One issue many people have with Dependency Injection is the way you can no longer jump to an implementation of a dependency in an IDE and see what it actually does or make changes to it. This is indeed a side effect of moving towards much more loosely coupled code. If you are injecting a [...]
Archive for July, 2011
Why use a Dependency Injection Container?
July 7th, 2011
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In this post I am going to look at the basics of Dependency Injection again and how they tie in with the move to using a Dependency Injection Container. The basics of why injecting an object’s dependencies is a good idea are fairly easy to grasp, how this then leads to the use of a [...]
Symfony2: Checking Coding Standards
July 5th, 2011
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Coding standards are good, they are especially important on large projects with many collaborators such as Symfony2. Obviously very messy code with no consistency is a problem, it is difficult to read, making it hard to maintain. There is not only one way to write well formatted code and not everyone agrees on which is [...]
