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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