Triggered by Marco Pivetta who apparently said during his talk at Symfony Live Berlin: "If you still don't have tests, this is unprofessional", I thought I'd tweet about that too: "It's good for someone to point this out from time to time". I don't like it when a blog post is about tweets, just as I don't like …
In part 1 of this series we discussed the size and complexity metrics calculated by phploc . We continue with a discussion about dependencies and structure. Structure This section gives us an idea of how many things there are of a certain type. These can be useful indicators too. For example, if the number of …
When I want to get a very rough idea of the quality of both code and structure of a PHP code base, I like to run phploc on it. This is a tool created by Sebastian Bergmann for (I assume) exactly this purpose. It produces the following kind of output: Directories 3 Files …
This is another excerpt from my latest book, which is currently part of Manning's Early Access Program. Take 37% off Object Design Style Guide by entering fccnoback into the discount code box at checkout at manning.com. Make sure to read part 1 first. Create read models directly from their data source …
I'm happy to share with you an excerpt of my latest book, which is currently part of Manning's Early Access Program. Take 37% off Object Design Style Guide by entering fccnoback into the discount code box at checkout at manning.com. Chapter 7: Dividing responsibilities We've looked at how objects can be used …
"Can you make a query bus with SimpleBus ?" The question has been asked many times. I've always said no. Basically, because I didn't build in the option to return anything from a command handler. So a handler could never become a query handler, since a query will of course have to return something. I've always …
With excerpts from the documentation I have worked with symfony 1, Symfony 2+, Zend Framework 1, Zend Expressive, but never with Laravel. Until now. My partner was looking for a way to learn PHP and building web applications with it. Most of my own framework knowledge is related to Symfony, so my initial plan was …
This week I attended and spoke at the Newcrafts conference in Paris. The following is a mix of notes and personal observations I wanted to share, centered around some of the talks I saw there. Romeu Romera: Bourdieu's Social theory and our work in tech I had never attended a talk by Romeu before. I really …
With a foreword by Ross Tuck Today I've released the revised edition of my latest book "Style Guide for Object Design" . Over the past few weeks I've fixed many issues, smaller and larger ones. Ross Tuck and Laura Cody have read the manuscript and provided me with excellent feedback, which has helped me a lot …
You say "convention over configuration;" I hear "ambient information stuck in someone's head." You say "configuration over hardcoding;" I hear "information in a different language that must be parsed, can be malformed, or not exist." — Paul Snively (@paul_snively) March 2, 2019 Dependency injection is very …
Cyrille Martraire: Domain modeling towards First Principles This was a talk from the first day, but it required some more processing before writing about it. Cyrille is one of my favorite speakers. He's fast, funny and brings a lot of interesting topics to the table. So many that it's sometimes hard to keep …
Eric Evans: Keynote ("Language in Context") Starting out with the basics (words have meaning within a context; when we make the boundary of this context explicit we end up with a bounded context ), Eric discussed two main topics: the Big Ball of Mud , and bounded contexts in the context (no pun intended) of …
All of a sudden it became book-writing season. It began in August when I started revising my second book, "Principles of Package Design". Apress had contacted me about adopting it, and they didn't want to change a lot about it. However, the book was from 2015 and although I had aimed for it to be "timeless", some …
In part 1 of this short series (it's going to end with this article) we covered how you can test-drive the queries in a repository class . Returning query results is only part of the job of a repository though. The other part is to store objects (entities), retrieve them using something like a save() and a …
There's something I've only been doing since a year or so, and I've come to like it a lot. My previous testing experiences were mostly at the level of unit tests or functional/system tests. What was left out of the equation was integration tests. The perfect example of which is a test that proves that your custom …
When you're looking at a function (an actual function or a method), you can usually identify several blocks of code in there. There are pre-conditions , there's the function body , and there may be post-conditions . The pre-conditions are there to verify that the function can safely proceed to do its real job . …
I recently wrote about when to add an interface to a class . After explaining good reasons for adding an interface, I claim that if none of those reasons apply in your situation, you should just use a class and declare it "final". PHP 5 introduces the final keyword, which prevents child classes from overridin…
Last week I wrote about when to add an interface to a class . The article finishes with the claim that classes from the application's domain don't usually need an interface. The reason is that domain code isn't going to be swapped out with something else. This code is the result of careful modelling work that's done …
I'm currently revising my book "Principles of Package Design" . It covers lots of design principles, like the SOLID principles and the lesser known Package (or Component) Design Principles. When discussing these principles in the book, I regularly encourage the reader to add more interfaces to their classes, to make …
During the holiday I read a book mentioned to me by Pim Elshoff: "Skin in the game", by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Discussing this concept of "skin in the game" with Pim had made me curious about the book. It's not such a fat book as one of Taleb's other books, which is possibly more famous, called "Antifragile". "Skin in …