abstraction

Henrik Bjørnskov has posted a bit of an in-depth look at Stampie, an abstraction library for sending emails from PHP applications via various service providers (like SendGrid and Mailchimp).

Groklaw: "Look at this, will you? The first decision from the Board of Patents Appeals and Interferences post-Bilski to reference that US Supreme Court decision, in In Re Proudler [PDF], a ruling rejecting HP's application for a software patent, setting forth a rule stating, as I read it, as saying software is not patentable because it's an abstraction:"

Burley Kawasaki, the director of Microsoft's Connected System Division, explains why AppFabric is the next logical step in .NET abstraction.

Brandon Savage has posted the next part of his series looking at exceptions in PHP.

This new article shows how to create a custom exception layer on top of the built-in handling.

In this latest post in his "Peer Review" series Brandon Savage looks at things that can make the sample code he's been working with easier to test.

Brandon Savage has posted his latest part of his "Peer Review" series.

He takesa step back and looks at abstraction again, this time incorporating some of the suggestions other members of the PHP community gave based on the previous version.

Brandon Savage has posted his latest article in his series looking at refactoring a piece of code (starting here) focusing in on the abstraction already in the code and how it can be made better.

DevShed has the latest article in their tutorial series looking at the Active Record design pattern posted today.

This time they focus on a bit of refactoring to make their MySQL abstraction class a bit easier to use and work better.