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Laravel

I Made a Huge Mistake

Last year I wrote three different articles. And I have to admit something… Repositories After reading Fowler's "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture", I found that I royally messed things up. Repositories actually

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    Ryan Tablada
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Software Architecture

Everything is a Trade-off

In development, everything that we do is a trade-off. Sometimes, we don't act like it is, and we are lying to ourselves. Languages are a trade-off I spend almost all

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    Ryan Tablada
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Action Domain Responder

Multiple Front Controller Layers?

In my persuit to continue making my code more maintainable and a bit cleaner, I have come across a new question with controllers. Is it ok to have multiple layers of front-controllers.

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    Ryan Tablada
2 min read
Laravel

OOP API Responders

The first thing that started getting me interested in a new way of emitting responses was listening to talks on hexagonal architecture. Essentially, having methods on a listener that would call a success

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    Ryan Tablada
2 min read
API

Why I Am Deprecating Eloquent-Ember

If you follow me, you know that I am heavily involved in both the Ember and Laravel communities. Thus, I have taken it upon myself to help define the development story for working

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    Ryan Tablada
4 min read
Code

We Are Complicating Things a Bit too Much (TDD & DDD)

The other day, I saw something that really encompasses one of the biggest hurdles for younger developers to get through. That hurdle is terminology. These days, there is all sorts of "___ driven

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    Ryan Tablada
5 min read
Code

Literate Programming

Today, I finally read Jeremy Ashkenas's blog post on [Literate Coffeescript]() and really have to say, I agree with the point that he is trying to make. In essence, we as programmers

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    Ryan Tablada
2 min read
Code

Pivot Tables vs Pivot Models

Lately, I have been working on multiple projects that have to deal with Polymorphic relationships, Many-To-Many, relationships, and the occasional Polymorphic Many-To-Many relationship. In working with these, a few

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    Ryan Tablada
2 min read
Code

Shut Up, You Are Already Testing Your Code

As a foray into the second week of bidaily posts, I aim to make even more people mad about TDD. See, the first time you made a program you were doing some form

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    Ryan Tablada
2 min read
Design

Why Criticize iOS7's Design

To start this article, I must say that iOS7 is a peice of art. It's looks seem a bit hit or miss depending on where you stand on design, but arguably, it

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    Ryan Tablada
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