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DevelopersHangoutStop Coding Start Building🎧 Episode 37: Stop Coding, Start BuildingIf you're learning to code, launching a startup, or hiring a dev—you need to hear this.In this episode, I talk through:Why code is no longer the starting pointThe shift from developer to builderTools like n8n, Supabase, Bolt.new, and CursorHow AI and no-code platforms are reshaping productivityThe real job of a developer (hint: it’s not writing code)I’ve spent 20+ years in dev—Laravel, PHP, Rails, you name it—and I’m telling you: I’ve never written less code, and I’ve never built more va...2025-07-0606 minDevelopersHangoutRetrospective Roberto June 2025 - Day to Day Ai and N8N Realityhttps://youtu.be/VVQIOUfC3DAJoin Roberto and Alfred as they explore the latest in AI-driven development, sharing their experiences with tools like Bolt, Cursor, and n8n. Discover the power of no-code and low-code strategies, the challenges and innovations in the field, and insights into the future of AI in software development.Links👉🏻 SubStack Details https://substack.com/@dailyaistudio👉🏻 Training https://training.dailyai.studio/👉🏻 Scrapegraphai - SUPPORT https://scrapegraphai.com/welcome?via=alfred👉🏻 Clothing https://www.stitchfix.com/invite/zwkjpzn4xs?utm_campaign=InviteReferral&sod=w&som=c👉🏻 Swag https://store.dailyai.studio/2025-06-2133 minDevelopersHangoutAlfred and Rob 🚀 March Retro - Ai, N8N, MCP, Claude Code, Supabase and moreI had a great chat with Roberto Gongora about the fast-evolving landscape of software development in the age of AI and no-code. We dove into the real challenges and opportunities of working with AI-generated code, and how tools like N8n and SuperBase are changing the game. It's a shift from hands-on building to "supervising" ai, and we covered how to navigate this new era with practical strategies and the skills you'll need.Links👉🏻NewsLetter https://signup.dailyai.studio/👉🏻Training https://training.dailyai.studio/
👉🏻 Join the NewsLetter https://bit.ly/dailyai-newsletter👉🏻 Subscribe...2025-03-2539 minDevelopersHangoutThe N8N and ActivePieces License ConversationHere is a summary of the comparison between n8n and ActivePieces, emphasizing the key points for freelancers, entrepreneurs, and SaaS product development:n8n utilizes a "Sustainable Use License" which is free for internal business and non-commercial use, including node creation, consulting, and support. However, it restricts commercial hosting, white-labeling, and building products where users connect their own credentials to external services without an enterprise license. The core version is free, but enterprise licenses for broader commercial use start at $25,000 per year.ActivePieces, on the other hand, uses an open-core model with the core functionalities under the...2025-02-1618 minDevelopersHangoutN8N and Cursor Ai Project Retrospective with Alfred and RobertoIn this episode, I sit down with Roberto Gongora, a developer I've worked with since our Pfizer days, to explore how AI and no-code tools are reshaping our approach to development in 2024. We dive into a recent project where Roberto used n8N instead of traditional Laravel for building an API backend - a decision that not only saved time but made the entire system easier to maintain and debug.What's fascinating is how Roberto's perspective on development is evolving. Rather than getting lost in complex code implementations, he's finding himself spending more time understanding business problems...2025-01-1429 minDevelopersHangoutRethinking Development in the Age of Ai👉🏻 Training https://bit.ly/n8n-training👉🏻 Automation and Ai NewsList https://bit.ly/dailyai-newsletterOverviewThis podcast episode delves into a developer's 25-year journey, reflecting on how the rise of AI and low-code/no-code tools is reshaping software development. The discussion highlights a shift from traditional frameworks like Laravel to more flexible solutions incorporating tools like N8N, Bolt.new, and Cursor AI. The core idea is to prioritize efficiency and problem-solving over the act of coding itself.Key points include:● A move from Laravel-centric development: The developer acknowledges that while Laravel was a go-to in...2024-12-2721 min
