object oriented development

On the OpenSky blog today there's a new post about object oriented development and class structure.

More specifically about how you should use interfaces and abstract classes if you want to truly lock down the methods of your classes.

Last July, I wrote about the registry pattern and some of its advantages. These advantages include the ability to access objects across different areas of your application, and the storage of objects for later retrieval.

Much of the debate in the comments focused on whether or not the registry pattern was suitable for today’s object-oriented development, [...]

Brandon Savage has posted the answers to some questions that were raised by a previous post of his on object-oriented development and some best practices.

In this new post, he answers the questions:

PHP Builder: "With PHP5.3--which is in itself a precursor and somewhat of a teaser for PHP 6--comes something rather new to PHP: Namespaces.

As object-oriented developers well know, the point of object-oriented development is to remove ambiguity from development and data access items."

JS.Class is an attempt at making JavaScript more Ruby-like.

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