modifiers

One of the more difficult parts of development is debugging. Any tool that can help make your bug finding life simpler can be valuable.

Raveren has submitted a new tool he's developed to make outputting your debugging information more useful - Kint.

Wojciech Sznapka has a new post to his blog showing an interesting OOP programming strick related to accessing private properties in one object from another if they're derived from the same class.

Wes Shell has posted a new tutorial to his blog today looking at encapsulation in PHP development - containing parts of the script to make them easier to work with as a whole.

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.