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Adding metadata to an API Platform Input DTO | bitExpert
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14 Tips to Write PHP Code that is Hard to Maintain and Upgrade | Tomas Votruba
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| | Today I'll show you how to own your company. All you need to do is write code that no-one can read, is hard to refactor and creates technical debt. It's not easy, because if other programmers spot you're writing legacy code, you're busted. If you keep a low profile of very smart architect and do it right, you'll be the only one in the company who knows what is going on and you'll have a value of gold. Learn how to be **successful living vendor lock**!
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How to Hydrate Arrays to Objects via Constructor | Tomas Votruba
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| | One technology evolution sparks naturally another one. When electricity became accessible to masses, a huge industry of home-electric tools became possible. Like this tool, I currently write on. The same thing happens in software, just exponentially faster. Like tokens and AST sparked [tools that change your code](/blog/2018/10/22/brief-history-of-tools-watching-and-changing-your-php-code/). Recently, I introduced [Symfony Static Dumper](/blog/2020/03/16/statie-is-dead-long-live-symfony-static-dumper/) that uses YAML to store data in your Symfony application. You where this goes... how can **we turn this YAML into objects**?
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Refactoring Singleton Usage to get Testable Code - Qafoo GmbH
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| | So your code base is littered with singletons and using them? Don't worry, you can start refactoring them out of your code base class by class and introduce increased testability at every step. This strategy is very simple to implement and the propability of breaking your code is very low, especially when you are becoming more experienced with this technique.
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How to Deploy old Django project using NGINX, Docker and UWSGI - Yasoob Khalid
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| Hi everyone! I maintain an old website for a client that was originally developed in 2015. It hasn't been updated for the last 5 years and uses Django 1.7 and some Django extensions which haven't been updated for Django 3. I recently decided to move the website to a new server and had to repackage the Django code in a Docker container. It took me some time to get it working correctly so I hope this article can save you some time if you ever find yourself in a similar situation.