Lately I’ve been busy studying and testing different libraries and resources:
I have many examples, tricks, and “recipes” for each of these that I’ll be publishing to keep them organized and easily accessible, and also because they’ll surely be useful to others.
When working on large projects, it’s common to have test suites that can take several minutes to run. And when one of those tests fails early in the execution, it’s frustrating to wait for all the others to complete just to see the full results.
Jest includes a feature I’ve found very useful in development: the bail option, which allows stopping test execution after a certain number of failures. It’s one of those features that once you know and start using, you don’t understand how you lived without it.
Deno 2.4 has just been released, and I must admit it has pleasantly surprised me. Not only because of the number of new features, but because of one in particular that many of us thought would never return: deno bundle is back. And this time, it’s here to stay.
This release comes packed with improvements ranging from importing text files directly to stable observability with OpenTelemetry. Let’s explore what this release brings us.
The first alpha version of PHP 8.5 has just been released, and I must confess it has me more excited than recent versions. It’s not just for the technical improvements (which are many), but because PHP 8.5 introduces features that will change the way we write code.
And when I say “change,” I mean the kind of changes that, once you use them, you can’t go back. Like when the null coalescing operator (??) appeared in PHP 7, or arrow functions in PHP 7.4.
Moments of change, moments of evolution, a constant in my life, with the 25th anniversary of the creation of the web I’ve entered “review” mode and I’m highly perplexed.
I’ve been doing things for the same time (25 years), enjoying, always with the same concept and particularity: Enjoyment and result, but it hasn’t been relevant for a long time (which is also not very relevant).
I’ve realized that the usual thing is to do things within your comfort zone, and I’ve never had one or knew one could exist, hence I’ve touched and done unusual things or perhaps “untimely”, when a certain technology could be in fashion “Buzz” I hadn’t been using it for a long time because it didn’t give me what something else gave me,…
When developing games for mobile devices, we have multiple cross-platform alternatives:
OpenCart is an e-commerce platform made in php, with impeccable development, 100% MVC. As a proof of concept, I have rewritten the template system of OpenCart to Haanga (Django templates for PHP, über efficient) by César Rodas.