ReadOrListenRead by Alfred Nutile - 🤔 What if I was to build it today'💡 "What if I was to build it now?" - Rethinking Development in the Age of AI and Low-Code Tools 🚀I've been developing for 25 years, building solutions for companies like Pfizer down to one-person startups. A lot has changed since the days I could just reach for Laravel for every web project. Today, with breakthroughs in AI and tools like Supermavin, ChatGPT, N8N.io, and more, I've had to step back and ask myself: What are the right tools for the job now?No longer is it just Laravel, but often it's Laravel + N8N + low-co...2024-11-2614 minReadOrListen🤔 What if I was to build it today💡 "What if I was to build it now?" - Rethinking Development in the Age of AI and Low-Code Tools 🚀I've been developing for 25 years, building solutions for companies like Pfizer down to one-person startups. A lot has changed since the days I could just reach for Laravel for every web project. Today, with breakthroughs in AI and tools like Supermavin, ChatGPT, N8N.io, and more, I've had to step back and ask myself: What are the right tools for the job now?No longer is it just Laravel, but often it's Laravel + N8N + low-co...2024-11-2521 minReadOrListenAgnostic ToolsFrom the "PHP and LLMs" book, “Agnostic” that Notebook LM will talk about the "Pasted Notes" as the call it. SummaryThis chapter will be about agnostic tools. I've already covered tools in the Tools Overview chapter and agnostic drivers in the Agnostic Driver chapter. However, I want to examine how these work and why it is important to use an agnostic system. By the end of this chapter, you will understand how hard it is to switch between the most different systems, such as OpenAi and Claude. We will then see how impo...2024-10-2411 minReadOrListenStandards Checking ChapterFrom the "PHP and LLMs" book, “Standards Checking” that Notebook LM will talk about. This is a deceiving title since this pattern can be use for so many other workflows like Grant Writing, RFP Proposals, Marketing Voice, Related Content Checking an more! 👉🏻 Buy the book "PHP and LLMs - the practical guide" https://bit.ly/php_llms👉🏻 Ai Automation Consulting https://dailyai.studio👉🏻 Join the NewsLetter https://sundance-solutions.mailcoach.app/php-and-llms
👉🏻 Ai Automation Consulting https://dailyai.studio👉🏻 Join the NewsLetter https://videos.dailyai.studio/👉🏻 Buy the book "PHP and LLMs - the practical guide...2024-10-2010 minDevelopersHangoutNews for the Week 42 2004Read more at https://sundance-solutions.mailcoach.app/php-and-llmsLots of things going on that I want to share below.PHP and LLMs Marketing Assistant Chapter ReleasedThis really is an automations chapter and a lot to learn about how to automate so many tasks.https://bit.ly/php_llmsAll the code is there too to run a Laravel Assistant for Marketing and anything else.Next chapter is runing Standard Checking type Assistant some of the key use cases areEnsure team coding standards are...2024-10-1705 minReadOrListenMarketing Assistant and Other AutomationsHere is the summary of the Chapter from NoteBookLMMarketing Assistant and Other AutomationsThis excerpt from the book "marketing_assistant.md" describes how to build an AI-powered marketing assistant using Laravel, an open-source PHP framework, and n8n.io, an automation tool for connecting services. The book focuses on concepts rather than code, and the author uses the example of a marketing campaign for a new book to illustrate the process. The system relies on prompts and scheduling features to automate tasks, generate responses, and collect feedback, all while providing a chat interface for...2024-10-1108 minReadOrListenPHP and Open-AI Assistant Threads, File-Upload and MessagingToday, we're diving into the world of AI-powered chat systems using OpenAI's Assistant API. We'll explore how PHP developers can leverage this technology to create context-rich conversations, manage threads, and handle file uploads. From setting up an AI assistant to implementing real-time updates, we'll cover the key steps to build a sophisticated chat application that can understand and respond to user queries with depth and precision.Original article is https://medium.com/@alnutile/php-and-open-ai-assistant-threads-file-upload-and-messaging-eb19e144edee👉🏻 Buy the book "PHP and LLMs - the practical guide" https://bit.ly/php_llms👉🏻 Join the NewsLetter h...2024-10-0813 minReadOrListenPHP and LLMs — Web Scraping and Building an Events Database using ToolsThis is out of the book "PHP and LLMs". https://bit.ly/php_llmsScraping the web for data can feel like wrestling with a tangled mess of HTML. But what if you could skip the wrestling match and have a powerful AI assistant do the heavy lifting for you?On today's episode, we're exploring how Large Language Models are transforming the web scraping game. We'll unpack how LLMs, combined with cleverly designed tools, can intelligently extract and structure data from websites, all without you needing to become an HTML parsing expert. **...2024-10-0609 minReadOrListenTools Overview Enhancing LLM Capabilities - Chapter 7This is the start of 10 part series as the "PHP and LLMs" book uses NotebookLm to create discussions around each chapter.These episodes are created using https://notebooklm.google.com/🎉 Buy the book now it is 40% done https://bit.ly/php_llms📰 Join the news letter https://sundance-solutions.mailcoach.app/php-and-llmsTools Overview Enhancing LLM Capabilities - Chapter 7This is one of the most critical chapters in the book. If you understand the concept of tools and tool chaining, you will see significant changes in how you build applications. It is almost like "Event...2024-09-2807 minDevelopersHangoutPHP and LLM News 2024 Week 39Here are many of the links from this episodeAnother Coding Assistanthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VkR9Sj_dOcPlus a good Youtuber to watch imoLaravel News Interview with Me about LLMs!