patricklouys

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by patricklouys 9y ago
Jocko is great. I also really enjoyed "Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual" I think it's a little more to the point compared to Extreme Ownership.
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by patricklouys 9y ago
I was about to suggest the same books. Seeking Wisdom in particular had a big influence on me.
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Become a better developer in 2018(patricklouys.com)
4 points by patricklouys 9y ago|0 comments
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by patricklouys 9y ago
Another shameless plug: I also released my first programming book this year. Professional PHP: Building maintainable and secure applications http://patricklouys.com/professional-php/
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by patricklouys 9y ago
Modern PHP is really nice to work with. I uploaded the sample code from my book on Github if you want to have a look (check inside the src directory). https://github.com/PatrickLouys/professional-php-sample-code
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by patricklouys 9y ago
Both ruby and python seem to encourage duck-typing. I worked with both of them in the past and that's the main reason why I always came back to PHP. I need my type declarations...
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by patricklouys 9y ago
Did you write clean OOP code? You can still write bad code with it, no doubt about that.
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by patricklouys 9y ago
I'm assuming he meant the dependency manager, which is really nice. https://getcomposer.org/
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by patricklouys 9y ago
PHP also supports other type declarations. But using lots of value objects is a good idea anyway. http://php.net/manual/en/functions.arguments.php#functions.a...
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by patricklouys 9y ago
Modern PHP is very nice to work with. Ignore the haters that haven't touched the language in 10 years.
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Professional PHP: Building maintainable and secure applications(patricklouys.com)
13 points by patricklouys 9y ago|0 comments
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by patricklouys 9y ago
Start with things that don't scale. Approach people directly.
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by patricklouys 9y ago
Are you still doing that or back at a job?
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by patricklouys 9y ago
Yeah some chapters were useless for me, but I still took away a lot from that book as a PHP developer.
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by patricklouys 9y ago
Effective Java (lots of good generic OOP advice) Implementing Domain Driven Design
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Value Objects Explained(patricklouys.com)
3 points by patricklouys 9y ago|0 comments