• Symfony

    Symfony

    Symfony is one of the most mature PHP Frameworks and many large Webapplications are built on it. Many newer Frameworks utilise and integrate Symfony components. A solid foundation and widespread industry adoption often make it the go-to toolkit for non-trivial projects. Symfony ist eines der ausgereiftesten PHP Frameworks und wird bei in vielen großen Webapplikationen…

  • Dart & Flutter

    Dart & Flutter

    Normaly I’m not a sucker for new programming languages that pop up seemingly out of nowhere. I was notably skeptical about Ruby and the Rails hype and even with languages that the world needs – such as Rust and Go – I do support them, but don’t jump all over them right away. Dart however…

  • The Essence of Agility

    The Essence of Agility

    „Agile, Agile, Certified Scrum, … BULLSHIT!“ – that was the initial title of this post. Good for a splash and effect, but a tad negative, I admit. 😏  So I’ve taken the liberty to update the title to a more positive and meaningful one. Same with the permalink. The rest remains the same. – PR,…

  • Obtain SSL certificate Information before redirect

    Obtain SSL certificate Information before redirect

    If you need to know information on a web ssl certificate, but the accompaning URL redirects inmediately, it can be difficult to optain that information. Here’s how you do it in the CLI: openssl s_client -connect foo.example.com:443 < /dev/null | openssl x509 -text

  • Apache Reverse Proxy Configuration

    Apache Reverse Proxy Configuration

    Despite rumors to the contrary, configuring Apache as a reverse proxy isn’t all that hard. Here’s an example:   

  • prooph – PHP CQRS & Event Sourcing

    prooph – PHP CQRS & Event Sourcing

    PHP remains awesome and gets more awesome every day. Here’s a very neat CQRS & Eventsourcing Lib in PHP.

  • New EU Regulations in 2019: PSD2 SCA & 3D Secure 2

    New EU Regulations in 2019: PSD2 SCA & 3D Secure 2

    PSD SCA 3D Secure 2.0

  • Directus & Cockpit

    Directus & Cockpit

    Two headless SSG & Cloud CMS built with PHP. These look promising. Directus Cockpit

  • The JAMStack Approach

    The JAMStack Approach

    Tearing ties between frontend and backend apart, going headless or at least ‚headlose‘, brazenly moving dynamic logic to the client and decoupling as much as possible into disparate microservices. This probably is the way to go forward in the 2020ies for web content. One degraded WordPress project to many has me seriously looking into this…

  • Sass Guidelines

    Sass Guidelines

    Very useful.

  • Lumen

    Lumen

    Lumen, a PHP Microservices Framework.

  • Gatsby & WordPress

    Gatsby & WordPress

    Gatsby WordPress Guide Gatsby WordPress Source Plugin Tutorial

  • Content Management Systems

    Content Management Systems

    FOSS Content Management Systems Plone Joomla ExpressionEngine WordPress Drupal Typo3 Grav Anchor Koken Textpattern Fork ModX SimpleCMS CMSimple Bludit Neos SilverStripe Non-FOSS & Semi-FOSS Systems Statamic EZ Publish Craft Ghost MovableType Kirby Content Management Services Prismic Contentful Static Site Generators & Headless CMS (FOSS) Hugo Gatsby Directus Cockpit Nuxt Jenkyll Hexo

  • What makes a good Software Developer

    What makes a good Software Developer

    Software developers need the creativity of an artist, the thoroughness and competence of an engineer and the patience with humans of a doctor.

  • Gatsby – ReactJS Static Site Generation

    Gatsby – ReactJS Static Site Generation

    Gatsby is a Static Site Generator built around ReactJS. Here are some links: Gatsby Moving to Gatsby Gatsby Starters What makes Gatbsy great

  • Flow

    Flow

    Flow. Static typechecking for JavaScript. Very nice.

  • The Gulp API Documentation

    The Gulp API Documentation

    Very useful. Obviously.

  • Interview mit Martin Fowler zum Thema Refactoring

    Interview mit Martin Fowler zum Thema Refactoring

    Martin Fowler Interview

  • Professionelle Webentwicklung und Frickelbuden

    Professionelle Webentwicklung und Frickelbuden

    Als erfahrener Websoftware­­entwickler werde ich immer wieder mit mitunter seltsamen Anforderungen und Anfragen konfrontiert. Oft ergibt sich hier bei einem Sondierungs­gespräch die Frage, was ich denn mit „Professioneller Webentwicklung“ meine. Hier dazu eine Erklärung:

  • Software Project Anti-Patterns

    Software Project Anti-Patterns

    Here are some of the key things I’ve seen lead to problems in software projects, most of which are not directly related to the core development (design, build, and test) of the project.