Blog - Roelof Jan Elsinga

How I'm trying to become a better communicator

I'm trying to become a more skilled communicator to my peers and non-technical people. In this post, you'll find out how I'm attempting to do this.

Posted on: August 28th, 2019

growth

Building automatic API Stubs and/or using Mocks in PHP

Testing your code is essential if you want to write code that doesn't break your application. Find out how I'm going to use automatic stubs to test the implementation of API's instead of the actual API calls.

Posted on: August 21st, 2019

php testing

My recent open source contributions (August 2019)

Recently I've been quite active with contributing to open source projects on GitHub. Find out which packages I've contributed to and which packages of my own I've been maintaining.

Posted on: August 15th, 2019

open-source development

Taking the first steps with event sourcing in PHP

I've taken the first steps in working with event sourcing and in particular, event sourcing in PHP. It's a very confusing concept, but once I got the gist of it, I was convinced of its value.

Posted on: August 13th, 2019

event-sourcing php

Improve query performance for polymorphic relationships in Laravel

In this post I'm explaining how you can improve the query performance for polymorphic relationships in Laravel, find out how I did it.

Posted on: July 29th, 2019

laravel

Discovering the online presence of my target audience

Find out how I discovered the online presence of my target audience and what my next steps are to finding a bigger audience.

Posted on: May 11th, 2019

entrepreneurship

What waking up at 6 every morning has taught me

Waking up at 6 every morning has been a very surprising improvement in my life, find out what impact it had on my day-to-day life.

Posted on: May 1st, 2019

growth

5 reasons to start using Ubuntu

Find out what my top 5 reasons were to start using Ubuntu and why you should perhaps also use it as your primary operating system. Hint: It's amazing!

Posted on: April 21st, 2019

linux

Why I don't have comments on my blog

Find out why I haven't added a comment system on my blog. It has been left out very intentionally, maybe it's something you should consider too.

Posted on: April 10th, 2019

blogging

How to Pick Right Configuration File Type for Your Project

Find out which file types I use for certain scenarios and which situations suit a specific file type best. We’ll dive into JSON, YAML, XML, and dotenv.

Posted on: April 4th, 2019

development