dependencies

Alessandro Nadalin has a new post to his blog looking at the Composer project and using it to manage packages and dependencies in PHP applications.

In this recent post from Charles Sprayberry he explains why using dependency injection (DI) in your application is a good idea and can help make things easier in the long run.

In a recent post to his blog Devis Lucato introduces the "Inversion of Control" design pattern and shares an implementation he's created as an illustration - a Service Locator called Select.

On the Nelm.io blog today there's a new post (part one of a series) about using Composer and Packagist to manage PHP applications as packages.

Alex Simonenko has a new post to his blog talking about what he had to do to get PHP 5.3.6 working on his OS X Lion installation since a previous method no longer worked.

So, Google acquired PostRank, the service calculating impact of blog posts and other items in social media.

Manuel Pichler has a new post today about a feature he's added into the PHP_Depend application that tracks the dependencies in your code - a bit of DBus magic.

I recently came across the interesting-looking Monk framework.

It allows you to specify a list of dependencies for technologies to use in your project (in the form of git repositories or gems), and it will take care of extracting them into your application's vendor folder.

On the Ossigeno blog there's a recent post from giorgio that suggests that you should use a factory design pattern as often as you possibly can.

While the latest version of BackupPC is 3.1.0, the latest available version in the Ubuntu repositories is 3.0.0.

Normally, I wouldn’t split hairs over a point release, but 3.1.0 has some very nice, new features of which IT administrators may want to take advantage.