Hi everyone Today I thought I would do a quick post to cover RESTful APIs, and what they are. The reason for this article is that I have, on numerous occasions, encountered developers (and indeed whole teams) who have misunderstood this concept at its very core. This causes a number of problems, firstly if you …
So if, like me, you’re an object orientated programmer and are suddenly asked to build functionality into WordPress it can feel like you’re trapped into procedural code and functions. Consequently; I thought I would whip up a little tutorial of how to work within WordPress, whilst maintaining your OOP integrity. The reason this is important …
Hi everyone So today I thought I would do a quick post, as it has now been just over a year since I started as the Senior Systems Architect at Speed Agency. We’ve had an amazing year, seeing the design, development, and delivery of a number of bespoke systems, including our own modular content management …
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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Hi all So this one is going to be fairly short and simple, I hope! What I am going to cover, and this does assume so prior knowledge, is what interfaces, traits, and inheritance are; and some different use cases for them. So the first one, and maybe the easiest one to cover, first: Inheritance …
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Hi everyone, As I’m about to write another blog post, I thought it was a good idea to drop a quick line up on here to explain my recent absence from my blog. I’d been trying to post every couple of weeks, to a 3 month absence is a bit noticeable. Firstly, in December, I …
Hi folks, It’s no secret that I love Laravel, and especially love Eloquent. This post isn’t about why various people don’t like Eloquent, etc, etc. but just some “life hacks” of working with Eloquent. #1 – Naming Conventions I personally like to use the following naming convention on my databases (using a forum as an …
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 guys A really short one today, just because someone asked me about it a couple of days ago. I also though it potentially best to avoid something as controversial as my last post about Eloquent and the Single Responsibility Principle, which caused a bit of a stir during the week. So, you want to …
This is always a bit of a hot topic, especially amongst teams just getting ready to start properly managing their code through remote repositories. Disclaimer: I’m only going to talk about GitHub and BitBucket in this article. If your code is your bread and butter, your only offering; you probably should consider hosting your repositories …