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRG_eZJ0CnQOne thing that came after the interview was a conversation with Eric and we found more then one way to help automate some of his more tedious daily tasks.For example he gets numerous URLs sent to him daily that he has to verify...2024-09-2809 minReadOrListenWhy LLMs - Chapter 2 of PHP and LLMs The BookThis is the start of 10 part series as the "PHP and LLMs" book uses NotebookLm to create discussions around each chapter.These episodes are created using https://notebooklm.google.com/🎉 Buy the book now it is 40% done https://bit.ly/php_llms📰 Join the news letter https://sundance-solutions.mailcoach.app/php-and-llmsWhy LLMs - Chapter 2Eight years ago, I did a Machine Learning and PHP video on YouTube, and it is still my most popular video. Back then, AWS made a service that started to make "Machine Learning" easy to host and create APIs a...2024-09-2408 minReadOrListenPrompting Overview - Chapter 5 of PHP and LLMs Take 2This is the start of 10 part series as the "PHP and LLMs" book uses NotebookLm to create discussions around each chapter.These episodes are created using https://notebooklm.google.com/🎉 Buy the book now it is 40% done https://bit.ly/php_llms📰 Join the news letter https://sundance-solutions.mailcoach.app/php-and-llmsPrompting Overview - Chapter 5Prompting is the key to unlocking the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) in your PHP applications. It's the language we use to communicate with AI, enabling our code to leverage advanced natural language processing for tasks ranging from c...2024-09-2110 minReadOrListenPrompting Overview - Chapter 5 of PHP and LLMsThis is the start of 10 part series as the "PHP and LLMs" book uses NotebookLm to create discussions around each chapter.These episodes are created using https://notebooklm.google.com/🎉 Buy the book now it is 40% done https://bit.ly/php_llms📰 Join the news letter https://sundance-solutions.mailcoach.app/php-and-llmsPrompting Overview - Chapter 5Prompting is the key to unlocking the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) in your PHP applications. It's the language we use to communicate with AI, enabling our code to leverage advanced natural language processing for tasks ranging from c...2024-09-2110 minReadOrListenSmall Teams Should focus on Dev not Ops 😱You can read the article here https://alnutile.medium.com/small-teams-should-focus-on-dev-not-ops-63d7938a314a Enjoy!
👉🏻 Ai Automation Consulting https://dailyai.studio👉🏻 Join the NewsLetter https://videos.dailyai.studio/👉🏻 Buy the book "PHP and LLMs - the practical guide" https://bit.ly/php_llms 2023-11-1514 minReadOrListenA Developer Must Help Their Client Learn To Be a Product OwnerAs 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 break down those goals into realistic achievable features. While I may get paid to code, my ultimate goal is to build the right features. And this is rarely if ever exactly what the Product owner expected.Read more https://alnutile.medium.com/a-developer-must-help-their-client-learn-to-be-a-product-owner-e178435899d...2023-10-1909 min
DevelopersHangoutWe Cover Tech Radar Volume 16 2017: Covering the "NEW" topics staging with Techniques and ToolsNews & 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:
PHPArchitect - June 2017
Protocol Buffers
by Christopher Mancini
https://github.com/christophermancini/protobuf-php-performance
NK:
Laravel’s Dependency Injection Container in Depth
https://davejamesmiller.com/2017/06/15/laravel-illuminate-container-in-depth
Deep Di...2017-07-0539 min
DevelopersHangoutDo not fear the Queue!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://developer.github.com/v4/
NK: IBM tells thousands of remote employees to come back to office or find new jobs
...2017-06-0246 min
DevelopersHangoutThis Is Why We TestNews & 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: Design Patterns - A collection of design patterns in PHP translated from the book “Head First Design Patterns”.
https://github.com/PavelLoparev/design-patterns
2017-05-0454 min
ReadOrListenWe Code in the Context of our QuotingAuthor: 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 timing. And it is this skill or lack thereof that drives the experience we are going to have when we code.
