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Tag: Software design

Advice for junior developers

2022-09-21 Jeroen 1 Comment

Over the 15+ years of my development career, I have learned several things that significantly increase my effectiveness. In this…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Clean Code, Code Quality, OOP, Software Craftsmanship, Software design, SOLID, Testing

Value Objects with PHP 8.1

2022-01-30 Jeroen Leave a comment

PHP has introduced a number of new features that allow you to write awesome Value Objects with PHP 8.1. In…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Clean Code, Domain Driven Design, OOP, PHP, PHP8, Planet Wikimedia, Software design, Value objects

Applications as Frameworks

2019-02-28 Jeroen Leave a comment

What are the differences between building on top of a framework and building on top of an application? How does…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Architecture, Clean Code, Coupling, Frameworks, Planet Wikimedia, Software Architecture, Software design

Readable Functions: Guard Clause

2019-01-14 Jeroen 3 Comments

Guard Clauses are one of my favorite little tricks that allow simplifying code. A guard clause is an if statement…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Clean Code, Code Quality, Complexity, Design principles, Functions, Guard Clause, Planet Wikimedia, Readable Functions, Software design

Readable Functions: Do One Thing

2018-10-30 Jeroen 3 Comments

Several tricks and heuristics that I apply to write easy to understand functions keep coming up when I look at…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Clean Code, Code Quality, Complexity, Design principles, Functional Programming, Functions, Immutability, Planet Wikimedia, Readable Functions, Software design

Readable Functions: Minimize State

2018-10-24 Jeroen 3 Comments

Several tricks and heuristics that I apply to write easy to understand functions keep coming up when I look at…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Anti-patterns, Clean Code, Code Quality, Complexity, Design principles, Functional Programming, Functions, Immutability, Planet Wikimedia, Readable Functions, Software design

Base Libraries Should be Stable

2018-08-30 Jeroen Leave a comment

In this post I go over the principles that govern package (library) design and one specific issue I have come…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Clean Code, Component design, Components, Planet Wikimedia, Software design

Clean Architecture: UseCase tests

2018-08-01 Jeroen 1 Comment

When creating an application that follows The Clean Architecture you end up with a number of UseCases that hold your…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Clean Architecture, Clean Code, Coupling, Design patterns, Maintainability, Mocks, PHP, PHPUnit, Planet Wikimedia, Software design, Test Doubles, Testing, Unit testing

The Fallacy of DRY

2017-09-06 Jeroen 13 Comments

DRY, standing for Don’t Repeat Yourself, is a well-known design principle in the software development world. It is not uncommon…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Anti-patterns, Bounded Contexts, Clean Code, Code Quality, Complexity, Design patterns, Design principles, DRY, Planet Wikimedia, Software design

Generic Entity handling code

2017-05-24 Jeroen Leave a comment

In this blog post I outline my thinking on sharing code that deals with different types of Entities in your…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Anti-patterns, Architecture, Bounded Contexts, Clean Code, Design patterns, Domain Driven Design, Entities, Planet Wikimedia, Software Architecture, Software design, Strategic Design, Wikibase, WMDE

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