Software Architecture

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

After creating an API with Laravel 5 about a month ago, I was really liking the new directory structure and some of the features that were available. Today, I tried to replicate this

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

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.

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

So, I do have to start off and say that I have not implemented a Russian Doll Caching solution. This article is highly theoretical and just meant to start a conversation about a

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

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

There has been a recent resurgence of trolling the use of "Facades" in Laravel and in other PHP projects as well. The recent storm comes on the heels of a massive trolling of

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

In the world of PHP, it seems like there has been a flurry of different inheritance and contract patterns being used. Unfortunately, a lot of developers seem to be running around like headless

When working with larger Laravel projects, one question always seems to come up: "How do I organize all of this code?" Many people have begun to suggest new ways to go about this.

There comes a time in all of our lives where we want to deal with a heap of notifications to present to a user on a dashboard. This seems like it could be

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

I feel that Taylor and I may have led some of you astray in the Laravel community. After a few posts about dependency injection and the Repository pattern, it seems as if it

Let's face it, web-design has had some huge anti-patterns to grow out of. Luckily, I started a bit later in the game where things like the new HTML5 and CSS3

Two weeks ago, I discussed Two Design Patterns That Will Make Your Applications Better. Since then, there has been high demand for a demonstration of the Repository Pattern in action. Today, we'll

The last two weeks, I have tried to look at Routing a bit more indepth and have tried to suggest conventions that can help your code perform better and be easier to modify

Getting into design patterns can be a bit of a tricky subject. An analogy would be like having a kid interested in engineering go from playing with box cars to telling them to

Coming from Java and C++ and moving into PHP and Javascript, one of the problems that I ran into was the fact that PHP and Javascript don't have traditional ways to overload

Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had C.S. Lewis Things today have been

One of the big learning curves for creating Laravel projects is working with routes and how to organize everything in your project. Today's post is going to look at just this problem.

While working with more advanced Laravel applications, you come to question how to work with more advanced routing circumstances. Laravel 4 gave a ton of features with the more advanced features in route