You can read the article here https://alnutile.medium.com/small-teams-should-focus-on-dev-not-ops-63d7938a314a Enjoy!By Alfred Nutile

As a freelance developer, my relationship with clients extends far beyond coding. The engagement is educational, helping clients become efficient product owners, understand the value of iterative development, and adopt a proactive approach to Quality Assurance (QA). Also on my end making sure I really understand their domain, their goals and help b…

News & Other Happenings Al (tool/app) [CGR] https://github.com/alnutile/cli_skel great command line starter library for PHP with a focus on testing, CI and code quality NK: How Can We Optimize AI for the Greatest Good, Instead of Profit? https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608049/how-can-we-optimize-ai-for-the-greatest-good-instead-of-profit Al: PHP…

News & Other Happenings Al (tool/app) Copied – Copy and Paste Everywhere by Kevin Chang http://copiedapp.com/ Make sure to enable the keyboard NK: Intro Video to Pickle - a BDD layer on top of Dusk and PHPUnit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmA-6hnhljI&feature=youtu.be https://github.com/alnutile/pickle Al: Github moving to GraphQL https://develop…

News & Other Happenings Al (tool/app) Moom https://manytricks.com/moom/ NK: Leaflet - an open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps http://leafletjs.com/ Al: https://martinfowler.com//bliki/PurposeOfEstimation.html Just a reminder that quotes are not to lock you in but to help decide if the work is even worth taking on NK: …

Author: Alfred Nutile Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: https://medium.com/@alnutile/we-code-in-the-context-of-our-quoting-dab391fe0881#.6a1k99bu1 Whether you are working Waterfall, or Agile we still need to quote out the time it will take for new features . We still need to give the product owners, or the people with the money, a sense of ti…

News & Other Happenings UnitTest - Al Adam Watham link to Martin Fowler https://martinfowler.com/bliki/UnitTest.html Vue.js Comparison with Other Frameworks - Nathan https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/comparison.html PHPStan - PHP Static Analysis Tool - Al Found in PHPArch https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan Shipping Docker - Nathan https://shippingdocker.c…

News & Other Happenings Al (tool/app) TextExpander/Auto Text https://smilesoftware.com/textexpander http://lifehacker.com/5843903/the-best-text-expansion-app-for-mac Even Alfred Plugin Point is be more efficient including clipboard history into string etc and syncing NK: Laravel Dusk Browser Testing https://www.sitepoint.com/laravel-dusk-intuitive-…

Author: John Ferguson Smart Author: Jan Molak Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: http://johnfergusonsmart.com/five-stages-bdd-agile-adoption/ Other links https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ShuHaRi.htmlBy John Ferguson Smart

News & Other Happenings Al “Abstracting HTTP Clients in PHP By David Buchmann” Excerpt From: php[architect]. “php[architect] - December 2016.” iBooks. Yes I am still in December! NK: Use your eyes and Deep Learning to command your computer https://hackernoon.com/talk-to-you-computer-with-you-eyes-and-deep-learning-a-i-odyssey-part-2-7d3405ab8be1#.q…

News & Other Happenings Al - PHPArch December 2016 Behat - Beyond Browser Testing https://www.phparch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Behat-Beyond_Browser_Automation-phparchitect-December2016.pdf Konstantin (Con-Stan-Teen) Kudryashov NK - Laravel Dusk is Coming https://laravel-news.com/laravel-dusk-is-coming Al - Shipping Docker all the videos https…

News & Other Happenings Machine Learning is Fun https://medium.com/@ageitgey/machine-learning-is-fun-80ea3ec3c471#.wlk5uwkvd Three Horizons of Innovation https://steveblank.com/2015/06/26/lean-innovation-management-making-corporate-innovation-work/ Generate Migrations from Existing Database https://github.com/Xethron/migrations-generator ServerLess…

News & Other Happenings PHPArch May 2016 Mastering Oauth2 Ben Ramsey Vue.js 2.0 https://medium.com/the-vue-point/announcing-vue-js-2-0-8af1bde7ab9#.87222rvto Event Sourcing - Martin Fowler http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html PHP 7.1 Updates https://dotdev.co/upcoming-changes-in-php-7-1-76ebea53b820#.ttl517y8f Microsoft Cognitive Servi…

Author: Jesse Schutt Read By: Jack Fruh Original Source: http://zaengle.com/blog/diving-in-to-a-laravel-audit Recently the Zaengle team was asked to look over an existing Laravel application and give a review of the overall state of the code. We were to act as an independent third party, between a new studio who had inherited the codebase, and the …

Author: David Heinemeier Hansson Read By: Ryan MacAllan Original Source: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2188-theres-no-room-for-the-idea-guy Startups need people able and willing of doing the actual work. They need programmers, designers, and eventually folks to do marketing, support, and more. What they don’t need, though, is someone who’s just go…

News & Other Happenings PHPArch February 2016 Looking forward to the “Docker for PHP” by Ben Hosmer Preventing API Drift with Contract Tests http://adamwathan.me/2016/02/01/preventing-api-drift-with-contract-tests/ Diving Into a Laravel Audit by Jesse Schutt http://zaengle.com/blog/diving-in-to-a-laravel-audit Tired Of Waiting for NPM and Composer …

