“Writing code that lasts” … or writing code you won’t hate tomorrow

As developers we write code everyday, only to frown at it a week after that. Why do we have such a hard time with code written by others and ourselves, this raging desire to rewrite everything we see? Writing code that survives the test of time and self judgment is a matter of clarity and simplicity. Let’s talk about growing, learning and improving our code with calisthenics, readability and good design.

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“Writing code that lasts” … or writing code you won’t hate tomorrow.

“Writing code that lasts” … or writing code you won’t hate tomorrow

Optimizing code with __autoload()

March 13, 2007

Development, PHP

With the advent of PHP5 a new tool was available to all who wished to optimize their code, its called __autoload. This function can reduce the time lost by having to include object and class files in your code. But how do you proceed in creating an __autoload function to optimize code?