Ralph Schindler's Blog: Exception Best Practices in PHP 5.3
Ralph Schindler has put together a new post for his blog about some of the best practices for using exceptions in PHP 5.3 - specifically dealing with some of the new functionality that comes with this...
View ArticleStubbles Blog: On annotations and logic
On the Stubbles blog there's a recent post that talks about a feature they introduced into the framework - annotations - with high hopes it would give them more flexibility in how things worked. As...
View ArticleMarco Tabini's Blog: The lost art of using your brain
In a recent post to his blog Marco Tabini talks about what he calls the lost art of using your brain, the fact that people seem to be relying more on the contents of other peoples' brains instead of...
View ArticleWorkingSoftware Blog: Your templating engine sucks & everything you've...
In a bit of a ranting post on the WorkingSoftware.com.au blog Iain Dooley shares his opinion about most of the code he's seen, specifically related to templating engines: "Your templating engine sucks...
View ArticleSankuru Blog: Adding support for if/while/do while, to a simple compiler &...
Improving on his last post about creating a bytecode compiler in PHP, the Sankuru blog has a new post in the series looking at extending the basic compiler to add support for if/while and do while...
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: Layer Supertype Pattern: Encapsulating Common Implementation...
On PHPMaster.com there's a new post looking at a design pattern that's commonly in use by developers but they might not know its name - the Layer Supertype pattern and its use in multi-tiered systems....
View ArticleNetTuts.com: Evolving Toward a Persistence Layer
On NetTuts.com there's a new article posted that introduces you to the concept of a persistence layer in a PHP application: One of the most confusing design pattern is persistence. The need for an...
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: Overriding Strategy Logic - The Template Method Pattern
On PHPMaster.com there's a new tutorial posted talking about the Template Method Pattern to help make some sense (and make easier to use) your implementation of the Strategy pattern. This bring us...
View ArticleAnthony Ferrara: Programming With Anthony - Logic
Anthony Ferrara has posted about his latest video tutorial in his "Programming with Anthony" series, looking this time at the topic of "Logic": This week's Programming With Anthony video is up! In it,...
View ArticleThe PHP.cc: Urban Legends and Error Handling
In this new post to the PHP.cc blog, Stefan Priebsch looks at the relationship between urban legends and error handing in PHP. Ending up in such a situation [as the tourists in the urban legend] is...
View ArticleStephan Hochdörfer: Controller classes vs. Action classes
In this new post to his site Stephan Hochdörfer covers some of his own thoughts about the recently proposed application structure from Paul Jones, the "Action-Domain-Response" pattern. In this post...
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