r.je - Tom Butler on programming

Welcome to my infrequently maintained and often forgotten blog. My name is Tom Butler, I'm a 26 year old web developer with an interest in OOP, coding best practices and a huge advocate of convention over configuration and separation of concerns. Since posting several PHP and MVC related articles/blog posts here three years ago I've had a very positive response. Thanks everyone for taking the time to read them and send feedback.

Three years on, my own knowledge has vastly improved and I plan on posting more articles. I have several half finished articles that I finally have the time and inclination to get around to completing.

Top articles

• Model-View-Confusion
  1. The View gets its own data from the Model
  2. MVC Models are not domain models
• MVC In PHP
  1. Hello World
  2. Deploying MVC on the web
  3. Using a Dependency Injection Container to simplify Routing in an MVC framework

Latest updates:

• 12/04/2013 - PHP: PSR-0: Pretty Shortsighted, Really
• 18/03/2013 - Using a Dependency Injection Container to simplify Routing in an MVC framework
• 14/03/2013 - Dice - A minimalist Dependency Injection Container for PHP
• 23/01/2013 - PHP: Annotations are an abomination
• 14/12/2012 - The importance of getting terminology correct
• 10/10/2012 - Handling dependencies / The "courier" anti-pattern.
• 02/10/2012 - Empty interfaces are bad practice
• 12/08/2012 - Why static methods/variables are bad practice

Coming soon:

• Dealing with large amounts of checkbox data in PHP/MySQL
• Using factories to abstract object creation
• ...and what I have had many requests for: A complete MVC example with database access and adding/updating records.

About me

Code

• Dice - A minimalist Dependency Injection Container for PHP
• CSS3 in Internet Explorer

Articles

• MVVM
  • MVVM, MVC it's all just roman numerals to me
• Model-View-Confusion
  1. The View gets its own data from the Model
  2. MVC Models are not domain models
• MVC In PHP
  1. Hello World
  2. Deploying MVC on the web
  3. Using a Dependency Injection Container to simplify Routing in an MVC framework
• Dependencies in code
  • The "courier" anti-pattern.
  • Are Static Methods/Variables bad practice?
• Other
  • PHP: PSR-0: Pretty Shortsighted, Really
  • PHP: Annotations are an abomination
  • Empty interfaces are bad practice
  • Is programming an art form?
  • Stop the sprinf() abuse
  • Finding every possible combination of an array
  • The importance of getting terminology correct