Posts by Alain Schlesser

Adding Git Hooks Through Composer Dev-Dependencies

I have been working on refining my development workflow for some time now, in order to optimize the quality of my code. And as I am a big fan of automation, I tend to look for tools that just do their work in the background and only need my input when my mental processing power is truly…

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Attracting Developers To WordPress

Ryan McCue, Senior Engineer at Human Made and WordPress Core Developer, has posted a series of tweets regarding the fact that WordPress is far from an ideal platform for developers, which has spawned a lot of discussion. Yes, the fact that WP has perception problems is partially related, but even those in the community dislike working with…

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Type Declarations using Interfaces in PHP

I’ve recently completed a preliminary code audit on an existing WordPress plugin, and one of the goals I’ve set for that audit was to decouple the code from the JavaScript library it was using, so that it could easily be extended to support future versions of that library. A question came back about the constructor syntax…

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PHP Feature Detection Library

Link to GitHub Repository: PHPFeature I had a short conversation on Twitter the other day with Andrey Savchenko ( @Rarst ). He was wondering whether feature-centric PHP requirements would work in WordPress extensions. Although he was talking about the features of the “WP extensions”, I asked myself why there was no feature detection library available for PHP,…

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Is WordPress a Dependency?

I am currently on a quest to find the perfect setup for my WordPress projects (who isn’t, right?). I do think that a large part of what makes or breaks complex software projects is dependency management. And there are dependencies at every level of your projects, be they languages, libraries, servers, stakeholders, whatever. When someone…

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Woah, hold on a sec…

Hi there, how are you doing? I hope you’re comfortable… I really need you to enjoy the reading experience here on this blog, as I need you to come back from time to time. You see, I always try to stay “professional”, and “unambiguous”, and all sorts of other adjectives when communicating with clients and…

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