Identifying and eliminating double instantiation of objects and single-synchronous-request 'caching'
'Logic Busters' is a continuation of the 'Schema Busters' series with an emphasis on business-logic practices that you can implement when engineering your web-applications. The concepts discussed in this series will differ from the previous in that they are geared towards programming practices and tips...
For my next several blogs I'm going to be discussing a powerful PHP design pattern, the factory. Since PHP applications and the data structures they interface with are getting larger and more complex there is a need to streamline and simplify how these data structures are loaded into useful objects.
For example, let's take robust...
Since my last blog entry was on the ills of creative block, I figured it appropriate to follow up with a list of design blogs/sites that I use on a regular basis to keep up with what's hot in the design world. (I know this topic has been done before on the LB blog,...