Automated testing: a step back

22 October 2020 Carmine Laface

8 minute read

The goal of this article is to define basic concepts related to testing, trying not to take anything for granted.

Why do we test??

Why is it important to write automated tests? I asked myself and I did some research because the answer to this question was not obvious to me. I knew it was important but I didn’t know why. So, I decided to try to explain it starting from a point of view as impartial as possible.

PHPDay 2020

16 September 2020 Veronica Bolognesi

4 minute read

The 2020 edition of PHPDay took place on September 8th in a remote fashion.

Having experienced the 2019 edition (indeed my first one, despite being a PHP developer from eons!) I would say that it was a little difficult to stay focused for such a long event. However, given the high-quality level of lecturers and talks, it was totally worth the effort.

I would like to thank the folks at Grusp for their passionate work. Please support them!

Lambda Days 2020

1 September 2020 Andrea Ceccarelli

4 minute read

This year, Facile attended for the first time Lambda Days Conference in the beautiful polish city of Krakow. It has been a two-days full immersion with speakers coming from all over the world. The latest trends and academic research in the functional world were showcased, spanning from beginner’s approaches to functional languages to highly specific scientific applications. This conference was totally worth attending, albeit very intense (sometimes mind-bending, actually!). All the talks were of high quality and the organization was perfect.

From zero to infinite: the Final keyword

10 July 2020 Roberto Diana

10 minute read

Google from zero to infinite

Sometimes I do a full immersion on topics of my interest, generally related to programming, topics on testing, good design, etc. I apply a technique invented by me named: “Google from zero to infinite”.

Basically I use one or more keywords in Google, then I literally follow all the links of all the pages. It is a very long and laborious activity. However, most of the time I find very interesting documents, otherwise difficult to reach. This time I decided to use the final keyword of PHP.

Operators: an overview

6 May 2020 Andrea Rinaldi

9 minute read

Introduction

Operators are useful constructors and they are present in most programming languages. They are fundamental for many operations and in this article we will provide an overview to better understand their properties.

This article is the first in a series of two about operators. Here we will make an overview of the main operators’ properties and in the next one we will discuss about some custom operators that we use in our production code.