Author Archives: brad

markdown.me

Markdown, a great shorthand syntax for creating HTML, and subsequently, for taking notes. I often take notes for different situations and use the Markdown syntax to help give them structure and organization. One thing I found I often wanted was a way to enter that Markdown somewhere, and have it generate an HTML page from [...]

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PHPUnit, Mocks and Closures

I like PHPUnit, and I like closures, but haven’t found many useful cases for them (closures) in PHP yet. Just recently I came across a situation where I needed a closure when working with PHPUnit Mock objects. For those not familiar with Mock Objects in regards to testing, here’s a link. It’s fairly common when [...]

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PHP and an abstract Singleton

PHP is quirky. I’ve heard it called other things, but I’ll leave it at that. I had a great learning experience while writing an abstract singleton class. Static binding in PHP behaves uniquely, and is often a hurdle when you try and develop an kind of an API using inheritance and static properties. If you [...]

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Review: Yahoo! User Interface Library 2.x Cookbook

I’ve had some time to really dig in to Matt Snider’s latest book, Yahoo! User Interface Library 2.x Cookbook, and have some great things to say about it. I wanted to take a different approach to reading and reviewing this book, and hopefully it proves helpful to readers. I’ve been working on whoopdwhoop.com in my [...]

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Awaiting Yahoo! User Interface Library 2.x Cookbook

It’s been out for awhile now, but I’ve got a copy of “Yahoo! User Interface Library 2.x Cookbook” by Matt Snider on it’s way. I’m excited to give it a read, Matt definitely knows the YUI Library from his work on Mint.

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