Talks around Computer Science and Stuff
Wufoo shares a very neato tool called PHP Quick Profiler or PQP. It basically allows a developper to have some usefull and fancy logging on a piece of code. How hard is it to use ? Well, it took me around 3 minutes to download and use it on one of my scripts. Here is […]
In: PHP|Singleton|Unit Testing
21 Mar 2009I recently watched an interesting presentation from Miško Hevery intituled “The Clean Code Talks – Don’t Look For Things!”. This presentation discusses some best practices to follow in order to keep a code clean. It talks about unit testing and the law of Demeter in OOD. For the people who never heard about it, the […]
One of the characteristic of PHP is that it doesn’t do strong typing. PHP 5.1 introduced Type Hinting. Functions were able to force parameters to be objects (by specifying the name of the class in the function prototype) or arrays. I recently read one RFC (Request For Comments) – on PHP.net wiki – from Felipe […]
I had the chance to attend the PHP Québec Conference this year. It was very interesting. I highly encourage anyone to attend such conferences if he / she is interested by PHP. Anyway during one of the presentation, I discovered an interesting little script / tool named PHPLoc. It is written by Sebastian Bergmann and […]
There are many posts about what editor to use when programming with PHP. I have been using VIM since about 7 months, I got convinced by a fellow coworker to use it. I gotta admit, it was a headache at the beginning, but the more I use it, the more I like it. If you […]
So.. I finally decided to start my own Blog. Why? Well, like many fellows, I do spent time to read about “stuffs” on the web and I felt it was time to share some of my findings. What do I read about usually ? Actually, kinda anything… Ok, I will start with a framework that […]
My name is Bashar Al-Fallouji, I work as a Enterprise Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services.
I am particularly interested in Cloud Computing, Web applications, Open Source Development, Software Engineering, Information Architecture, Unit Testing, XP/Agile development.
On this blog, you will find mostly technical articles and thoughts around PHP, OOP, OOD, Unit Testing, etc. I am also sharing a few open source tools and scripts.