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Clean Code Concepts Adapted for PHP

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftmanship is a classic programming book about writing maintainable code through principles, patterns, and lots of practice. Developers have adapted the examples provided in Clean Code into many programming languages. Inspired by clean-code-javascript, there’s a PHP version on Github that you should check out: https://github.com/jupeter/clean-code-php.

Lumen 5.5 Is Released

Lumen 5.5 is now released and available for all. This is considered a maintenance release that upgrades the underlying packages to the Laravel 5.5 series. Before upgrading your application to Lumen 5.5, you should review the Laravel 5.5 upgrade guide and make any applicable changes to your application according to which Laravel components you are …

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Laravel Certification Program Announced at Laracon 2017

A licensed Laravel certification platform was announced at Laracon EU this week, and a new landing page is up at laravel.com/certification/. The Laravel Certification is a Human Music B.V. product and is officially licensed by Laravel LLC.

All of the Laracon US 2017 Videos are now available

StreamACon released twenty-one videos from Laracon US so you’ll be able to relive the whole event and catch up on anything you may have missed.

Quickly Edit Your Theme Colors and Fonts in PhpStorm

PhpStorm has released a new feature that allows you to quickly find and edit the theme style for a given line you want to change. Learn how to customize your theme colors and fonts quickly.

GitHub Embedded Code Snippets

GitHub rolled out embedded code snippets this month which should make it easier to share existing code without having to re-create it in a comment. Learn now use embedded snippets to collaborate on code in pull requests and issues.

New Laravel String Helpers in 5.4 and 5.5

New string helpers are finding their way into Laravel leading up to the big 5.5 release, which is planned to drop during Laracon EU 2017. Here are some of the recent highlights in the String helper class, that has been getting some love lately.

Kubernetes at GitHub

Over the last year or so, GitHub has been experimenting with and integrating Docker containers with Kubernetes. Learn some high-level details of their journey in adopting Kubernetes for github.com and api.github.com.

Google Chrome Puppeteer for Headless Automation

The Google Chrome DevTools team released Puppeteer, a Node library which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome over the DevTools Protocol. Learn about the ways you can use Puppeteer to automate web browser tasks with headless Chrome and Node.

Manage Laravel Forge Servers from Android with ForgeApp

Learn about ForgeApp, a free Android application for managing Laravel Forge servers.

Bootstrap 4 Releases Its First Beta

Bootstrap CSS has just released its first beta release of the new version 4 codebase.

Watch the Laracon US Keynote by Taylor Otwell

StreamACon just released the first Laracon US conference video and it’s Taylor’s keynote. During this talk, he goes through some of the new Laravel 5.5 features and finishes by announcing Laravel Horizon. You can watch it now on the StreamACon website and the remaining talk videos will be released in two weeks. Lead photo by …

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