Richard van Laak rvanlaak

Falsehoods programmers believe about time

This is a compiled list of falsehoods programmers tend to believe about working with time.

Don't re-invent a date time library yourself. If you think you understand everything about time, you're probably doing it wrong.

Falsehoods

There are always 24 hours in a day.
February is always 28 days long.
Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month).

I wanted to know: How can I get the current timestamp for UTC in ISO 8601 format to appear in the body data of a Postman request?

After reading some of the Postman documentation and online comments, this is the solution (using Postman v5.0.1 for Chrome 58.0.3029.110 on macOS 10.12.5) I used:

In the Builder, while editing a request, click the "Pre-request Script" heading below the URL field.

In the editor field that appears, enter this single line of JavaScript:

postman.setGlobalVariable('timestampUtcIso8601', (new Date()).toISOString());

Use curl to get the JSON response for the latest release
Use grep to find the line containing file URL
Use cut and tr to extract the URL
Use wget to download it

curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url.*deb" \
| cut -d : -f 2,3 \
| tr -d \" \

Strictly Frameworks

Mobiledoc - github.com/bustle/mobiledoc-kit - framework to build editors with a standardized JSON structure
ShareDB - github.com/share/sharedb - framework to sync any JSON document using operational transforms, add real-time collaborative editing to anything else
Bangle.dev - github.com/bangle-io/bangle.dev - toolkit built for building editors, based on prosemirror

Abstracted Editors

These use separate document structures instead of HTML, some are more modular libraries than full editors

Debug your PHP in Docker with Intellij/PHPStorm and Xdebug

For your local dev, create a Dockerfile that is based on your production image and simply install xdebug into it. Exemple:

FROM php:5

RUN yes | pecl install xdebug \
&amp;&amp; echo "zend_extension=$(find /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/ -name xdebug.so)" &gt; /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/xdebug.ini \

Auto use php-cs-fixer at save with PHPStorm and file watcher

Open settings ( ctrl + alt + s)
Menu file watchers
Import watchers.xml
Change settings like path for php and php-cs-fixer
Enjoy ! PSRize at save.

NB: File watchers are linked to a specific project, so we have to re-import them for each project. External tools have IDE scope but we couldn't run them automaticaly - we could set a key bind.

Update global top level npm packages

Problem

npm update -g updates all global packages and their dependencies, see npm/npm#6247.

Solution

Either use the shell script or windows batch here instead.

	<?php

	declare(strict_types=1);

	namespace Answear\DevelopmentHelpers\PHPUnit;

	use PHPUnit\Framework\Test;
	use PHPUnit\Framework\TestListener;
	use PHPUnit\Framework\TestListenerDefaultImplementation;

	stages:
	- review
	- cleanup

	variables:
	# The Platform.sh project ID.
	PF_PROJECT_ID: abcdefg123456

	push-platformsh:
	# This Docker image installs the Platform.sh CLI (and PHP, Git and SSH).

	var deleteBranches = function () {
	return $("ul[ng-show='environment.active_trail']")
	.first()
	.find("li.disabled > div > a")
	.map(function (i, b) {
	return b.text;
	});
	};

	var filterDeleteBranchesByPrefix = function (prefix) {