Category: Software
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Dependency Injection – the Epiphany!
So, for most of you, Dependency Injection sounds like something you would associate with drug addiction. I assure you, this is not the case at all. At least not the Dependency Injection I’m talking about.
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Design Patterns are pretty cool!
It’s funny what you can learn when you actually pay attention, isn’t it. It turns out that for the last 10 years or so, I’ve not been the best programmer I could be. Now, I never had any grand illusions that I was the best there was. I know well and good there are many…
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How I kicked Cross Origin Resource Sharing’s Ass!
Just this past week I was working on a project that required me to write an uploader script. Nothing new or revolutionary here. There was, however, one major fly in the ointment – the upload handling script was being hosted on a different domain to script that was submitting the upload request! This was causing…
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It always the simplest thing!
I’ve been trying for MONTHS to get the very excellent XDebug PHP extension, written and maintained the PHP Jedi Master, Derick Rethans. XDebug offers some serious debugging capabilities to PHP that are second to none. It also offers some excellent profiling tools, which I should really make better use of in development. It’s easy to see…
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A virtualized development environment
For quite sometime now, I’ve been developing all the projects I’ve been working on directly on my machine. This is handy for a number of reasons, the most important of those reasons being that I don’t have to be online while I’m working and I don’t have to upload to any servers.
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Dealing with older browsers
After working in the web development industry for the last 6 years or so, dealing with older browsers that lack decent support for CSS and Javascript is something I face and deal with on a near-daily basis. Why near-daily? Well, I do a lot of Server side development which tends to be browser agnostic. Dealing…
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CSS Hacks
Recently, I read a blog posted by an old workmate in New Zealand about CSS Hacks. More specifically, it dealt with CSS rendering differences between IE7, IE6 and browsers that actually render CSS correctly (ie. Firefox, Safari, Opera and Chrome… to name a big ones).
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Web design
I’ve been working in and around the web development industry since early 2001. I was a Computer Science student at Waikato University, in Hamilton, New Zealand. One day, a friend of mine, who happened to be a freelance web developer and designer asked me if I wanted to do a small PHP job for him. He…
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Big wheels keep on turning
These last few weeks, I’ve been working away on a couple of projects that have REALLY made me appreciate just how important good architecture and planning really is, even with the smallest of projects.
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phpUnderControl – Continuous Integration
Well, over the last 3 days or so, I’ve been doing some serious unit testing with PHPUnit. Unfortunately, I didn’t start writing any serious tests until two days AFTER I started having problems testing my class hierarchy. One of the problems that arose while I was writing the first couple of unit tests, was I…
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