Tag: Blog

The blog has become silent, still I’d like to begin the year 2019 with a little retrospective, just like in  2017, 2016 and 2015.

Since there were no new posts in 2018 and I turned off the tracker, there are no new blog statistics this time, instead I’ll start with an overview where you find posts by me elsewhere.

For a while I publish more on the company blog of integer_net: https://www.integer-net.com/blog/
Continue reading “Review: 2018”

Like every year since my blog relaunch I am starting the year with a little retrospective and outlook.

Blog Stats

Continue reading “My 2016 in Review”

Happy new year to all my readers! Just as last year I begin 2016 with a retrospective for 2015 in numbers and facts, and a preview for the upcoming year.

Since my few regulars are probably mostly German speaking, I won’t write the post in English this time.

Sorry, my non-German friends!

German version

A personally and businesswise successful year has gone by and the new one is still starting slowly. Time to look back how the blog has been doing since I relaunched my site last February and set some new goals for 2015.

Hot topics

Some topics that sticked out in one way or the other:

Unit Testing

My all-time top article from 2011 [PHP] Mocking Built-in Functions Like time() In Unit Tests was still the second most visited in 2014 and I am happy to say that the concept that it introduced got some new attention:

• Matthew Weier O’Phinney (@mwop) used it to test output-emitting code. See: Mock header() in PHP to Unit Test Controllers
• Markus Malkusch developed a nice function mocking library inspired by my article, php-mock. Also he found and documented another edge case where it doesn’t work (currently an open PHP bug).

PHP 5.3 Death March

The most controversional, most discussed and most clicked article of 2014 was my announcement to drop PHP 5.3 support wherever possible to force adaption of current PHP versions (5.3 reached its end of life in August 2014 and does not get any security fixes anymore since then).

• Article: Why I Am Actively Going to Drop PHP 5.3 Compatibility
• Discussion thread on Reddit

I feel in good company because soon after, Anthony Ferrara (@ircmaxell) kicked of the same discussion on larger scale on Twitter and elsewhere with his articles about PHP versions:

1. On PHP Version Requirements
2. Being A Responsible Developer
3. PHP Install Statistics

Vagrant

I wrote a series on articles on Vagrant, specifically to introduce it for Magento developers, published on integer-net.de. Until now it is only available in German but I published an English summary in the Webguys advent calendar that covers everything to get you started: Türchen 19: Kickstart your Magento Dev System with Vagrant. Two of the four teasers on this blog made it into the top ten of 2014 (see numbers below).
Continue reading “Retrospective: The Blog 2014”