46 posts

Back to basics: SOLID – Interface Segregation Principle (ISP)

SOLID: Interface Segregation Principle (ISP) Woosh, the fourth article! That's a lot of information to have for SOLID principles. But you know, in a developer's life, it's always a good practice to learn more, because our profession keeps evolving, and making things better often goes together with l...

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Published on Sep 29, 2016

Back to basics: SOLID – Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP)

SOLID: Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP) Yeah, this is our third article about SOLID principles! If you have not checked the previous ones, just look at them, they're about SRP and OCP, and are very useful when combined with LSP (that's why all SOLID principles have to stay together). About half o...

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Published on Sep 22, 2016

Back to basics: SOLID – Open/Closed Principle (OCP)

SOLID: Open/Closed Principle (OCP) Last week we've talked about "What are SOLID principles?", because we all like good code and nice architectures. But respectability does not come with a single practice, and SOLID counts six letters: six ways of being a better programmer! So, now that you understan...

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Published on Sep 15, 2016

Back to basics: SOLID – Single Responsiblity Principle (SRP)

SOLID: Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) Did you say "solid"? You may have heard of SOLID, or at least “programming principles” in your dev live. If not, this is a great occasion to get in touch with very interesting theory about Oriented Object Programming! SOLID is an acronym representing a li...

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Published on Sep 8, 2016

JavaScript widgets with Browserify

Theory is good, practice is better! That's why I (aka@rougemine ) created a tiny demo project in order to explain the concept of JS widgets with Browserify :-) > https://github.com/DrBenton/js-widgets-with-browserify-demo The pattern is simple : a widgets-initializer-from-dom component is respons...

Published on Apr 22, 2016

Introducing Sylius.com - a developer-friendly ecommerce solution for Symfony2

Apr 10, 2013 − Today we are pleased to announce the launch of the brand new Sylius.com website! YES! Today we are pleased to announce the launch of the brand new Sylius.com website! Wait, what, Sylius? Some of you may not know about Sylius. It is a developer-friendly Ecommerce solution for Symfo...

Published on Apr 9, 2013

Redirecting after Registration in Symfony2

Jan 13, 2012 − Ever wonder how to redirect a new user back to her last visited page after registration? We'll show you how easy it is by taking advantage of some security iternals. Imagine this scenario: A user on your site finds an awesome link, but it's only open to registered users. Normally th...

Published on Jan 12, 2012

Describing Web API with Behat *.feature(s)

Jan 3, 2012 − "Can we test Web API of our website with Behat?". We hear this question alot in Behat user group, twitter and emails. Although it's not so complex task as web UI testing (say hello to Mink), it still raises some question, that we will try to answer today. "Can we test Web API of our...

Published on Jan 2, 2012

Installing and using Symfony2 with Composer

Jan 2, 2012 − Are you tired of managing the deps and deps.lock files? Want to install BehatBundle without editing 3 files simultaneously and reading a long list of Mink dependencies that you need to place in deps? Composer to rescue! Are you tired of managing the deps and deps.lock files? Want to i...

Published on Jan 1, 2012

Behat like a boss: meta-steps

Dec 15, 2011 − Previously, in "Behat like a boss", we learned how to write custom steps. One thing that bothered me when I first discovered Behat and started writing custom steps was that I had to know an existing step's method name (e.g. visit) in order to reuse it in my steps. Actually, you don't ...

Published on Dec 14, 2011

Behat like a boss: writing custom steps

Dec 5, 2011 − Today we are starting a series of blog posts about the internals of Behat, as in "the tool you use to do BDD". This series will be focusing on using Behat (assuming you already have it running), not on how to BDD right. This first post's entry barrier is quite low, as I'm going to show...

Published on Dec 4, 2011

Update your Knp* file deps to solve /info/refs not found

Dec 3, 2011 − If you use KNP bundles (KnpMenuBundle or KnpPaginatorBundle for example), please update your deps file or .gitmodules file to reflect the username case change from knplabs to KNP Labs. If you use KNP bundles (KnpMenuBundle or KnpPaginatorBundle for example), please update your deps fi...

Published on Dec 2, 2011