The PHP magic method
__invoke provides a powerful way to encapsulate functionality while separating state from results and errors.
Showing posts with label Programming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Programming. Show all posts
Friday, November 13, 2015
Thursday, May 21, 2015
How software dies
When software reaches its design apex, the passion to develop it wanes and it begins descending through maintenance hell. What was once state-of-the-art becomes legacy, and once legacy becomes abandonware. Except for those rare software gems that endure for generations.
Thursday, February 19, 2015
App::error, Accept:application/json, and app.debug = false
Application crashed? Client only accepts
application/json? Unless your Laravel 4 application is in debug mode, you're out of luck: the client receives text/html!Saturday, January 10, 2015
Pudgy controllers? Try the Route diet!
Nestled between user and controller, the routing layer is a perfect home for common filtering and access-control oriented code. But you have to know your framework's routing capabilities to exploit this location. In this article, I share a users' group presentation on the supple Laravel 4
Route facade.Thursday, January 8, 2015
Zero to PSR-4 in 60 seconds
By and large PSR-0 and PSR-4 are identical. Comparing and contrasting the two doesn't illuminate the crucial, but small, surface area where they differ. Sadly, most documentation takes this compare and contrast approach. In this article, I break with that documentation pattern and rather focus on the essence of PSR-4.
