Monday, 7 May 2018

In defence of public properties

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G'day: Recently I was re-writing one of our cron job scripts. It's the sort of thing that runs at 2am, reads some stuff from the DB...
Saturday, 5 May 2018

PHP: perpetual misuse of array type declarations

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G'day: This has been irking me enough recently to cause me to dust off this old blog. For a while PHP has had limited argument type c...
Tuesday, 28 November 2017

That array_map quandary implemented in other languages

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G'day: A coupla days ago I bleated about array_map [having] a dumb implementation . I had what I thought was an obvious application fo...
Sunday, 26 November 2017

PHP: array_map has a dumb implementation

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G'day: This cropped up a few weeks back, but I've had no motivation to write anything recently so I've sat on it for a bit. It ...
Wednesday, 22 November 2017

PHP: misuse of nullable arguments

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G'day: PHP 7.1 added nullable types to the PHP language. Here's the RFC . In short, one can specify that a return type or an argume...
Saturday, 19 August 2017

Mishmash: code review as a learning exercise, loops vs higher-order-functions and testing

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G'day: There's a few things going on in my head here, and none individually are worthy of an article, but perhaps if I dwell on a b...
Monday, 31 July 2017

Yeah, you do want 100% test coverage

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G'day: I've read a number of blog articles recently that have been eshewing 100% test coverage. The rationale being that there'...