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 expertise. Most – if not all – software development departments…
How Saffire doesn’t do things different
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 developing languages by many and much smarter people than yours…
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 PHP 5.5, exception handling has finally evolved into what it should have been from the beginning: the “finally” part has been implemented. Let’s start with…
Custom symfony2 config loader
It happens more and more: large projects where your symfony2 site is just a small part in the big picture. Lots of additional components might even play a bigger part, especially when you are dealing with asynchronous components which are connected through message queues for instance. So the question is: we want to make sure…
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 %s. You are %d years old", name, 33); The %s and %d will be filled with respectively the variable “name”, and the integer 33. However,…
Saffire – Programming the web since 2013
So, Saffire started as a way to “learn” a bit about flex/bison. I’ve dealt with these systems before a long time ago (pre-2K), and i forgot lots about them. So it was about time for a refreshal. Unfortunally, looking on the internet for tutorials, almost all of them are about how to write a calculator…
Debugging remote CLI with phpstorm
Even in these days, with full-featured PHP IDEs around, I still see PHP developers using var_dump() and die() to debug their code. Not only is this a very bad way of “debugging”, it has other dangers as well, like side-effects on calling (non-idempotent) methods multiple times, not removing debug statements and possible even committing this…
Introducing the REST cookbook
One of the many things I do, on pretty much a weekly basis, is answering questions about REST and HTTP. Is this status code correct for X, should I use POST or PUT, is this hateoas enough, how do i handle logins in a RESTful API etc, etc… This is why I decided to setup…
Saffire: december 2012 update
A few months ago I started with a new programming language called Saffire, and it’s time for an update. Since then, we have merged over 100 pull requests, and the number of contributors is steadily increasing. This post is explains of the functionality we already implemented (or want to implement). From the user perspective, Saffire will operate…
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