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Posts from ‘April, 2009’

Show me your code comments and I’ll show why you don’t need them

Apr 30th, 2009
by dagfinn.
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Brandon Savage has written a blog post On Code Commenting And Technical Debt. He believes that code comments are a good way to minimize technical debt.

I’m surprised to find the term technical debt mentioned without being accompanied by the term refactoring. Refactoring is generally recognized (outside the PHP world) as the way to pay down [...]

10 ways to improve your code

Apr 21st, 2009
by dagfinn.
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I discovered a video presentation available from QCon SF 2008 by Neal Ford called 10 Ways to Improve Your Code. Although the examples are in Java, most of the presentation is relevant to PHP. There are some ideas here that I’ve never heard of myself, such as “anti-objects”.
Some of the [...]

Real programming with PHP 5.3 (part 3): Links

Apr 12th, 2009
by dagfinn.
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After the previous post in this series, additional independent implementations of the idea of JavaScript-style classes have turned up. So I’m going to list them and comment briefly on the differences. I hope this will be helpful to anyone who actually wants to use this in practice and needs to decide on the [...]