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DevelopersHangoutThoughtWorks Tech Radar - Languages and Frameworks show 4 of 4News & 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.com/
Tool(s)
Alfred Plugin to set a Do not Disturb Time
https://github.com/mlantz/DND-Alfred-Workflow
2017-03-1649 min
DevelopersHangoutThoughtWorks Tech Radar - PlatformsNews & 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-and-easy-browser-testing-for-all/
Al:
The five stages of BDD (and Agile) Adoption
http://johnfergusonsmart.com/five-stages-bdd-agile-adoption/
"define more objective metrics, preferably independent of the process you are following"
ReadOrListen version here...2017-03-0248 min
ReadOrListenThe five stages of BDD (and Agile) AdoptionAuthor: 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.html
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DevelopersHangoutThoughtWorks Tech Radar - ToolsNews & 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#.qujsg472u
Al
AWS re:Invent 2016: Life Without SSH: Immutable Infrastructure in Production (SAC318)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEuN5LkXfZk
NK: When Trump Tweets, This Bot Makes Money
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/04/513469456/when-trump-tweets-this-bot-makes-money
Deep...2017-02-0849 min
DevelopersHangoutThoughtWorks Tech Radar - TechniquesNews & 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://shippingdocker.com/dockerized-app/
Chris Fadao
NK - The Only Skill You Should Be Concerned With
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141113191054-103457178-the-only-skill-you-should-be-concerned-with
Deep Dive
Tech Radar
https://www.thoughtworks.com...2017-01-2455 min
DevelopersHangoutSlowing Down to Speed UpNews & 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
http://docs.serverless.com/v0.5.0/docs
http://serverlessconf.io/
Laravel 5.3
https://laravel-news.com/2016/06/look-whats-coming-laravel-5-3
and
https://scotch.io/tutorials/a-deep-dive-into-laravel-5-3-features
Latest Readings
Videos
Jez Humble and David
Nathan
“Zero to...2016-08-0447 min
DevelopersHangoutA Look at FeatureFlagsNews & 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 Services API
https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/
Laravel API Document Generator
https://github.com/mpociot/laravel-apidoc-generator
Latest Readings
https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar
...2016-05-3038 min
ReadOrListenDiving Into a Laravel AuditAuthor: 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 client, who was anticipating launching the product.
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ReadOrListenThere's no room for The Idea GuyAuthor: 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 going to be The Idea Guy.
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DevelopersHangoutYou're In More Control Than You Think!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
http://jackmcdade.com/blog/tired-of-waiting
Why I Strive to be a 0.1x Engineer Benji Weber
http://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2016/01/25/why-i-strive-to-be-a-0-1x-engineer/
NK - ## Multiple Authentication Guard Drivers
https://mattstauffer.co/blog/mult...2016-02-1140 min
ReadOrListenRemote Behat Testing with LaravelAuthor: 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 us to run behat tests from remote machines as well as run tests in parallel.
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ReadOrListenActiveRecord and the Beauty Lost in TranslationAuthor: 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 like Laravel’s Eloquent ORM as an Active Record implementation vs. Doctrine, the reigning mainstream (and probably only) PHP data mapper implementation. After a surge of interest in Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Hexagonal Architecture in the Laravel, and overall PHP communities, people began to detest one of...2016-01-3010 min
DevelopersHangoutThoughtWorks Technology Radar!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.bennadel.com/blog/2996-angularjs-2-beta-1-hello-world-with-es5-and-requirejs.htm
The DOs and DON'Ts of Blue/Green Deployment
http://cloudnative.io/blog/2015/02/the-dos-and-donts-of-bluegreen-deployment/
Feature Toggles
http://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html by Pete Hodgson
An Ansible Tuto...2016-01-2745 min
ReadOrListenFeature Flags In LaravelAuthor: 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 will not interfere with the application. For example if a hotfix or another feature is ready to go to production we can push that with no worries of the in progress feature.2016-01-2609 min
ReadOrListenGit Pull Causes a MergeAuthor: 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 a branch, and someone else (or the other you, if you use git to sync between multiple dev platforms) has made changes to the remote version of a branch in the meantime. It also happens really frequently in...2016-01-2403 min
ReadOrListenUsing Composer Without GitIgnoring Vendor/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 the rain of "just run composer install, it's probably mostly almost safe" criticism, but actually it's quite tricky to run Composer without excluding vendor/ from source control so I thought I'd share how we did it so that anyone who...2016-01-2103 min
ReadOrListenTDD is dead. Long live testing by David Heinemeier HanssonAuthor: 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 testing had happened before. It opened my eyes to the tranquility of a well-tested code base, and the bliss of confidence it grants those making changes to software.
