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A collection of 34 posts

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Weekly Review #14

New Laravel-Portugal podcast episode is out, the community helps out with the API project, ITsoup is stalled and FogosPT project is preparing a big update.

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Weekly Review #13

New Laravel-Portugal podcast episode, updates on Laravel-Portugal API and ITsoup projects, and contributing to the Lumen official docs repository.

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Weekly Review #12

New Laravel-Portugal podcast episode, two published packages, a retake on ITsoup's developments, and playing around with Electron.

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Weekly Review #11

New Laravel-Podcast episode and two packages originated from ITsoup's latest developments.

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Weekly Review #10

I published a new article, ITsoup's new Asset Active Directory service is ongoing and I've been interviewed for the "Inside Infraspeak" series!

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Weekly Review #9

This last week was focused on ITsoup's new Asset Active Directory service, and a new Laravel-Portugal podcast episode was released.

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Weekly Review #8

A very busy week: #2 Meetup 2020 Laravel.Portugal, ITsoup's new Active Asset Directory has started, first contributions to the Fogos.pt project, and started learning GoLang.

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Weekly Review #7

ITsoup's first service is feature freeze, and a nice podcast episode with a Portuguese core Laravel contributor.

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Weekly Review #6

Resumed developments on ITsoup, contributing to GitHub archiving program, and a new project arises!

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Weekly Review #5

Itsoup's development stalled, self-hosted videos are a thing, and another awesome episode of Laravel-Portugal podcast is available.

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Weekly review #4

Final stretch for ITsoup's Organization service, De-Google-ifying my life, retiring YouTube account, and given better purpose to Twitch account.

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Weekly Review #3

Two new articles, first beta of ITsoup's Organization Domain Service, enrollment on GitHub's sponsor program, and the end of my vacations.

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Weekly Review #2

New blog system infrastructure, GitHub actions, ITsoup's first service MVP and a new season for Laravel-Portugal Podcast.

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Weekly Review #1

The very first post of a new series I intend to do weekly. Twitch and YouTube account decisions, new article, and a new approach for ITsoup.

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My 2019 In Review

Wow! That's the perfect word to describe my 2019. So far, my best year ever! At Work My 2019 started with me leaving TBFiles and joining Infraspeak. The change came as a surprise, even to me. I was not looking for a job change, but a casual visit to the

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I had my first PR rejection

Yeah, it sucks. Last week I tried to contribute to Mohammed Said's Wink Laravel package (https://github.com/writingink/wink) in order to make it use the Laravel's default auth system, since Wik uses its own guards, register and login workflow. After a couple days of work, and a nice

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Using Deployer on a Docker container

A few days back I had the need to run Deployer [https://deployer.org/], a deployment tool for PHP, on an isolated container. This was to avoiding keeping it, as a dependency, on a project that needed to be constantly tested on a PHP version not supported by a version

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My interview on Ubuntu Portugal Podcast.

It's no surprise to anyone who knows me that I've been very disappointed with Apple's Macintosh products. The hardware has gotten next-to-zero valuable updates, except on the prices (got higher, every year). Since I work mainly with web technologies, I'm exposed to Linux environments, on a daily basis, and one

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Hard reviews, JSON Schema and stream!

Hey there. How was your day? So, today, was the Sprint Retrospective. We digressed about all situations, good and bad, about this sprint. I won't share details, of course, but we did talk about what I shared in yesterday's article: too much optimism. Everybody agreed on being more realistic. By

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Developers and story points

Hey there! How was your day? Another interesting conversation between the Team, at Infraspeak, today. We discussed why our story points' estimates were constantly off. We program each Sprint to fulfill around 130 story points (team wise for a cycle of 3 weeks for a total of 8 enginners split

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Sprint's final sprint

Hey there, how was your day? Today I continued my work on the report class. I don't think I've said this before but this is the main feature to be dispatched this Sprint (the Epic). I started talking with João, my team leader, about my difficulties until today, mainly because

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Reactive VS Proactive

Hey there! How was your weekend? Ready for another week full of opportunities? I had an amazing discussion with my colleague Gonçalo, today. We discussed when to be proactive and when to be reactive when it comes to software maintenance. I'm all about proactiveness. He was a little of both.

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Structures and clean code

Hey there! How was your weekend? Ready for another week full of opportunities? Today I started my day reading the powerful, insightful and intriguing book "Clean Code", by Robert C. "Uncle Bob" Martin. I'm still a couple chapters in but I'm already hooked on the premise of analysing code and

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Small, firm, steps

Hey there! What have you been up to? I passed all day working on a report class, which will be responsible to fetch, and process, all maintenance work done in a building (or a set of buildings). It has been a challenge, not for the task, itself, but the domain

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Normalization and mocks

I finally finished all my tasks regarding the implementation of the code sniffers and fixers on all my teammates' computers and advanced to other, more challenging tasks. The one I'm currently working on is related to reports generation. Since reports are a very sensitive part of our software, I started