At PHPAmersfoort I did a lightning talk about programming best practices. Well, talk, it was a bit of a rant. In this blogpost I try to summarize what I ranted about.
I recently found myself in a discussion on whether or not exceptions could be used to control program flow in software (specifically in PHP applications). That triggered me to post a tweet: Exceptions should not be used to control expected application flow. Discuss….@skoop This triggered quite a bit of discussion, which gave me a lot…
I know I’m late with this, but I’ve only recently really been discovering the podcast as a way of keeping informed. My daily commute is quite long because of traffic jams and a good way to keep yourself occupied with something useful is to listen to podcasts. On one of my recent commutes I started…
The issue was rather nasty, because the action that led to it was actually quite logical and made sense to the developer. I might well have done the same thing, had I encountered the code that was changed. Let me explain the issue. Our application makes heavy use of external API’s, usually SOAP webservices, to…
Now, the name Neal Ford wasn’t really familiar to me. Which is not surprising, as he is not at all someone from the PHP community. Ford is mostly active in Java, .NET and Ruby (as I gather from his book) as he works for ThoughtWorks (where he works with people like Martin Fowler!). This is…