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ReadOrListenLaravel and Angular Widgets e.g. Non SPA (Single Page Application) PatternAuthor: 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 angular route which can be a tedious duplication of work. Also Blade is fast and fun to work with.
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ReadOrListenDitching Scrum for Kanban — The best decision we’ve made as a teamAuthor: 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 team in terms of structure and process. But it caused major morale issues. Then we found Kanban. We implemented it and have never looked back.
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DevelopersHangoutNOSQL Show 3 of 3: Choosing the Right Tool for the Right Part of the Job#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/compute/better-together-amazon-ecs-and-aws-lambda/
##Mock Roles Not Objects
http://www.jmock.org/oopsla2004.pdf
##Simplification is the Technology Trend for 2016
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/simplification-technology-trend-2016-werner-vogels
##Laravel 5.2 New Features
https://laravel-news.com/2015/12/laravel-5-2-is-released/
...2016-01-1446 min
ReadOrListenThen Benefits of Building a Clickable POC as a DeveloperAuthor: 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 Product Owners see the possibilities that are not too far out of reach. And the second, and maybe more important thing I will cover is that the developer has a lot to gain...2016-01-1304 min
ReadOrListenIntroducing Modelling by Example by Konstantin Kudryashov read by Alfred NutileAuthor: 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 approach is that if you take Ubiquitous Language seriously and push for it in your scenarios, you open the door to doing a Domain-Driven Design while you're doing Behaviour-Driven Development's red-green-refactor cycle. By embedding Ubiquitous Language in your scenarios, your scenarios naturally become your domain model, which...2016-01-0824 min
ReadOrListenPut It All Into Version Control Even Composer!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/171
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DevelopersHangoutNOSQL Show 2 of 3: Google IO and Battle of the Backends#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.sitepoint.com/modeling-aggregate-eloquent/
Linux Academy
https://linuxacademy.com/amazon-web-services
Why you should never use proof of concept
http://www.ben-morris.com/why-you-should-never-use-a-proof-of-concept/
#Latest Readings
We are both reading "Continuous Delivery - Jez...2016-01-0550 min
ReadOrListenWhy Side Projects Are Good For MeAuthor: 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....
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DevelopersHangoutNoSQL All Up In Here: a journey into the schemaless database#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
Decouple Deployment from Release
Threat Modeling
Plans are worthless, but planning is everything
by Mike Leach
https://www.facebook.com/notes/mike-leach/plans-are-worthless-but-planning-is-everything-agile-software/10153881765378054
##Ansible’s Growth2015-12-151h 03
DevelopersHangoutEthics & DevelopmentNews & 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.exratione.com/2013/12/considering-speed-and-slowness-in-angularjs/
Secret to Facebook’s Hacker Engineering Culture
http://blog.launchdarkly.com/secret-to-facebooks-hacker-engineering-culture/
Dark Patterns
http://darkpatterns.org/
Enabling Trunk Based De...2015-11-0951 min
DevelopersHangoutThe magic of testing! It's all about perspective.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/community/articles/2008/march/production-support-and-scrum
10 of the Most Controversial Productivity Tips That Actually Work
https://blog.bufferapp.com/10-of-the-most-controversial-productivity-tips-you-will-read-today
The above article links from Work Less to
The 4 Elements of Physical Energy and How to Master...2015-10-2849 min
DevelopersHangoutSetup the World!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-php-7-support
Dissecting the PHAR Format
https://www.phparch.com/magazine/2015-2/october/
Laravel from 0 to Deploy me and a Wordpress Developer (next Drupal)
https://goo.gl/3sc6dU
To Mo...2015-10-0839 min
DevelopersHangoutClarity, Simplicity, And A Healthy Dose of SkepticismDelving 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 new features https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/json.html#json-comparison
The Operating Model That is Eating The World
http://medium.stfi.re/@aarondignan/the-operating-model-that-is-eating-the-world-d9a3b82a58852015-10-0242 min
