13th January 2019 6:50 pm

I've recently come around to the idea that in PHP all classes should be final by default , and have started doing so as a matter of course…

3rd January 2019 11:55 pm

Lately I've seen a number of Laravel packages being posted on places like Reddit that offer ways to make your project more modular by…

2nd January 2019 11:00 pm

This may sound a little trite, but why is it bad to write bad code? Suppose you're a client, or a line manager for a team of developers. You…

27th December 2018 6:37 pm

A while back I was asked to make some changes to a legacy project that was still using Subversion. This was troublesome because my usual…

6th December 2018 6:34 pm

I've written before about using decorators to extend the functionality of existing classes, in the context of the repository pattern when…