May 20, 2022 10 min read
This article was first published on the Redis Developer hub. One of the most impactful additions to Redis version 7.0 is Redis Functions - a new programmability option, improving on scripts by adding modularity, reusability, and better overall developer experience. Functions are, in contrast to scripts, persisted in the .rdb and .aof files as well as automatically replicated to all the replicas, which makes them a first-class citizen of Redis.
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Sep 6, 2019 8 min read
What are bloom filters Checking for presence of an element in a set is a task we, as programmers, do very often and in many different scenarios. As those sets grow bigger and the scenarios more complex, often we start noticing a performance decrease. If you’ve ever been in this position before - read on; we’re going to talk about a valuable tool you can add to your toolset.
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Jan 25, 2018 4 min read
This article was originally published as a guest post on 24daysindecember.net, a blog about the amazing PHP community. If I were to sit down and count how many meetups and conferences I missed in my life after I became a mother, I would probably end up crying. When those little guys are born we put all our passions on hold and they become the whole world to us. After a year or two when we snap out of it and start craving our life back we face the fact that it is gone.
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Jul 7, 2014 4 min read
Some time ago I got a new job (conveniently starting the post with the excuse for not blogging anything for a long time) working on the architecture of a pretty complex software; the kind of beast I’ve never worked on in php, so after some time I felt the need of a good debugging setup. I wanted to be able to set a breakpoint, work normally in my app and be taken to it when the code execution hits that line.
Read more...Jan 23, 2014 1 min read
Note: (Written for Laravel version 4) This is just a short one.. Have you ever received an error back from your name validators, when you type in a name like “Ana Maria”? Laravel doesn’t have a built in validator for alphabetic characters and spaces, but it does give us everything we need to build one. This is how I do it: /* * app/validators.php */ Validator::extend('alpha_spaces', function($attribute, $value) { return preg_match('/^[\pL\s]+$/u', $value); }); It matches unicode characters, so poor João Gabriel won’t have his name marked as invalid anymore :)
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DELETE requests with a CSRF token to a serverJan 7, 2014 2 min read
Restful deleting in Laravel can make newcomers to RESTful APIs scratch their head a bit. I know, cause I’m one of them. We’re used to just have a simple link pointing to a certain URI where the magic happens, but how do we set the HTTP verb if we’re not submitting any forms? Well, Jeffrey Way created a nice javascript that creates a form for you and to use it you only need to add data-method="delete" to your delete links.
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Dec 9, 2013 9 min read
One day I got fed up with the way I used to compile LESS and searched for a more automated way. As I use Laravel for most of my projects I tried Basset asset manager. It worked nicely for some time than it started to have a mind of it’s own. I switched from it, but took note of the concept to store “raw” assets in the app folder. I tried Guard next; couldn’t get the LESS compiler to work.
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