Programming

Power of Zend Framework

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I have just put up a new post on the fav.or.it blog about our new mashup editor. I thought I would just post the video again on here to show what we are doing using the Zend Framework. The […]

5Dec2007 | Nick Halstead | 3 comments | Continued

Programming Tips #5 “Readable Code”

Next up on my programming tips series we have another guest post. This one is written by JB.
Make your code readable!
It’s easier to debug, and later to maintain. Make it readable by using descriptive identifiers, properly tabbing the code, and breaking down the application into functional and reuseable pieces. If you write an app like […]

5Dec2007 | Nick Halstead | 20 comments | Continued

Programming Tips #4 “Aggregation over Inheritance”

Next up on my programming tips series we have another guest post. This one is written by James Gordan.
My favourite rule is to favour aggregation over inheritance.
I can’t count how many times I’ve seen inheritance over-used, even by experienced programmers, the net result being a bunch of subclasses that become very brittle over time, […]

4Dec2007 | Nick Halstead | 21 comments | Continued

Programming Tips #3 “Divide, Indent, Comment and Name”

Continuing my programming tips series we have the first guest post from LukasS.
Divide (not conquer), Indent, Comment and Name
We all started programming at some point in our life, some of us on our own, some under guidance of teachers, parents, but even now there are few tips, that should be known by everyone. Here is […]

3Dec2007 | Nick Halstead | 9 comments | Continued

Programming Tips #2 “Test, Test, Test”

Something that I see all the time is programmers who do not test their own work. I don’t know if this is laziness, stupidity or they really do believe what they have written is going to work. Point of fact “NOTHING EVER WORKS”, in fact as I have stated in previous posts if I write […]

8Nov2007 | Nick Halstead | 3 comments | Continued

Programming Tips Competition

I have a couple of licences for Zend Studio Professional that I have been holding back to give away for a competition. So after writing yesterdays programming ‘tips’ I thought perhaps I should get my readers to submit their own tips and then give away one copy for what I think is the best ‘tip’ […]

7Nov2007 | Nick Halstead | 3 comments | Continued
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