Author: Alfred Nutile Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: https://alfrednutile.info/posts/177 This document will cover how to use a Behat specific API to setup a site for testing. What this includes is setting up a Scenario so that it has the data you need to run a test. This makes it possible not to rely on Seed data for this. This will allow …

Author: Matthew Machuga Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: http://matthewmachuga.com/blog/2015/activerecord-and-the-beauty-lost-in-translation.html Sometime in 2014, PHP-land started to debate whether Active Record was a tolerable ORM pattern, and whether one should use Active Record or Data Mapper ORMs. In PHP, this comes down to something li…

News & Other Happenings PHPArch January 2016 “Finding the Solution to the Problem” Ditching Scrum for Kanban — The best decision we’ve made as a team https://medium.com/cto-school/ditching-scrum-for-kanban-the-best-decision-we-ve-made-as-a-team-cd1167014a6f#.yifsdma0r AngularJS 2 Beta 1: Hello World With ES5 And RequireJS by Ben Nadel http://www.be…

Author: Alfred Nutile Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: https://alfrednutile.info/posts/175 We are working on using FeatureFlags or Toggles in our applications. For one we are aiming to do all our work on mainline branch at all times so this would be a key coding discipline to use FeatureFlags so we can hide a feature in progress knowing it w…

Author: Lorna Jane Mitchell Read By: Lorna Jane Mitchell Original Source: http://www.lornajane.net/posts/2015/git-pull-causes-a-merge If you type git pull and expect a fast-forward update, but get a merge instead, don't panic! This usually happens when we're collaborating on a branch with other people, and we've made changes on our local version of…

Author: Lorna Jane Mitchell Read By: Lorna Jane Mitchell Original Source: http://www.lornajane.net/posts/2014/using-composer-without-gitignoring Recent additions to the joind.in API have introduced some new dependencies so we decided we'd start using Composer to manage these - but we don't want to run composer unsupervised. I'm sure this will bring…

Author: David Heinemeier Hansson Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2014/tdd-is-dead-long-live-testing.html It didn't start out like that. When I first discovered TDD, it was like a courteous invitation to a better world of writing software. A mind hack to get you going with the practice of testing where no t…

Author: Alfred Nutile Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: https://alfrednutile.info/posts/160 BETA: This is a Code Heavy Read :) Not all apps need to be an SPA (Single Page Application). Sure they have their place but in most cases the task might benefit from just a Blade template and Angular widget. This saves you from having to write an angul…

Author: Grant Ammons Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: https://medium.com/cto-school/ditching-scrum-for-kanban-the-best-decision-we-ve-made-as-a-team-cd1167014a6f#.8hh5rddu0 The following is a story about how we matured as an engineering team. We went from an ad-hoc process to Scrum, and used Scrum for a whole year. Scrum leveled us up as a t…

#News ##Latest PHPArch Articles of Interest new issue out 01-2016! Writing better CLI Tools ##Using selenium and a virtual frame buffer for behat tests on a headless server http://zigbop.io/blog/using-selenium-and-a-virtual-frame-buffer-forbehat-tests-on-a-headless-server ##Better Together: Amazon ECS and AWS Lambda https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/com…

Author: Alfred Nutile Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: https://alfrednutile.info/posts/172 This will cover two things. One, how helpful it can be to make a clickable Proof of Concepts (POC), not just with images, or tools the spit out html but instead just enough javascript and base theme to help "sell" the idea, or more importantly to help …

Author: Konstantin Kudryashov Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: http://stakeholderwhisperer.com/posts/2014/10/introducing-modelling-by-example "For the last year I have been experimenting with the new approach to a Behaviour-Driven Development, which could be summarised as "Ubiquitous Language is a thing again". The core premise of this appro…

Author: Alfred Nutile Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: https://alfrednutile.info/posts/171 Some reasons why putting all library files into version control might be a good idea. You can read about it here as well https://alfrednutile.info/posts/171By Alfred Nutile

#News & Other Happenings Latest PHPArch Articles of Interest December 2015 Article Power of Interface Learning Vim for Beginners http://www.labnol.org/internet/learning-vim-for-beginners/28820/ Introducing Modelling by Example http://everzet.com/post/99045129766/introducing-modelling-by-example Modeling an Aggregate with Eloquent http://www.sitepoi…

Author: Alfred Nutile Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: http://alfrednutile.info/posts/170 First let me define what a “Side Project” is. In this case a “Side Project” is something you are not being paid for and something that you have complete control over....By Alfred Nutile

#News & Other Happenings Latest PHPArch Articles of Interest Manageable Microservices with RabbitMQ https://www.phparch.com/magazine/2015-2/november/ Uncommon Sense by Derek Sivers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUJir-MTmJY&index=1&list=PLBAAC8C0430D64F4D ThoughtWorks Radar https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques Consumer Driven Contracts De…

