Laravel Daily #28: My New Blog and Easy Unit-Tests!

This time I want to present you something non-technical. While writing to Laravel Daily, I thought that I have quite a lot to say about business part of web-development, not only Laravel technical tips.

Today Marcel Pociot launched a new Chrome Extension that allows you to visually create acceptance tests directly from the browser. Here is a quick demo of it in action:

A few years ago all the projects I worked on were served on a shared hosting environment. It was quite common that a client had ftp access to server to upload some files. A control like Cpanel or Plesk made it really easy to create some ftp accounts. Fast forward to today.

Social login is one of the easiest options for users to log into your site. At Stormpath, we’ve made social login easy for you to build by adding Facebook and Google login to the Stormpath Laravel integration.

It’s been quite a long time I’ve written an article on my blog, last time I’ve written about Laravel Form Validation Using Middleware and it’s about Laravel again. This time I’m going to discuss abour the Service Container (also known as IoC Container).

Laravel was the fastest tool I learned and I did that in a week with just a basic knowledge of PHP. Do not get me wrong but it was quite ironical to me. I saw my self as a C# master back in the days until I picked up ASP.

Laracon just announced the preliminary schedule for this year’s conference. Just as in the past, it leaves ample time for hanging out and meeting others interested in the framework.

Packages

A Laravel package to help you build a web setup wizard for your application.

Packages

An open-source invoicing and time-tracking app built with Laravel.

Symfony2, a high performance PHP framework, uses Dependency Injection Container pattern where components provide a dependency injection interface for the DI-container. This allows each component to not care about other dependencies.

In some ways security is an infinite game of chess on a board the size of the world. For every move you make, the hackers have a countermove ready. They are highly motivated to take what you have, so the game never ends; it just switches players once in awhile.

Updated Programmers were left staring at broken builds and failed installations on Tuesday after someone toppled the Jenga tower of JavaScript.

As winter rolls into Spring, it’s time for another roundup of all the interesting things in the PHP world, with PHP Annotated Monthly for March. This month has been compiled by travelling shill and PhpStorm Developer Advocate Gary Hockin.

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I had a blast at this year’s PHP UK Conference. There were some amazing sessions and interesting people to talk to. Together with Hannes, I even started a little hobby project. If you weren’t able to attend, you’ll be glad to know that all talks were recorded and are available now on YouTube.