ElePHPants
Thanks to my Open Source contributions on Elephant.me, I knew that Thomas Eiling had an Elephpant that I was after for my own herd, PHPartner. This Elephpant is a somewhat recent one, having released in 2022. I sent Thomas a Tweet asking how I was best going around acquiring
Speaking
At work, every 6 months, we rent a theatre and all of our Engineering group get together for a day of talks, food and just hanging out. It's a big group, spread out all across the country, so it's great that we can have these days
Development
You may have guessed that I'm a big fan of PestPHP and one of the biggest things I love about it is how easy it is to run your tests in parallel, by simple passing --paralell flag into your run command. You can specify the number of processes
Speaking
Well, this morning was quite an interesting one as I gave a lecture to a bunch of Teesside University students and staff, which is something I've never done before! I wanted to talk about something quite general that everyone could gain something from, so I decided to talk
ElePHPants
So something really awesome happened over on Twitter recently (yes, I still refuse to call it X). Ploi which is a Server Management tool, reached out to me, to hook me up with one of their fantastic looking Ploi Elephpants, of course I was only happy to accept such a
Development
I've been looking into Livewire for quite some time now, but never really had a need to use it and the way I learn best is by working on a project that I can actually "launch" at the end of it. Well recently at work, I
General
Last month, I launched my latest package, Lawman which is a PestPHP plugin for SaloonPHP. It recently got a handful of extra attention thanks to being featured on Laravel News. This is fantastic because not only does it get the word of Lawman out there a bit more, it also
ElePHPants
The Elephpant Herd grows once again with the addition of Janusz and AFUP! Janusz is from 2019 and was the Elephpant of PHP Conference Poland. AFUP is from even further back, in 2017! Both of these were purchased from Tim Bond!
ElePHPants
I'm happy to be able to add Aida to my Herd! I've been after this one for quite some time now, not sure why it took me so long to get it given you can easily buy it from the GrUSP website! This ElePHPant was released
Development
So SaloonPHP received a new plugin this week! The plugin is called Lawman and well, actually, it's a PestPHP plugin for SaloonPHP. Saloon and Pest are two of the PHP libraries that I used on a daily basis, and I thought it was about time they met each
Development
So if you've used SaloonPHP, you'll know it's pretty awesome. In fact, I have several posts about it on this site and it's one of my favourite tools! Quite some time ago, I added the ability to run php artisan saloon:list
Development
PestPHP has had the toBeEnum() Expectation for a while now and is great to ensure your Enums are, well, Enums. I wanted to take this Expectation one step further though and introduce a way of checking that Enums are either string backed or int backed. Introducing 2 new Expectations for