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Upgrading Wdebelek to krakboem 1.0

Johan Vervloet — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 14:42:00 GMT

As I mentioned in a previous blog post, I recently released version 1.0 of rva-vzw/krakboem, the custom php library I created to use event sourcing and CQRS in my applications. It comes together with a Symfony bundle, rva-vzw/krakboem-bundle, which is now at version 0.1.2.

The first project to use version 1.0, was dikdikdik, the score app for the wiezen card game. This is one of my pet projects, in fact the one that I regulary work on. So in order to test if the krakboem-bundle and the updated krakboem actually worked, I tried to use them for dikdikdik. As everything seemed to work fine, I tagged it krakboem 1.0.

After that, I wanted to use krakboem 1.0 in wdebelek, the app I wrote in covid-times, to play cards online.

Wdebelek also uses krakboem, but it is different in that it uses event based entity repositories instead of deciders. So I had to figure out if this would work out fine as well. And while doing he upgrade, I had a nice chance to improve the upgrade instructions for krakboem 1.0.

I can't say the update was an easy one. Krakboem 1 requires php 8.3 and Symfony serializer 6. And for krakboem-bundle, I need Symfony 6.4. All this means that I had to update some other dependencies as well. For php 8.3, it mainly came down to updating a package here and there. But since until last week, Wdebelek was built on Symfony 5.3, I had quite some work with the Symfony upgrades. (update 2024-02-14: Especially the new recipes for codeception 5 were not straightforward.)

The update of kraboem, from v 0.11 to 1.0, was also not trivial. Lots of classes moved around. And quite some abstract base classes became read-only, a concept I wasn't aware of back in 2020. (update 2024-02-15: Identifiers are now expected to be non-empty as well. This was also quiet an update.)

But since last week, the 4th of february to be exact, wdebelek is running with the latest versions of my libraries. It still needed a blog post, but hey, here it is, so I am a happy programmer again. (Writing the blog post took me a week, because of, you know, life.)

If you want to try playing cards with Wdebelek, you have to find at least 2 other people to play, and go to kaart.rijkvanafdronk.be. Remember that you need to drag the cards to play them. (This is not really clear from the UI, and it often causes some confusion).

I still have one project to update: 1jg, another score app for another game. This will probably a little easier than the Wdebelek update, because 1jg is already on Symfony 6.3. And of course I now have nice upgrade instructions for krakboem and its bundle now 😉.

PHP event sourcing aan de kaarttafel

Johan Vervloet — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 18:26:00 GMT

Vandaag ga ik eens wat dieper in op de inner workings van WDEBELEK, de webtoepassing die ik schreef om online te kaarten (wiezen en gelijkaardige spelletjes).

Want het is niet alleen erg fijn dat we in tijden van quarantaine en avondklok nog kunnen kaarten, het is ook bijzonder cool dat de achterliggende software gebruik maakt van event sourcing; dat is toch alleszins wat ik probeer.

Mijn bedoeling is om jullie in al dit moois in te leiden aan de hand van de wijzigingen in de code die nodig waren voor een nieuwe feature die ik onlangs inbouwde: het opnieuw open leggen van een slag die eigenlijk al opgeraapt was.

Quarantaine whist with WDEBELEK

Johan Vervloet — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 14:18:00 GMT

Now that the daily number of new COVID-19 infections is increasing, and people are talking about the possibility of local lockdowns, chances increase that card playing evenings will be canceled because of corona reasons.

But, as opposed to the previous lockdown, now there is an easy solution to play solo whist remotely. Because I work on a web application for online card playing: WDEBELEK.

It is still a young application, with a lot of loose ends, but it has been tested extensively, and it seemed to be useful. How does it work:

Find 3 to 5 friends that want to play cards with you.
Start a video conference with these friends, using your favourite video conferencing tool.
Create a card table at kaart.rijkvanafdronk.be.
Create invitation links, and pass them on to your friends.
Play cards!

We do have a basic manual, but that's in Dutch. (If anybody wants to translate it to English: let me know.) Anyway, the use of the application should be straight forward.

Source code is freely available under the conditions of the AGPL v3 or later. And you can use the software for fee; that is: as long as my server can handle the load.

Enjoy!

Dikdikdik: a Wiezen (Solo Whist) score app

Johan Vervloet — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 16:03:00 GMT

For some time I've been working on a web application that helps you keeping track of the score if you want to play the Wiezen card game. Wiezen, as we play it, is called solo whist on Wikipedia.

Yesterday this score application (in Dutch, sorry) reached version 1.0. So I thought it would be appropriate to announce this release on my blog.

Admittedly, the user interface leaves a lot to be desired. But it turned out a very cool application (imho), with a nice event sourced backend, and gitlab pipelines that automatically test new source code. 🤓

The score app follows the whist game rules as set by Rijk van Afdronk vzw. The application can be tested (as long as my vps doesn't die) at score.rijkvanafdronk.be; source code can be found on gitlab.