Autoloading in PHP

Autoloading is a feature of PHP, that you can’t live without in today’s world. A file is automatically loaded, when a class name with namespace is supplied.

In the background a configuration is used, often via composer, that finds a file for a class name.

The art of being remembered

I’ve been asked a common question again and again recently. Junior QA and junior developers are afraid they won’t get a foot in, not get their first job.

The following are a few tips I’ve given in the hopes of helping them solve the issue. The tips are…

What is in a name?

Tips, tricks and guidelines on naming the important parts in your software.

This is a followup on a quick discussion about naming I had with Vladyslav Verpeta, the author of…

SuiteCRM Performance Optimization

SuiteCRM 8.3 is a very powerful tool. Next to managing contracts, support cases and a knowledge base, it is very easy to expand. It has one major problem though, it is insanely slow in a php default configuration.

PHP Optimization

Optimizing for performance

I’ve seen and created a lot of performance optimizations over the last few years. From multi million line projects to tiny microservices, every project at one point or another needed some attention.

Know when to optimize

Disappointing success: A story about duplicate styles

A while back we started working on creating a documentation website for @idrinth/api-bench, my small rest benchmarking framework. While the website is written in React and only has around 400 lines of css, I still noticed a disturbing…

Why I choose TypeScript over JavaScript

There has been a few posts about people and frameworks quitting TypeScript for the overhead it introduces, I’m somehow moving in the opposite direction, building more and more.