Image by Balakov via Flickr In The importance of bad code (or, WordPress and why I am a psychic), Marco Tabini proposes the idea that we need bad code. Or at least that we should be tolerant of bad code in open source projects because that invites participants that might otherwise not contribute. This is [...]
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Sounds like an average PHP app to me
Image via Wikipedia 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 [...]
Real programming with PHP 5.3 (part 3): Links
Image via Wikipedia 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 [...]
Is agile development a religion?
Automobile skeptic: Driving doesn’t always work. I tried it once and crashed into a tree. Automobile zealot: How did that happen? Skeptic: I was driving down Hazel Street, reading a magazine. And then suddenly, out of the blue, I hit the tree. Zealot: But you can’t read magazines while driving a car! Skeptic: Why not? [...]