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 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 …
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 all This is a really quick tutorial, because frustratingly I couldn’t find one that offered me this quick guide that had an integrated approach to doing this. I’m going to mostly cover the bits that I had to learn myself through Googling etc. in the hope that you won’t have to waste hours on …
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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 …
Hi there everyone Something I’m often faced with, having lots of friends with varying degrees of programming experience, is how do (PHP) developers move from sub 25k roles to the higher end of the spectrum, the 35-60k developer roles. Generally, in my experience, the are some key differences in the salary expectations and the skills …
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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 …