So this is a topic I thought I would touch on, having worked in lots of environments, on lots of projects, with varying different sets of priorities; I have noticed a few different things; with some very common characteristics across almost all development teams. The first is that there is a two fold problem when …
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You, yes you, are the worst programmer or web developer in the world. Without a shadow of a doubt. In someone’s opinion. The thing about programming or building anything is that it’s almost entirely subjective. Of course there are certain things which are categorically bad like lazy developing, obvious bugs, security vulnerabilities and terrible performance …
Hi everyone I thought I would discuss a controversial one today, in order to give an articulated response to a common argument about Eloquent (and generally the Active Record pattern) Firstly, just in case you don’t know, here are some definitions: Single Responsibility Principle: The “S” in the “SOLID” principles. In short, this means one class …
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Hi guys I keep promising that I will be posting frequently, and then life happens. I will continue my posts and tutorials and trying to share and disseminate things I’m learning or have learned over the course of my career. I’m incredibly lucky, not only do I have my own experiences and exposures to draw …
Tonight is just a quick one, not my usual essay. I was just curious to see what other people though. Being a PHP Developer I primarily work within LAMP environments. Occasionally having swapped out Apache for Nginx, but I am by far a specialist. Until recently I was able to jump around through the Linux …
Warning: This is quite an old article. Since then on this topic I have posted another about Dependency Injection: Dependency Inversion and Interface Segregation using Laravel’s Service Container Good evening everyone. I’ve been meaning to write a post about this for a little while, it’s a common discussion point within developers working on enterprise level …
So this week I thought I would do a quick article, a bit of an open letter to recruiters, really. Throughout my career, especially when I was contracting, I have had a really rocky relationship with recruiters. I have to say some agencies have been an absolute pleasure to deal with, others have been down …
In this article I am going to share with you some of my thoughts about the business aspect of web development, and how that needs to apply to our principles as web developers (or indeed contributors to any project). As programmers, developers, coders, whatever you want to call us, we solve many problems. In essence …
This feels a bit ominous now. I decided to start a blog. To document the the cool stuff I am working on, to share some knowledge and some tutorials and to discuss some of the different ways which development is approached. Realistically this is likely to be a bit of a sporadic thing about some …