Archive for the ‘design patterns’ Category

Gotcha - Fatal error: Call to undefined method stdClass::myMethod() in /myscript.php on line

Monday, August 8th, 2011

I had a bit of confusion trying to debug a relatively complex set of classes that …

11 minutes into the Joy of Stats and I’ve already laughed out loud 5.3 times

Friday, December 10th, 2010

I am just watching a superb documentary about statistics, called the Joy of Stats, it …

A PHP secret to understanding Data Mapper Pattern in Fowler’s Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (PoEAA)

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Here’s a snippet of a Java code example in Fowler’s esteemed  book, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture …

Creating a PHP Subclassed Singleton to Apply Fowler’s “Introduce Null Object” Refactoring

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

I found a need to implement the “Introduce Null Object“ refactoring procedure that is …

Tutorial - How to quickly create a flat, local, rendered copy of your dynamic web site’s output files - its web imprint

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

This is a write-up of a recent problem that I have solved. There are many ways to …

how to retain knowledge - and keep knowing it all

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

I stumbled across an inspiring blog post on killer sites and started writing a …

Programming - Why I like to Reinvent the Wheel

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

The programming academia has been waging a war against ‘Reinventing the Wheel’ for many years. Within recent …

Index of “Complex Views with the Zend Framework” tutorial series

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

A list of links that index the “Complex Views with the Zend Framework” series of tutorials on …