This is something that came up in conversation, some friends and I were discussing deploying code, that runs in the background, to production environments. One of the things I raised was what can happen with daemon processes, should you have a very small inefficiency, given enough time to run (usually by the time it gets …
In this article I am going to cover the application of patterns within your… application. In short, I am going to show you how to use design patterns in a logical manner. Patterns are always sometimes awesome! The first thing here is that all design patterns have a purpose, every design pattern has its place. …
This is a quick-ish article about layering software design, and how to achieve layering in ways which are consistent and useful for the maintainability of your source code. I have seen it done badly I have also seen it done very well, but I thought it was worth covering. Throughout my career I have seen …
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 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 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 …
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 everyone This time I thought I would give a quick insight into the ways which I have found to be best when working with Git. Especially if you’re in the position where you’ve never had to manage or decide the direction of how to use source control. I’m sure you all know the benefits …
Hi everyone As you may know, throughout my career I’ve ended up doing a lot of integration development. Middleware, APIs, all that kind of stuff. So I thought I would write a quick list of the things you should definitely do to make your API really terrible for other developers to use, so that they …
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 …