Andrew Cairns
@andrewcairns
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Using metaphors and analogies to explain Software Engineering in a fun way.
Fife, Scotland 🏴
Joined January 2009
We can learn a lot about Software Development by playing retro games. Explore what Composition, Inheritance and what Composition over Inheritance means with a little help from our 8-bit friends!. Hope you enjoy.
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The Pipe Operator will make a significant improvement to the readability of our #php code. Composition will never look the same. Check out the difference with an interactive example:.
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Explore how a native pipe operator could improve code readability and composition in PHP. Understand current alternatives and what future implementation might look like.
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Very pleased with how this article is turning out! Looking forward to publishing it.
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Finally! 😅. I've solved the pain with dynamic code blocks without breaking syntax highlighting.
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I'm writing an article about the new pipe operator coming to PHP. I promise, I am. Pinky swear.
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It's ironic PHP gets the pipe operator, helping with code readability, just as code gets read more and more by computers. 🫠.
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I was pretty vocal about how I wasn’t looking forward to property hooks in PHP… but it’s the complete opposite for the pipe operator. Such a huge quality of life and DX upgrade.
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Almost finished 3rd post in series about extracting a service from monolith. This one is about challenges with some legacy events and why events should be immutable!. Publishing soon. Looking for early feedback - let me know if interested.
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I've been doing quite a bit of ffmpeg stuff in the last few years and only just heard about SteamPot because @ittybithq acquired it.
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40 minutes away from completing my first 16 hour fast in over 2 years. Small but important step in a new routine.
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Interested in extracting a service from an existing monolith?. One approach is using Branch by Abstraction:.
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Learn how to implement Branch by Abstraction pattern effectively in legacy system modernization. This detailed developer guide explores practical strategies for managing service boundaries, impleme...
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Composite is a Design Pattern that can be used to treat single objects, and collections of objects, in the same way. Here's an example:
I'm doing a wee series on design patterns on YouTube. Here is the playlist:.
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I'm doing a wee series on design patterns on YouTube. Here is the playlist:.
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Have you ever wondered how strategy games like Red Alert 2 manage hundreds of units on screen without crashing?. The secret is the Flyweight Pattern:
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I'm doing a wee series on design patterns over on YouTube:.
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The Adapter Pattern is useful when you want to own the interface you want to use:
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Interested in monolith decomposition? Curious how to extract a bounded context from an existing monolith?. I'm writing about every step giving a comprehensive look at all the triumphs and challenges along the way. The first post is about the planning phase and the RFC. 👇
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