The Tension of Refactoring Legacy Code, Part 1
In a post last week, I talked about various problem spaces that exist in WordPress, but I also briefly touched
The Tension of Refactoring Legacy Code, Part 2
In the previous post on refactoring legacy code, I talked a bit about the challenges that we face not only
The Clean Architecture and WordPress
For the past couple of weeks, I (along with others in the comments) have been talking about things such as
Personal Involvement and Improvement in WordPress
A couple of weeks ago, a friend (who I finally had a chance to meet earlier this year) sent me
Singleton Design Pattern and Dependency Injection, Part 1
The Singleton Design Pattern is something that I’ve talked about before in previous articles. As Wikipedia so eloquently defines it:
One Step Towards Dependency Injection in WordPress
Dependency Injection is one of those programmer-y terms that sounds far more complicated than it is. As defined in Wikipedia:
Your Source Code (“This Could Be Better”)
I’d like to think that one of the struggles many developers feel when shipping code is a sense of “this
Singleton Design Pattern and Dependency Injection, Part 3
In the previous two posts (available here and here), I talked a bit about the Singleton Design Pattern, dependency injection,
Singleton Design Pattern and Dependency Injection, Part 2
In the previous post, I said that I was going to talk about how to use the Singleton Design Pattern
Development Tools for WordPress: The Industry’s Ego
Development tools are easy to come by these days. In fact, I think it’s harder to choose what to use than anything
Software Development Soapboxes: The Industry’s Ego
Software development soapboxes is a term that I use to describe whenever anyone tries to posit themselves as a superior
Design Patterns and WordPress (And Resources!)
For whatever reason, it doesn’t seem common that we talk much about design patterns and WordPress. And that’s odd to
Sharing Code: A Good Opportunity To Exchange Ideas
In the previous post, I happened to share a screenshot of some source code that was from a 0.1.0 (or,
Properly Writing WordPress Plugin Constructors
One of the things that many of us see (and are guilty of abusing) are WordPress plugin constructors. If you’re
Versions App For WordPress Plugins
Versions App is one of those Subversion clients that’s been around for years. In fact, when I moved to Mac, it
Writing Better Code For WordPress-Based Projects
I don’t remember exactly when I first stumbled across Joel Spolsky’s blog Joel on Software, but it was at some point