MUST haves and individually use the default implementations of the COULD haves.
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Fluent validation with ease
Free yourself from consuming and redundant data validation by lining up if statements. Use the fluent interface for validating form input or other data objects. The FluidValidator makes it happen and offers flexible capabilities.
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Custom exceptions with context
You're tired of creating error lists or objects and return them through multiple layers of your application? Use custom exceptions with context to get rid of mixed return types in methods, handling and enriching errors multiple times on different layers and a restricted, hard to extend structure of error information.
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Talks | Talks I gave at several places
TOTAL RECALL - The application that never forgets
Building an application upon CQRS and Event Sourcing offers three pretty nice benefits.<ol><li>Well structured code and business logic, separated by read and write concerns.</li><li>The source of truth - A reliable and recoverable view into the past of your application state.</li><li>The opportunity to answer future questions that you don't know about today.</ol>This talk tries to show you examples for these benefits and how to give your application a memory.
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Marvelous Agents of Yield
Generators and thus yield are part of PHP since version 5.5. Most of the time it is used as a substitution for a full iterator implementation.
But there is way more power to generators! This talk will try to unveil the hidden superpowers of interruptible loops, signals and cooporative multitasking. Coincidental movie analogies included.
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Marvelous Agents of Yield
Generators and thus yield are part of PHP since version 5.5. Most of the time it is used as a substitution for a full iterator implementation.
But there is way more power to generators! This talk will try to unveil the hidden superpowers of interruptible loops, signals and cooporative multitasking. Coincidental movie analogies included.
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TOTAL RECALL - The application that never forgets
Building an application upon CQRS and Event Sourcing offers three pretty nice benefits.<ol><li>Well structured code and business logic, separated by read and write concerns.</li><li>The source of truth - A reliable and recoverable view into the past of your application state.</li><li>The opportunity to answer future questions that you don't know about today.</ol>This talk tries to show you examples for these benefits and how to give your application a memory.
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TOTAL RECALL - The application that never forgets
Building an application upon CQRS and Event Sourcing offers three pretty nice benefits.<ol><li>Well structured code and business logic, separated by read and write concerns.</li><li>The source of truth - A reliable and recoverable view into the past of your application state.</li><li>The opportunity to answer future questions that you don't know about today.</ol>This talk tries to show you examples for these benefits and how to give your application a memory.
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What's new in PHP 7.2
New features, new functions, new constants, deprecations, other changes and optimizations coming with the new PHP 7.2 release. This talk should give a brief overview of what has changed, what has improved and what you should fix to be able to upgrade to future versions of PHP. PHP USERGROUP DRESDEN e.V., Dresden, Germany
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Async PHP Request and Reactive Responses
A talk about finding a way to make async PHP requests with the help of php-fpm and eventually get their responses. PHP Central Europe, Rawa Mazowiecka, Poland
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Async PHP Request and Reactive Responses
A talk about finding a way to make async PHP requests with the help of php-fpm and eventually get their responses. unKonf, Mannheim, Germany
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Async PHP Request and Reactive Responses
A talk about finding a way to make async PHP requests with the help of php-fpm and eventually get their responses. PHP North West Unconference, Menchester, UK
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Welcome Keynote - PHP Developer Day 2017
Kickoff keynote for the 3rd annual PHP Developer Day 2017 in Dresden at September 22nd. Dresden, Germany
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IceHawk - A PHP 7 micro-framework respecting CQRS
An introduction to the history, features, code and components of the IceHawk framework at PHP Usergroup Munich (PHPUG MUNICH)
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Async PHP Request and Reactive Responses
A talk about finding a way to make async PHP requests with the help of php-fpm and eventually get their responses. PHP USERGROUP DRESDEN, Dresden, Germany
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Async PHP Request and Reactive Responses
A talk about finding a way to make async PHP requests with the help of php-fpm and eventually get their responses. Péhápkaři 2017, Prague, Czech Republic
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TOTAL RECALL - The application that never forgets
A talk about CQRS applied to several application layers and the benefit of adding Event Sourcing for more business intelligence. PHPkonf 2017 in Istanbul, Turkey
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IceHawk framework - A short introduction
A short introduction to the history, features, code and components of the IceHawk framework at PHP Usergroup Berlin (BEPHPUG)
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IceHawk framework - An introduction
An introduction to the history, features, code and components of the IceHawk framework at PHP Usergroup Frankfurt am Main (PHPUGFFM)
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Open Source Software - Get Involved
A basic overview on resources and best practices to get involved in open source software projects. A talk at the 'X-Mas Issue Bash 2016' at PHP USERGROUP DRESDEN e.V.
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Divide and Conquer - 2 years of CQRS in production
'The MVC pattern solves a problem, that does not exist in the web.' - These few words and some scribbles on the whiteboard has a whole development ideology torn apart in seconds. Mhh, aha, Command Query Responsibility Segregation - Sounds good! And how does one implement this? This session tells the story about the genesis of a PHP micro-framework respecting CQRS, the rethinking of its developers, two years of production experience and the learnings on the road to version 2.0.
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PHAR better tools
Introduction to PHAR tools, usage examples, how to distribute and update PHARs, PhiVE and PHAR.io
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Practical CQRS - Newsletter Double Opt-In
Why the MVC pattern solves a problem that doesn't exist in the web, how Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) can reduce the complexity of request handling and offers you chances for performance optimizations. A talk at the <a href='http://phpug-dresden.org' target='_blank'>PHP USERGROUP DRESDEN</a>.
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Projects | Software projects I maintain or I am involved in
DevOps | Unsorted stuff written down while setting up development environments or dealing with issues.
Routing to multiple docker-compose setups using traefik
A tutorial that describes the steps to setup a local reverse proxy with traefik that globally performs SSL offloading and routing to multiple docker-compose development setups.
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Self-hosted 'vagrant cloud'
A tutorial on how to set up a self-hosted 'vagrant cloud' with versioned, self-packaged vagrant boxes
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Install XMPP server prosody
A tutorial on how to install XMPP server prosody with mysql auth backend on Ubuntu
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