Coding Style Guide

The coding style guide I’ve put in place at work to enhance the quality, legibility and maintainability of the code produced by my team. Based heavily on the CakePHP Coding Standards, with a few additional guidelines I’ve found important.

The Programmer’s Manifesto

A list of 10 things to help improve the quality of yours and your team’s code, such as sticking to a coding style guide, testing, commenting your code, adding commit messages, staying DRY, performance and security, being MVC strict, keeping track of your time and making use of your down time.

Customising Baked Views in CakePHP

An introduction to how you go about customising CakePHP’s bake templates with some simple very simple examples. Part of a series of posts about customising bake templates and tasks.

Development Methodologies for Web Applications

A comparison of two common software development methodologies, Waterfall and Iterative, with a focus on Web Application development projects.

It describes their respective processes, examines their differences, discusses their advantages and disadvantages, and finally, identifies which situations each is most appropriate for, and their criteria for success.