DevelopersHangoutWhat’s in a title? How thinking of ourselves as Engineers can lead to problemsSpecial 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.remoteyear.com/
Things I was unprepared for as a lead developer
http://dev-human.com/entries/2015/09/07/things-i-was-unprepared-for/
Way less developing
Delegating
Financial management / budgeting
Hiring/Firing
Culture
Motivating
Mentoring
Feedback
...2015-09-2242 min
DevelopersHangoutFine-Tune Your Workflow NOW!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.com/laravel/framework/pull/10170
Quantum Safe Encryption
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150908-quantum-safe-encryption/
OKCupid and Other Dating Sites Leave You Vulnerable
http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/okcupid/
Why Use Docker On A Dedicated Server? : Ev...2015-09-1538 min
DevelopersHangoutPull Request Before you start Coding? And lots of newsNews & 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/
What Microsoft Got Right That JetBrains Didn’t
http://blog.dmitryleskov.com/business-of-software/what-microsoft-got-right-that-jetbrains-didnt/
Foundation 6
http://zurb.com/article/1403/foundation-6-prototype-to-production
http://foundation.zurb.com...2015-09-0740 min
DevelopersHangoutPair Programming Tools That Make Life Better But Don't Fix Annoying HumansNews & 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 (ECMAScript 6)
http://caspervonb.com/javascript/an-overview-of-javascript-in-2015-ecmascript-6/
PHP 7 Up and Running (Free Laracasts Series)
https://laracasts.com/series/php7-up-and-running
Google Material Designs
http://material-ui.com/#/components/tabs
PHPArchitect Magazine Aug - 2015
November 16–20, Washington, DC2015-08-3136 min
DevelopersHangoutWorking Remote, Better Git Messages, Agile Estimating, Vue.js, and letting reality get in the way of a good ideaNews & 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-for-a-better-commit-message
The Open Web Application Security Project OWASP
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Main_Page
Couple of interesting PDFs that cover how to work security into your project. It defines different levels of security goals etc2015-08-2457 min
DevelopersHangoutCoding Schools, Updates from Laracon, Laravel Spark, and Security Scans as Part of CINote: 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 on one main topic.
Laracon 2015 http://laracon.us/ August 11th and 12th
162 FS Restructuring An Agency with Matt Inglot
http://pca.st/g54f
Nerd Summit (Sept 11...2015-08-1241 min
DevelopersHangoutNASA Teamwork, Laracon, Code Reviews, Scrum Meets Reality, and The Tip of the CMS Iceberg!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 - The 4 Rules of Simple Design http://fullstackradio.com/episodes/22/
The mention Destroy all Software https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts
4 rules of Simple Design book https...2015-07-261h 05
DevelopersHangoutOn Time, On Budget, and High Quality. Pick two?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 http://www.laravelpodcast.com/episodes/13327-episode-30-trouble-trouble-trouble
Total Challenge in this day to day
Fire events from the controller
Podcast http://fullstackradio.com/episodes/21/ The Thought Bot Playbook http://playbook.thoughtbot.com/
Angular and Meteor https://github.com/Urigo/angular-meteor http://devchat.tv...2015-07-1551 min
DevelopersHangoutNetflix APIs, Amazon Echo, Angular 2, and The HoloLens Epiphany!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.techradar.com/us/news/software/amazon-is-betting-big-on-its-siri-like-personal-assistant-1297782?hootPostID=a9b05f57226d3d9b63e7d7257f616774
Adventures in Angular Podcast and The Road to NG2
http://devchat.tv/adventures-in-angular
John Papa learn ES6, TypeScript, SystemJS in the podcast above
What...2015-06-2844 min
DevelopersHangoutHow Will Virtual Reality Affect Us As Developers, and more...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 Architect
Are we engineers and architects ?
Zoning
Q and A
Virtual Reality and our jobs how will the Tech effect us both as remote freelancers and developers (will webs...2015-06-1741 min
DevelopersHangoutIntroductions, Microservices, Zend Certification, Standing Desks and Much More!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://laracasts.com/series/learning-vuejs
How nice the new Artisan Console syntax is http://laravel.com/docs/master/artisan
PHPMagazine
Books
Building Microservices
Zend Certification Study Guide: Third Edition
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