How to gradually upgrade toward PHPUnit 6 with namespaced classes

12 September 2017 Alessandro Lai

7 minute read

In the latest months I wrote multiple times, in different projects, code migrating PHPUnit toward major version 6. This upgrade is harder than the previous one, since in this version it was introduced a big breaking change: all classes got (finally!) namespaced.

Why type hints and interfaces are not visual debt

31 May 2017 Alessandro Lai

11 minute read

A few days ago I stumbled on a strange tweet that was highlighting a controversy about scalar type hints.

Facile.it devs @ phpDay 2017

16 May 2017 Alessandro Lai

4 minute read

Like clockwork, on May we head up to Verona to attend the phpDay conference; this time it was on May 12th and 13th.

#FacileHack 2017, 10 days later

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4 April 2017 Alessandro Lai

2 minute read

Ten days ago #FacileHack 2017 came to its conclusion; this was the second edition of the hackathon organized by Facile.it. Holding an event of this kind has allowed us to see, work and discuss with many very diverse teams, made up of programmers, designers and marketers.

Using Kotlin type-safe builders to create a DSL for Forms

8 February 2017 Giacomo Bresciani

7 minute read

Here at Facile.it we are constantly dealing with a lot of forms: we use them to collect various information and data needed to feed our in-house comparing algorithms. These forms could be really complex, having multiple rules and dependencies between fields, and they are likely to be changed and tuned frequently.