One of the things that happens over and over again is that you need to check a value, and if it’s not set, it should set a default value. Normally, these variables could be initially set by properties, but sometimes you don’t have any control on initialization. For instance, when these values come from users.…
Joshua Thijssen is a freelance consultant, developer and trainer.
His daily work consists of maintaining code bases, working on different projects and helping other to achieve higher standards in both coding and thinking.
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Scrum issues: being agile isn’t easy..
I do a lot of consulting work and because of this I see lots of different development processes at many companies. Some of them are good, but most of them are not. And this problem isn’t caused by lack of trying, but of lack of…
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The question I get asked a lot, is what makes Saffire different? The most honest answer: nothing. There is absolutely nothing that makes Saffire different from other language, because Saffire doesn’t do things different. And there is a good reason for this: after many decades of…
PHP5.5: Try/Catch/Finally
Exception handling is available in PHP since version 5. It allows you to have a more fine-grained control over code when things go wrong ie, when exceptions occur. But since…
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Saffire january 2013 update
Most development languages will have some kind of printf() functionality. It takes a string, and can have optional arguments, depending on the placeholders you have set inside your string. printf("Hello…
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