Fragmented Thought

Here's the outcome of a couple weeks work, and a glass to more authors doing the same. Let's get the Vue ecosystem a little more friendly. Learn how to distribute your own Vue component packages.

Over the past few months I worked on a DotNet core framework. Some as a means of learning C, and potentially to provide my team with options for how to handle various concerns. That project never moved into use, but portions of it turn out to be very useful for general knowledge. I'm keeping the source code for this one a little closer to the chest. If you'd like to talk through what I found, feel free to ping me. Twitter might be easiest. At a high level, I covered these concerns: 

Ran into an interesting question from a coworker. We were working through surprising (to me) PHP behavior on the usage of self:: vs static::. It's a question of late binding and the accessor. For a PHP reference to get a class's extended constant value from the subclass, you had to use static::.

Azure DevOps has been great to me. I'm hugely thankful for the toolkit it's provided, but it falls down a little when it comes to PHP.
Today our systems guy Eric and I figured out how to provide the authentication required by the composer install steps to pull private git repositories out of our Azure Repos.

Start first by declaring your composer.json repository and dependencies as normal: