Too often best practices for testing are an after-thought, or a non-thought with respect to the development and deployment of code. This generally results in shortcuts or bandaids being applied to the SDLC of an organization which can build up over time and become a major constraint on the future Read more…
When you’re working with JWT Token Authentication and you want to be a well behaved software developer and build out your Unit Tests (in this case we’re using phpunit), it can be somewhat challenging to tackle out of the box. My solution here uses an inherited “service” that generates the token that Read more…
When building an Api using Symfony3, you’ll be smart to process all input through Forms, and my strong recommendation is to do so via unique form classes for each Entity. However, when doing so with custom datetime fields, you’ll need to explicitly specify a format so you don’t waste countless Read more…
Symfony3 is coming soon and with it a handful of wonderful changes and restructuring to the core directory structure of a symfony app. The new directory structure has a number of benefits, all of which are minor and may require minimal changes to your workflow. PHPUnit phpunit can now be run Read more…