PHP introduces WeakMap datastructure with version 8.0. This new data structures is capable of containing objects while simultaneously enabling them to be cleared via garbage collection once not needed anymore. WeakMap is a evolution of weak references added with PHP 7.4 and enables the development of collections of references that can be subjected to garbage … read more …
The beginning of this week was a little bit more action packed than planned. After a couple of weeks of coding and intensive testing (seriously!), @rauchbar and me were of the opinion that the feature is production ready and could be deployed. But well, shit happens when you least expect it. PHP Stacktrace As developers, … read more …
The last few days, I was busy getting started with Vagrant. Vagrant is a nice tool to create a development environment to ‘just start’ developing. New team members, for instance, do not need to set up, but can simply run ‘vagrant up’ to have a fully configured, ready-to-start environment. Personally, in my case, it is … read more …
Recently, we deployed another milestone of didapptic.com, the platform for evaluating mobile apps for teaching. So far, didapptic enables users to add apps to the database and give them a rating from a teaching point of view and edit or delete them. Didapptic fetches app data, such as descriptions and screenshots, from the iTunes/Google Play … read more …
The last few weeks, I was focused on algorithms and data structures. I have been working my way through “Cracking The Coding Interview” and created a PHP library based on this book. I splitted interesting topics, such as dependency resolving using topological sorting, out into separate projects and released them under the MIT lincese on … read more …
Didapptic.com is a research based web application that measures Android and iOS Apps from a didactic point of view. Actually, we work on a new release in order to provide a fresh layout and smarter handling of app data. Among other things, the new release introduces also a new user management handling which allows and/or permits … read more …
Frankfurt, May 2018 – Today, the first BETA version of PHPAlgorithms is launched! The repository is available via GitHub and Packagist. Originally launched as a research project, PHPAlgorithms provides currently a basic set of data structures. The repository has been designed to provide simple usage of common data structures such as lists, maps and trees. … read more …