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Recent Posts
Blocking vs non-blocking fonts
Just the other day I found out about the font-display: swap; css directive. It basically allows you to configure the browser to load the webpage first and th...
Symfony State Machines and Domain Driven Design
It has been just over 2 years since Symfony released their Workflow component. I was of course thrilled by the news and started to work on multiple PRs to m...
Define Symfony access control rules in a database
I was recently at a PHP conference in Odessa where I met many great developers. One of them asked me a question, that the answer was not obvious. His use ca...
Testing the Symfony 4.1 router
How much faster is the new Symfony router in a real world application?
Manage your workflows efficiently
This post will cover how to use a ProcessManager class together with Symfony’s workflow component.
Generate URLs in Symfony commands
It has been great many years since Symfony 2.0 was released. 2.0 did not have as many great features as Symfony 4.0, but it was flexible and you could still...
What is efficiency?
The answer may be trivial. Efficiency is when you work as hard as you can and as quick as possible to complete a task. The answer could also be a bit more co...
Always use caret instead of tilde
I’ve been noticing people having trouble understanding the differences between the caret (“^”) and the tilde (“~”) operator in the composer.json file. Compos...