Category Archives: PHP

Phake 1.0.0 is finished

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Mike Lively

So, now that 2012 is here, I can confidently say that I have accomplished two things…the first is proving that I can indeed completely neglect my site for a year. The second is that given a free weekend I can … Continue reading →

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Pear Channel set up for Phake

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Mike Lively

For those that may not have caught my first post on the subject, Phake is a mock framework that I announced a couple of days ago in Introducing Phake Mocking Framework. It was recommended in the comments that I get … Continue reading →

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Introducing Phake Mocking Framework

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Mike Lively

I have used PHPUnit heavily now for the last 4 years. As anyone that is heavily involved in writing Unit Tests knows, test doubles (commonly referred to as mock objects) are a necessary part of your toolbox. The mocking options … Continue reading →

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Why I Hate Singletons

Posted on December 23, 2008 by Mike Lively

One of the most derided, yet most loved and used patterns is the singleton pattern. Its supporters continually praise its ability to limit instantiation of objects and its opponents continually chastise its tendency to be little more than a glorified … Continue reading →

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Book Review: PHP5 CMS Framework Development by Martin Brampton

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Mike Lively

PHP5 CMS Framework Development (published by packt publishing) is a a book that offers "Expert insight and practical guidance to creating an efficient, flexible, and robust framework for a PHP5 based content management system." Upon reading through the book I … Continue reading →

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Programming to Interfaces > Programming to Implementations

Posted on October 15, 2008 by Mike Lively

Over the last couple of months there is a concept in object-oriented programming that has been bothering me. This is the notion of ‘programming to an interface, not an implementation’. This is a principle I first learned about when reading … Continue reading →

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DC PHP

Posted on May 29, 2008 by Mike Lively

I will be flying out this weekend for my first speaking engagement at The 2008 DC PHP Conference. In looking at the speakers list there are a few familiar faces and quite a few new ones so it should be … Continue reading →

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Las Vegas PHP Group: It’s Alive

Posted on April 12, 2008 by Mike Lively

As promised, a couple of days ago the LV PHP User Group had its first meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to see what kind of interest there was and to gather some ideas for future meetings. We had … Continue reading →

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Las Vegas PHP User Group

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Mike Lively

I am pleased to announce that Las Vegas finally has a PHP User Group and our first meeting is…tomorrow. I am pretty excited as I know there is a fairly decent size PHP programmer community in LV, it just hasn’t … Continue reading →

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Late Static Binding (LSB) forward_static_call()

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Mike Lively

I finally freed up some time to finish some quick tests for some of the late static binding patches I made and one of them finally made it into head. The original post I had bringing up this issue was … Continue reading →

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