News & Other Happenings Latest PHPArch out! https://www.phparch.com/magazine/2015-2/november/ PHPArch DC Conference Right around the Corner https://world.phparch.com/ Angular Cardboard http://blog.ionic.io/angular-cardboard-hackathon-ionic/ https://www.google.com/get/cardboard/get-cardboard/ Considering Speed and Slowness in AngularJS https://www.e…

News & Other Happenings Latest php arch articles? PHPArch Cruise https://www.phparch.com/2015/10/phpcruise-website-is-live/ On Monoliths and Services http://dev.otto.de/2015/09/30/on-monoliths-and-microservices/ A Circle of Death https://mobile.twitter.com/joshsusser/status/652540877160603648 Production Support & Scrum https://www.scrumalliance.org…

Sponsorship php[architect] has been published continuously since 2002. The magazine is the only technical journal dedicated exclusively to the world of PHP. News & Other Happenings Leveling Up: What’s Coming in PHP 7 https://www.phparch.com/magazine/2015-2/october/ Homestead now with PHP 7 support https://laravel-news.com/2015/10/homestead-now-with…

Delving deep into the art of mastering one's craft, in this episode we explore a recent talk by Jeffrey Way on what can be learned from working with tools like Laravel. And, of course, we include a healthy dose of recent and trending news. News & Other Happenings MySQL 5.7 https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-nutshell.html JSON and other n…

Special thanks to our sponsor php[architect] https://www.phparch.com/ ! News and Happenings PHPArch Reminder PHP World Washington, DC - November 16-20, 2015 https://world.phparch.com/ PHP In the Cloud (Training Day) Building Testable Extensions Sebastian Bergman (phpunit!) Test Create Secure Repeat 2FA PHP At Google Remote Year http://www.remoteyea…

News & Goings On NERD Event https://nerdsummit.org/ Hacking the Flow State https://medium.com/brigade-engineering/hacking-the-flow-state-b2451d0bf7ba Google Two Factor Authentication Security Key http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/22/google-usb-security-key-two-factor-authentication Al’s Most Recent Laravel Contribution https://github.c…

News & Goings On PHPArchitect Magazine Sept - 2015 Events November 16–20, Washington, DC https://world.phparch.com Articles Expose Security Interesting tool to track security risks coming in and maybe going out. Made MiddleWare article for Laravel https://www.alfrednutile.info/posts/162 Interesting Podcasts Developer Tea http://www.developertea.com…

News & Goings On Comparing Blade and Twig Templates In Laravel http://barryvdh.nl/laravel/twig/2015/08/22/comparing-blade-and-twig-templates-in-laravel A Laravel Socialite Tutorial http://www.codeanchor.net/blog/complete-laravel-socialite-tutorial/ A Nice Drag and Drop File Upload Library http://www.dropzonejs.com/ An Overview of JavaScript in 2015…

News & Goings On Working remotely https://medium.com/digital-nomad-stories/working-remotely-isn-t-always-a-dream-151619ae45dc Interesting quick read but honestly I do not feel any of this. Angular and using Promises https://devchat.tv/adventures-in-angular/055-aia-promises Better git commit message tips https://robots.thoughtbot.com/5-useful-tips-f…

Note: If you previously experienced issues listening to this episode, we have corrected the issue and uploaded the new mp3 - August 13 08:16 EST News & Goings On Extended survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YM2KZKK give us some feedback on the show. Some of the talk today was about doing it every week, keeping it under 30 minutes, and honing in o…

Please participate in our first survey! We will use the results to make this podcast even better! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YM2KZKK ##News & Goings On ###NASA International Space Station Tours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kVxk6Drm2I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afBm0Dpfj_k ###Another great Full Stack Radio interview 22: Corey Haines - T…

Headlines Decoupling All Things http://www.fiveminutegeekshow.com/46 Matt Stauffer The Five Minute Geek Show. Interesting interview on Queues etc as well as RabbitMQ New broadcasting with pusher or reddis driver. When to use reddis? https://laracasts.com/lessons/broadcasting-events-in-laravel-5-1 Design Simplicity talked about in Laravel Podcast ht…

Headlines and Interesting Links Five Tips For Being an Effective Tech Lead http://t.co/er4LX8ZQhF Team Dynamics, API Design, and System Resiliency with Daniel Jacobson of Netflix Ruby Rogues Podcast http://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/213-rr-team-dynamics-api-design-and-system-resiliency-with-daniel-jacobson-of-netflix Amazon Echo SDK (no tab) http://www…

Headlines and Interesting Reads PHPunit 4.7 PHPUnit 5 will only be PHP 5.6 and 7 Laravel 5.1 Released LTS Docs! PSR-2 Integration Testing Mocking Hard Dependencies in Legacy Code Nomad PHP upcoming lesson “Building PHP Daemons and Long Running Processes” MonolithFirst by Martin Fowler Latest Readings Microservices we read Chapter 2 Evolutionary Arc…

Topics Intro who the heck are we How do we answer the question "What do you do for work", "Web Developer" or "App Developer" Building Microservices Zend Certification Study Guide: Third Edition Facades and Mocking https://goo.gl/8lSKfR talks a bit about this Standing Desk with our without Treadmill Vue.js some Laracasts on it as well at https://lar…