JavaScript: getting my brain further around bind()
G'day:I was refactoring some JS code today, and one of the refactorings was extracting an inline callback into its own separate function. This was the "success" callback for a jQuery AJAX request. The...
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G'day:Here's another example of me doing something wrong. Well: there's a litany of wrongness in this exercise, and I'll show the whole thing from start to finish. But this all stems from me ballsing...
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PHP: Getting PHPCS and PHPMD working within PHPStorm
G'day:These are just some quick notes on installing PHP Code Sniffer and PHP Mess Detector to work within PHPStorm. There's nothing particularly elucidating in here, it's simply what I did to get it...
View ArticlePHP: Strategy pattern to defer implementation details
G'day:Once again my Saturday evening is set in the local pub (well: the one in Galway I go to when I'm here anyhow. I go to this place more than I do my "local" at home), with a Guinness and the laptop...
View ArticlePHP: Scaling the decorator pattern
G'day:I while back I had a look at using the Decorator Pattern to simplify some code:Using a decorator pattern to reduce inappropriate code complexityDecorator Pattern vs simple inheritanceOne again me...
View ArticlePHP: constants vs private static variables and understanding the intent of code
G'day:I was looking at some code the other day, and got into a conversation with the author about it. I can't show you the actual code (and, indeed, I'll be fictionalising the content of the...
View ArticleCFML (yes, shut-up): sorted struct literal syntax
G'day:Yeah, all right. I'm gonna be admonished by at least one of my mates (that's you, Brian) for writing another article about CFML, but... oh well. This is not gonna become a habit as I feel bad...
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JavaScript TDD: getting Mocha tests running on Bamboo
G'day:We've finally having a chance to move forward with our JavaScript TDD / testing. You might have recalled that I'd lamented in the past we'd wanted to take this sort of thing more seriously with...
View Article"There, and back again" (or: I suck at JavaScript sometimes)
G'day:Sometimes I think I'm OK at JavaScript (well: I guess I'm OK at it [he says, whilst seesawing his hand]), and then sometimes I put this to the test and conclude I'm actually a bit shit. In this...
View ArticleREST & nouns & verbs: analysing the right problem
G'day:I've recently changed teams at work, and have shifted from "safe" code bases that I've either been working on daily for over a year, or new applications that I've had a hand in from the ground...
View ArticlePHP: re-call the same method for the same result, or use an intermediary...
G'day:I could not fit this in a Twitter message, so I'll clutter up this joint instead. And, hey, it could use some content, I know.I recently came across some PHP code (this happens to me a lot these...
View ArticlePHP / Silex / Dependency injection: should I use a reference to a method?
G'day:This is another example of where I want to put a question out there, but it needs more space that Twitter will allow. I guess I'll put it on Stack Overflow too.We use Silex and Pimple's DI...
View ArticlePHP: I finally get around to seeing how PHP interacts with a DB
G'day:This is "interesting" in that I've been a PHP dev for closing in on two years now, but as yet I've not had a requirement to connect to a DB and... like... query stuff. Crazy! This is all down to...
View ArticleCode quiz
G'day:Apropos of nothing, here's a code quiz.Rules:You have an array of strings, eg: ['a', 'at', 'cat', 'scat', 'catch']. Return the first value that matches a regex pattern, eg: '.+at' would match...
View ArticleLooking at the code from that quiz last week
G'day:So last Fri I asked this:[...] here's a code quiz.Rules:You have an array of strings, eg: ['a', 'at', 'cat', 'scat', 'catch']. Return the first value that matches a regex pattern, eg: '.+at'...
View ArticleBreaking: Groovy and Clojure answers for that array-look-up code quiz
G'day:Well it's not really that breaking really... what I mean is a coupla other people posted some answers to last week's quiz after I wrote up the results ("Looking at the code from that quiz last...
View ArticleFriday code puzzle
G'day:I'm waiting for a blood test and I'm "customer number 649", and they are currently processing "customer number 541". I have dubbed this place Franz Kafka Memorial Hospital.Anyway, I have an hour...
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Friday puzzle: my PHP answer
G'day:So as per my previous article - "Friday code puzzle" - here's my answer to the current puzzle.I knocked the first version of this out over a beer whilst waiting for my flight to Galway, last...
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Blimey, a CFML-centric article
G'day:But it's nothing that interesting. I submitted my answer ("Friday puzzle: my PHP answer") for the Friday Code Puzzle yesterday, deciding to use PHP, given it's what I do for a crust these days,...
View ArticleJS: next Friday puzzle: displaying bytes in "nearest unit"
G'day:Here's my answer for the next Friday puzzle that was posted on the CFML Slack channel. I skipped last week's one as... well... I couldn't be arsed, but this was an easy one and I could sort it...
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