There is a big myth in the world of software development. If it works, don’t touch it. Although this statement seems to be very true, this approach harbors many dangers both technically and culturally. In this article, I will evaluate…
Sometimes commands takes too much time to finish. And during its running process, your terminal should always be online! If you close your terminal or you lose your internet connection, process will interrupt. To avoid this problem, there are many…
Locking the command is basically a double run prevention. Assume that you have a hourly email command and you’re sending e-mails to users one by one. If the command doesn’t finish until next hour, you may send multiple e-mails to…
Testing command line applications is not easy. Dry Run, is a testing process usually used for command line applications. Also it allows you to simulate what will happen when you run the command. It’s kinda like running SELECT statement on…
In this series, I’m going to tell you about my experience and best practices with command line applications. I’m sure these will help you to write better command line applications. Log output or it didn’t happen! Logging is fundamental for…
If you want to measure distance between 2 points, you can use Mysql’ ST_Distance_Sphere method – comes with Mysql 5.7+. Assume that, you want to get closest user to given point: 41.0049823,28.7319855 So you’ll get distance as meter unit. Not…
If you are developing CMS software or a SaaS product, your customers needs to set their mail sending credentials for sending mails from their system. By default, you can set mail configuration to .env file. But if your customer don’t…
I started using PHP Code Style Fixer long time ago for automatically fix my code style. You can use this tool via command line. But also you can add a file-watcher for PhpStorm. It runs php-cs-fixer on every file save.…
I will not argue about Laravel’s shitty versioning system and dropping support for older versions. They are so excited, everyday adding a new feature to framework’s core. Yeah, thats really good thing but who cares fucking backward compability? Anyway, if…