When I first started out playing with PHP a number of years ago, I did it on my home PC running windows. I remember manually setting up apache (I never tried with IIS), configuring php to work with it and getting a mysql database up and running. The whole process was time consuming and frustrating [...]
I’m regularly thinking about how to represent data in a relational database in OO PHP5 that doesn’t make me walk away feeling like i’ve just created something that smells bad.
The key thing for me is that my code should not care that the data is coming from a relational database. This poses one or [...]
After lot’s of people spent a lot of time at work refactoring bad/old code after Alistair Darling announced that VAT would be reduced to 15% instead of 17.5% (and that people needed to ‘contact their software vendors to update the VAT field… riiight), I thought i’d stub out my own design for handling Price and [...]
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