Troels Knak-Nielsen
Troels has been crafting web applications, as a freelancer and while employed by companies of various sizes, since around the time of the IT-bubble burst. Nowadays, he's working on backend systems for a Danish ISP. In his spare time, he develops and maintains Konstrukt, a web application framework for PHP, and is the organizer of a monthly PHP-meetup in Copenhagen.
Troels Knak-Nielsen
I keep running into people who caution against using Singleton and recommend to avoid it like a plague. What is so scary about it? — Kailash Badu It’s a good question, for it is true that... Read More
Compositional programming style In the object oriented programming style, it’s preferable to split functionality out to multiple objects, that can work together to solve a single task. Taken to... Read More
I mentioned briefly, in my last post, that Wez Furlong made a patch back in March, that allows a native syntax for creating anonymous functions. This could replace the heinous create_function. Since... Read More
With the rise of Javascript, and languages like Python and Ruby, functional programming is becoming more mainstream. Even Java seems to be getting closures in the next version, so does this leave PHP... Read More
Harry mentioned the handy little phpm some three years ago. And Sean Coates was kind enough to point out how it could be replaced with a shell one-liner. Doesn’t that just make one love bash?... Read More
I’ve been using Emacs as my primary editor for a while now. A lot of people prefer IDE’s, but I’ve never been comfortable with them. I kind of like the ability to show a list of... Read More
Like many others, I prefer to use procedural PHP as a template language. While PHP’s syntax makes it a practical choice for this, there is a problem with embedding dynamic content. Most PHP... Read More
So I got persuaded into blogging for Sitepoint and this is my first post. I’ll be writing mostly about PHP, since that’s my main area of competence, but will probably touch on related... Read More
