Most web developers cringe when they hear of TDD (test-driven development). Well, I did when I was asked to program with TDD first. When you are starting off, it feels overwhelming. If you resist it, it will make it harder for you to learn it. So what should you do…

Many developers new to health informatics, just like me a few years back, have so many questions about what is HL7 and HL7 messages. When someone looks at the message, it’s just like any pipe delimited string. But what is exactly is an HL7 message? HL7 in long form is…

You need to start TDD in NodeJS right now! Some asks why? I ask, why not? I started writing the TDD in Laravel — currently the most famous PHP web framework, with simple instructions on how to start a PHP programmer’s test driven development journey. …

Building your very first Electron app Many applications, back in the day, were made with native windows client. A user will just have to click a desktop icon and voila! Ready to use app. Fast track today, most of the applications are already in the “cloud” and is web based. Web technology for most of the…

I have been reusing my base repository class for most of my projects. And with every project, I keep on missing new methods I created from the last update. So now, I created a package for it. I call it: Base Repo Package Here’s the readme file:

After the articles on unit testing and negative unit testing, let us take a look into Feature testing. These tests are hitting your controllers and asserting if the responses are correct. I would still use my carousel example from the previous article. Create carousel feature test In testing the feature of your application, make…

As part II of the CRUD Unit Testing in Laravel 5, we continue with negative testing. What we have in the previous article is testing the positive side; say it CAN create, update, show or delete the carousel we are trying to do. Now let us test the opposite, what…

Recently, I started an open source e-commerce application called LARACOM made with Laravel together with Rob Gloudemans’ shopping cart and other related e-commerce packages. When starting this project, I have to think of the long term so never in my mind that I will not use the TDD (test driven…

Laravel passport is a great package to authenticate your user to your web or mobile app. It uses the OAuth2 package by phpleague underneath. It should solve most of the API developers problem on the authentication side. While Laravel Passport is useful to most developers, it is still a puzzle on how to authenticate multiple (user) models within it since underneath(by default), it looks on the users table only.