Perfection

Ever felt the frustration of inheriting a codebase with introduced code that no one actually understands why they were added? Well, I get it. This is not a talk about atomic commits or [...]

For most of my early career, I was told the only path up was through management roles. Our market has since evolved, and Staff+ engineering roles are more common and offer us a [...]

Iterators could save your day on many occasions. Everyone has already been bothered by memory overflows when trying to manage too big collections in PHP. These are omnipresent in the most famous PHP [...]

The best way to understand application security is to try breaking into your own web applications, and there's a free open source tool with support from leading industry players to help you do [...]

Naming namespaces, classes, and variables in code is a common and hard problem! Name something wrong and it will end up needing to be refactored. This talk will focus on the best strategies [...]

You followed all the rules: TDD, SOLID, CUPID and of course DDD. But when refactoring time comes, you still have to touch all those pesky tests. You thought refactoring meant not changing the [...]

Manually testing your own API endpoints using PostMan or an equivalent tool takes a lot of time. Testing them through unit tests will only test a part of our application, and often skips [...]

What do you think about when you hear the term "gamification" applied to your job? An employee-of-the-month challenge? Maybe some badges you can achieve? A public team ranking? The term "gamification" always sounded [...]

What do you think about when you hear the term "gamification" applied to your job? An employee-of-the-month challenge? Maybe some badges you can achieve? A public team ranking? The term "gamification" always sounded [...]