Dave Marshall davedevelopment

Notes

This is the latest version of an email which I send periodically, offering customers the opportunity to pre-pay for SaaS in return for a discount. The benefits to the SaaS company are better cash flow and reduced churn rate. The benefits to the customer are, well, in the email. This genre of email has produced hundreds of thousands of dollars in pre-pays for some companies I work with, and it rarely requires any more work than this example.

I've put $79 is as a placeholder for the cost of the user's plan. We calculate that for each account, naturally, along with the billing contact's name.

Subject: Save $79 on Appointment Reminder (and get a tax write-off) Formatting: 100% plain text. Gmail automatically links up the central link. From: Patrick McKenzie (Appointment Reminder) [email protected]

Multi-Threading in PHP with pthreads

A Brief Introduction to Multi-Threading in PHP

Foreword
Execution
Sharing
Synchronization
Pitfalls

Never Expose DB Results Directly

If you rename a field, then your users are fucked. Convert with a hardcoded array structure.
Most DB drivers [for PHP] will show integers as numeric strings and false as "0", so you want to typecast them.
Unless you're using an ORM with "hidden" functionality, people will see passwords, salts and all sorts of fancy codes. If you add one and forget to put it in your $hidden array then OOPS!

Use the URI sparingly, and correctly

Use the query string for paired params instead of /users/id/5/active/true. Your API does not need to be SEO optimised.
?format=xml is stupid, use an Accept: application/xml header. I added this to the CodeIgniter Rest Server once for lazy people, and now people think it's a thing. It's not.

Making behat use phantomjs for the tests

If you want to run it on phantomjs (a headless browser) you can add this profile to your behat.yml and you need phantomjs >= 1.8.0

phantomjs:
    extensions:
        Behat\MinkExtension\Extension:
            base_url: http://dev.local
            goutte: ~
            selenium2:
 wd_host: "http://localhost:8643/wd/hub"

To toast:

Make sure you have ImageMagick installed (brew install imagemagick)
Change line 7 of toast.rb to the repository name you're working with
toast!

$ bundle install
$ ./get_token [user] [pass]
$ export GHUSER=[myuser]

	vars:
	starfighters:
	- username: patrick
	github: patio11
	name: "Patrick McKenzie"
	- username: thomas
	github: tqbf
	name: "Thomas Ptacek"
	- username: erin
	github: boboTjones


	npm_bin:=$(shell npm bin)
	psc=$(npm_bin)/psc
	bower=$(npm_bin)/bower

	outdir=target

	all: $(outdir)/js/HelloWorld.js

	$(outdir)/js/HelloWorld.js: src/HelloWorld.purs

	<?php
	/**
	* This file is an example gist to show the interaction between an ArticleContext and a LikeContext
	*
	* @example:
	*
	* We have to bounded contexts: ArticleContext and LikeContext and show the simplified process of following use case:
	*
	* In order to create a valid article Like, I should validate the article ID given to the LikeContext.
	*

	<?php

	use \Phpmig\Adapter;
	use Sensio\Bridge\Phpmig\ContainerAdapter;

	require_once __DIR__ . '/autoload.php';
	require_once __DIR__ . '/AppKernel.php';

	$kernel = new AppKernel('dev', true);
	$kernel->boot();

	<?php

	namespace Sensio\Bridge\Phpmig;

	use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface;

	/**
	* The ContainerAdapter allows the Symfony DIC to be used with phpmig. Phpmig is the tool that's used for executing
	* migrations on the application and expects a service container that implements \ArrayAccess. This is achieved by
	* wrapping Symfony's DIC with an adapter that implements \ArrayAccess and proxies to the DIC.