Articles tagged with: Patterns & Practices

Book Review: Design Patters (Gang of Four)

Summary: A review of the book 'Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software', by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson & John M. Vlissides.


Resource exhaustion and other uncommon testing scenarios

Summary: Some uncommon testing scenarios.


Five basic concepts of scalability

Summary: A list of five basic concepts for scalability.


Arrays in PHP, or to be precise, Collections in PHP

Summary: Explains the difference between traditional arrays and key-value collections in PHP, and how to properly handle them using foreach loops and the ArrayIterator class.


The problem of untyped languages: PHP empty() function

Summary: The problem of untyped languages like PHP, exemplified by the empty() function, which can lead to unexpected results.