May 4th, 2009
by dagfinn.
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Dean Wampler blogs: Is the Supremacy of Object-Oriented Programming Over?
“The fact is, for a lot of these applications, it’s just data. The ceremony of object wrappers doesn’t carry its weight. Just put the data in a hash map (or a list if you don’t need the bits “labeled”) and then process the collection [...]
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 [...]