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Exception Handling With A Level of Abstraction

09 July 2020

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One of the common topics you always see in programming articles is the one about proper use of exception handling and the try/catch mechanism (if supported by your language of choice). As you absorb the wisdom of the sacred text, looking for that nugget of information about how to do it properly, you almost always come across the idea of...

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Minimalism In Code

12 January 2020

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You may have heard of minimalism before in all sorts of disciplines and philosophies of life. Some of you might have heard of it as living without many possessions or perhaps in computing to refer to using as least amount of hardware and software resources as possible. I would like to take a small spin on perspective of applying this philosophy of...

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NULL Is Legit When Used Correctly

23 November 2019

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I was doing some research on a topic about compulsory parameters to constuctors for a project I was doing when I came across a topic about the use of NULL as a return value. Don't ask me how I stumble into these things. As you can imagine, as with everything in software engineering circles, there was a raging debate about whether or not NULL...

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WordPress In The Enterprise - Establishing Services

22 November 2018

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To continue our theme of making WordPress your next enterprise deployment (Check out our two previous articles... WordPress In The Enterprise – Building In A Class Library and WordPress In The Enterprise – The Functions File...

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WordPress In The Enterprise - The Functions File

15 November 2018

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We covered the topic of linking your company's proprietary code library...

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WordPress In The Enterprise - Building In A Class Library

15 November 2018

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When you think of WordPress you might think of a lone blogger blogging about what they ate for lunch. But that is just not true anymore. With nearly 31% of the web under its control, WordPress has gained a lot of popularity due to its easy setup and extensibility. It has become a powerful Content Management System (CMS) that even an enterprise can...

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Top 10 Tips for PHP Programmers

14 March 2018

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Tags: Basics, Best Practices, PHP, Tips and Tricks

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I thought that it was time for me to give a few helpful tips to those PHP wizards out there on how to write better scripts. I wanted to provide some tips that are a bit different than what you may have read on other blogs or seen in other articles on the subject. While some of these tips are universal (and thus you may have seen already), I am...

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A Brief Overview of Honey Pot Form Fields

04 March 2018

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Tags: Best Practices, Basics, Security, Forms, Bots

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What is a honey pot field?...

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Stubbing Out Functions, Do You Do It?

28 March 2017

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If have ever taken a beginner programming class in school you were probably introduced to the idea of stubbing out functions. If not, let me quickly tell you what stubbing is. It is the process of identifying tasks in your design and setting up functions to handle those tasks. We define just the function signature (name, parameters and body)...

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