David Green

The DRY principle: its cost explained with examples

I know what you are thinking: “Again a boring article on DRY? Don’t we have enough already?”. You might be right. However I see too many developers (junior or senior) applying DRY like they are doing some witch hunting. Totally randomly or everywhere they can. So apparently we never have enough DRY principle articles on …

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PHP 7.2: the pitfalls to avoid for a better and cleaner code

What are the pitfalls to avoid with this new version of PHP and its new functionalities? As my previous article on PHP 7 scalar and return types pitfalls, instead of describing the new super cool features of this perfect PHP 7.2, I will describe what can be dangerous for the good health of your application. As Ward …

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Vim search explained

Let’s dive into vim search Can a developer live without a good search engine in his editor or IDE? What developer never used the famous find and replace in multiple files? Yep. Nobody. You can be happy though, dear Vim user: your editor totally shine by its search features! With a minimum of configuration you can be …

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