Frederick Vanbrabant's

Posted 9 May, 2019
About 5 mins to read

You have probably already heard the horror stories of code interviews where they ask you to reverse a binary tree on a whiteboard. Well, a few days ago I was in that exact situation. And I had no idea what the interviewer was talking about. So what are these binary trees and why is it so critical that you know how to inverse them? Let's find out.

Posted 3 April, 2019
About 5 mins to read

One of my favourite types of classes is a value object. For those not in the known, a value object is a small class that holds a value with a tiny bit of extra logic surrounding it. Sounds simple enough right? I think a nice way of looking at these classes is implementing them as an extension of the type system of your programming language. Let take a look at an uncomplicated example.

Posted 13 December, 2018
About 6 mins to read

Monday morning. Your previous project just wrapped up, and they are going to assign you a brand new one. They even promised you the lead on this project. Who said Mondays couldn’t be great? A few hours later and you are staring at the most dreadful code you have ever seen — controllers of more than a thousand lines, PHP that injects jQuery in the views, raw SQL statements that could challenge a Dostoyevsky novel in size. The list goes on and on. This Monday is going to need a ton of coffee.

Posted 8 October, 2018
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A few weeks ago I attended a DDDBelgium meetup where I was lucky to participate in a refactor workshop lead by Pim and Joop. After the incredible workshop Pim, Dries and me were discussing some code that we refactored earlier . Not so long in the conversation the words “Integration Operation Segregation Principle” casually got dropped by Pim.

Posted 24 July, 2018
About 14 mins to read

We've all been there before, you submit a pull request and moments later you get a comment like: 'Hey you should use a native function here, they are so much faster' or 'You can declare this final, that way we save some processing power'

Posted 7 December, 2017
About 4 mins to read

These days I’m all into atomic commits and it really made my work beter. Never heard of that concept? No worries, let me introduce you to it

Posted 24 July, 2017
About 7 mins to read

Microservices can solve a lot of architectural problems, and sometimes create a few fun new ones. A big problem however is connecting these services to each other. Can GRPC lend a hand here?

Posted 2 July, 2017
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In 2038 a bug that will apear that might trigger a strong feeling of déjà vu to the Y2k craze. The Y2k38 bug seems to come at a very random moment, but it all makes sense if we apply a bit of computer science to it.

Posted 12 June, 2017
About 7 mins to read

Why is it that most legacy software projects are not really fun to work on? How can we stop that greenfield project to turn into one of those dull big projects? I would argue that it’s all in the foundation.

Posted 31 May, 2017
About 6 mins to read

So everyone is talking about this hip “new” kid on the block for PHP: Generics. The RFC is on the table and a lot of people are getting all excited about it, but you don’t fully see the excitement? Let’s explore what it’s all about!

Posted 13 March, 2017
About 6 mins to read

After a recent burst of inspiration at PHPUK Sam and I ran an experiment to see how much we could improve our company site in just 4 hours. Turns out it was far easier than we expected

Posted 29 January, 2016
About 4 mins to read

We shall not be discussing the ethics or possible political impact this brings with it. We will however propose a starting point on **how** to implement them.

Posted 16 November, 2015
About 15 mins to read

So you want to build a web API. You have to start somewhere, why not here