DonCallisto

Joined: April 22, 2016
Articles: 20
Comments: 7

Symfony 5: The fast track Italian edition

open source, PHP, Symfony

Symfony 5: the fast track, updated (5.2)

Hey folks, DonCallisto here. Just a little update. Since today is available the new version (5.2) of Symfony 5 official book named “Symfony 5: the fast track”. We have proudly helped with the translation, in italian language, of the first…

DonCallisto
10/03/2021

PHP, Symfony, TDD

Next stop: Codemotion – Italian Edition 2021

Hey folks, DonCallisto here. I’m glad to announce I’ll be speaking at next Codemotion online tech conf – Italian edition that will take place online in March (my workshop is listed in “Frontend” section, but I’m sure it’s a mistake).…

DonCallisto
02/03/2021

PHP, Symfony

Sfday Italy, Virtual Edition: Stop Mocking Everything

On Friday, November 20th the first sfday Italy Virtual Edition will take place. This will be the first 127.0.0.1 edition as, unfortunately, we cannot join together in Verona due to Covid-19 restrictions. But Covid-19 didn’t stop the conference from taking…

DonCallisto
10/11/2020

composer, PHP

Composer conflict, how can we use it?

Today I found a very useful Composer schema package link option named conflict, which is useful when third-party code you rely on is too permissive for your needs. At the time of writing, the conflict man page states Lists packages…

DonCallisto
13/12/2019

Symfony

Composition over inheritance: tackle the “Template Method”

In this article we’re gonna talk about composition over inheritance but not approaching this topic from a theoretical point of view (you can find dozens of good articles online by googling the topic), but instead by providing an example of…

DonCallisto
06/05/2019

Design Patterns, PHP, Software Development

About inversion of control

Introduction Inversion of control seems to be a tricky topic among developers and every developer declins it in its own way. Searching on the web it seems that first usage of this term – that is not a pattern, rather…

DonCallisto
16/10/2018

Symfony

SymfonyDay 2017 videos

As written before we have taken part in Symfony Day. Couple of days ago video of the event were uploaded and you can check them out here We would be happy to have feedbacks so, don’t hesitate!

DonCallisto
14/12/2017

PHP, Symfony

Symfony form pills – let’s play with transformers

Symfony form is a standalone component you can use to save a lot of time when developing an application that needs forms to interact with users (checkout my talk and slides from SfDayIt 2016 in Rome) As every powerful component/library/extension, power…

BDD, PHP, PHPSpec

Method order assertion in PHPSpec: Deferred Expectations

Disclaimer This post title can be misleading. Method order is just an implementation detail that should not be tested as PHPSpec philosophy is to test your public API, not the implementation as it would lead to fragile tests. Fundamentalists might say…

DonCallisto
24/07/2017

Symfony

Symfony form pills – form type options

Today we are going to tackle a problem that I’ve recently faced with Symfony form types. Scenario: I need a choice type of a certain entity (Foo) with values that follows a certain logic [crayon-60c6a1b14dc04761199567/] I’ve built up a FooChoiceType because…