Exakat will animate the “Preparing your code for PHP 7 ” session the 2th October 2016. More information on the PHPcon Poland web site.
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Jul
Jul
There is an upgraded Exakat version available. Since May, we’ve been working hard on a major upgrade of the exakat code base. After two years of growing and adding features, the initial architecture was showing signs of aging, that needed to be upgraded. For example, structures definitions, such as classes, functions, constants, etc. were kept […]
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Jun
Jun
There are two moments in the life cycle of a project where you can apply a long known best practice : « write test first, then the code ». The first one is when you start writing the code, and you have some time. The second is when the current architecture of the software has reached its maximal […]
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Jan
Jan
Find private properties in my PHP It is always good to use the lowest visibility possible for a class member, and only relax the constraint when it is really needed. This is probably a old adage, shared with other programming languages, and one that I’m trying to apply more and more. Public properties will act as […]
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Dec
Dec
PHP 7 Static analysis tools With PHP 7 officially live, it it time to review code and get it ready for migration. It is now time to think about migrating code to the new version, taking advantage of new features et reduced server load. This means reviewing all the code : it may be too much […]
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Nov
Nov
The Paris Open Source Summit, the premier European event centered on the Free & Open Source sector, is the result of the merger of two iconic Open Source events: Linux Solutions and the Open World Forum. Paris Open Source Summit attends the 18th and the 19th november 2015 at The Docks of Paris. The event strives […]
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Oct
Oct
PHP Worl 2015 brings together the entire world of PHP into one location together. The idea is to bring everyone together to learn from each other and make the greater PHP community stronger for it. Damien Seguy, CTO of Exakat, will present the “Error messages in PHP 7” session based on our […]
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Oct
Oct
PHP 7 is probably the ‘the easiest upgrade yet‘. After having checked that the old PHP 5.x is lintable with PHP 7, the next challenge is to read the ‘ backward incompatible changes‘ and see if it applies to the legacy code. The list is not long, and a quick text search will lead us […]
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Sep
Sep
Exakat is proud to be a part of PHP Barcelona Conference 2015. PHP Barcelona is the premium conference of the PHP community in South Europe. Damien Seguy will present our gremlin experience in using graph approach to build a PHP abstract syntax tree. Join Damien the 31th at 18:00 in the main room for the […]
Manual Code Review used to be The established standard is one write the code, and another one review it. This is safe and sound: no one can both be judge and be judged. Times are changing and they won’t stay long that way. Manual code reviews are definitely good for team building : obviously, experienced developer […]