Topic #software-architecture – Blog

Your application needs a clock

Previously, I've discussed working with date and time values both server- and client-side, and I've covered storing temporal data in databases. This time, we're going to talk about telling time.

3 years ago5 min read

Beyond Date: bulletproof date and time API in JavaScript

I've talked about date and time not being easy in PHP, and it's not easier in JavaScript either. Luckily, similarly to the PHP ecosystem, the community has provided better solutions to date and time than the native Date. Let's discuss them.

3 years ago5 min read

Beyond DateTime: a domain-driven approach to date and time

Time is omnipresent in software development. Pretty much every web application works with it in one way or another. Even the simplest blogging platform stores "when" a post should be published and then displays and sorts them using that information. While you might not run into any issues when developing a blogging platform, any more complex system can easily expose how complicated time actually is. Because time is complicated. And yet, many standard libraries in programming languages only give us a limited arsenal to tackle it.

3 years ago13 min read

Services don't need names

I love Nette Framework's dependency injection solution. I really do. This post is here to share this passion, explaining why I think it is the best DI solution in today's PHP ecosystem.

4 years ago11 min read

Don't bring your own HTTP client

If you are developing a library that needs to make HTTP requests, here's how not to make it difficult for your consumers.

5 years ago6 min read

Body parser middleware that has your back

If you've ever implemented an HTTP API in PHP, you probably know that there's one thing you have to do over and over and over: parse the request body and validate the resulting structure. Now that we have PSR-15, let's use a middleware for that!

5 years ago7 min read

Don't just float, swim with the floating point

They say you should understand floating-point precision by 35.0000000000014. This post is here to help you: it discusses how floats are (im)precise and why, demonstrates the problems you inevitably encounter when doing math with floats, and presents ways to prevent those problems by using more proper data types and structures.

5 years ago10 min read

The frameworkless application

There's a new buzzword on the PHP block: frameworkless. The activities of PHP communities last year made it possible to build robust applications, uniquely composed of little bits, without relying on a big framework. Let's find out how they work and if it's a good approach.

6 years ago8 min read

Hello, I am Jiří Pudil

I am a full-stack web developer from Brno, Czech Republic. I contribute to open-source projects, write a technical blog, and speak at meetups and conferences.

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