Using front-end build tools
Free e-book guide to understanding front-end build tools aimed at designers and front-end developers
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By Gavin Davies By Gavin Davies Aspect-Oriented Programming In PHP
Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) in PHP using Just In Time code patching techniques.
By Mark Ovaska On Boundaries
In the software development process, boundaries are everywhere — in fact, they're so pervasive that we often don't notice them
By Nate Abele Comic book continuity and Git rebase
Marvellously simple explanation of a major git concept
End-to-End Functional Testing With Kahlan
How to perform End-to-End Functional Testing With Kahlan
Characterisation Tests for Legacy Projects
Legacy projects with no test coverage - time to run for the hills? Not necessarily...
By Gavin Davies 
By John Mercer In Search of the One True Gulpfile
Gulp's design can lend itself to duplication and tight coupling. How can we avoid this?
By Nate Abele AWS Lambda Workflow
AWS Lambda is hugely exciting! How can we smoothly and efficiently develop for it?
By Gavin Davies Understanding NGModelController By Example - part 2
Second part of our series on Angular's NgModelController, looking at validators
By Gavin Davies Painless Immutable Infrastructure with Ansible and AWS
A practical guide to quick and easy immutable infrastructure with Ansible and EC2
By Gavin Davies Enforcing Your Pull Request Workflow
We've seen how to get the most out of a pull request workflow, but how do you enforce your guidelines?
By Nate Abele Understanding NgModelController By Example - part 1
AngularJS’s ngModel.NgModelController can seem a bit daunting, but used properly it is extremely powerful.
By Gavin Davies Testing ES6 with Karma, RequireJS, and Angular
Simple plugin for Karma that adds shims for both ES6 and ES5. Unit test cutting edge features in AMD compliant code today!
By Gavin Davies Navigating the Minefield of Metrics
We need to steer our projects, and to do that we need data. How do we pick relevant metrics that reflect our values?
By Gavin Davies & Nate Abele By Gavin Davies Faster PHP code coverage
How we switched to a powerful new test framework without rewriting any code!
Three Myths of Software, part 3 - The Software Buyer Myth
The number three thing that lots of people believe about software... That simply isn't true!
By Mark Ovaska Three Myths of Software, part 2 - The Genius Geek
The number two thing that lots of people believe about software... That simply isn't true!
By Mark Ovaska Three Myths of Software Projects
Three things that lots of people believe about software... That simply aren't true!
By Mark Ovaska By Mark Ovaska Forward-Only Deployments
If you destabilise a system, rolling back is a good idea... Right?
By Gavin Davies Announcing Angular-G11n
As part of our secondary deliverables ethos, we’re open sourcing angular-g11n, an easy-to-use AngularJS globalization (g11n) service.
By Gavin Davies & Nate Abele The Bot Who Cried Wolf
Notification strategy for continuous deployment ... or the Signal to Annoy-us ratio
By Gavin Davies Reducing Infrustration
How switching to immutable infrastructure helped us deliver more smoothly
By Gavin Davies 4 Principles of DevOps
There are a lot of misconceptions about DevOps. Really, it's a way of thinking. We explore 4 key principles that drive our operations.
By Gavin Davies Perfect Pull Requests
A pull request workflow is pretty common, but how can we get the most out of it?
By Gavin Davies Git, Microformats and Metrics
Using metadata embedded in commit messages to better understand and optimize your work.
By Nate Abele & Gavin Davies Interfaces - the misunderstood concept
What interfaces can bring into a dynamically typed language like PHP ?
Type Hinting in PHP - Good or Bad Practice?
In the past few years, type hinting has become somewhat en-vogue in PHP, but the real question is why this technique is used, and does it makes sense for a dynamically typed language?
Overachieving Software Projects
Using secondary deliverables to get the most out of your work
By Gavin Davies