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A venture in continous integration
Frameworks now use Composer packages, more code reuse now Updated structural framework, base classes Relatively smart and simple dependency injection Proper exception handling and notification Obviously there was some breakage. I had to fix about 5 incorrectly implemented interfaces, out of which one was affecting work (3 minutes to fix in production!). There were some conflicts with legacy systems like WAP and a few other breaks due to some structural inconsistencies created over the years.
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API development methodology
I needed a way to create and connect only to those services I actually need to run. If I only need to connect to Redis, I don’t need to connect to MySQL as well. Leverage PHP language constructs to this end. Injecting dependencies should be language driven, not programmer driven. I want you to think about this. Language driven vs. programmer driven - this is the main point. When it comes to programmer driven dependency injection, it will happen that your programmer(s) will be using their time writing methods that will get, set and report missing dependencies.
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On PSR-0 standards, namespaces and code (re-)use
When it comes to working on several projects with different people, having a set of standards to dictate code use and code re-use is a good thing to have. PSR-0 is one such accepted standard. It took a while to realize it, as I so often do, that many useful improvements to PHP mean a few steps forward, a few steps back. I’m going to try to list a few patterns which are the cause of some conflict when implementing PSR-0.
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