Category Archives: Code Smells

The Sky. The Universe. The Missing Unit Tests

Posted on 14 Aug 2013 by hakre

Out there in the Universe. Now comparisons get Epic Pictures when it comes to WordPress and Unit Tests: Beta Sagittae. via The Loop. Reminded me of Development By The Numbers – Slides (May 2013; by ircmaxell) having also nice comparisons … Continue reading →

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The Daily Mistake: Not to Proxy Remote Services

Posted on 8 Jun 2012 by hakre

“Just gimme a min, I glue that HTTP based remote service in.” – Whether the standard file_get_contents + Json *bam* or complete SOAP, a developer should have the time to wrap each (remote) data-source inside it’s own interface that is … Continue reading →

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Resign Patterns – Ailments of Unsuitable Project-Disoriented Software; by Michael Duell

Posted on 27 Feb 2012 by hakre | Leave a comment

Why getter and setter methods are evil

Posted on 14 Jul 2011 by hakre

Some classic read: Why getter and setter methods are evil via GetterEradicator.

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List of PHPMD Rulesets

Posted on 12 May 2011 by hakre

As I use PHPMD from time to time only (but more and more often) I needed to lookup the default ruleset names from the filesystem. As google is faster than a search on the harddrive, here they are for future … Continue reading →

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HTTP/HTML: Missing HTTP-Body/HTML on Redirect

Posted on 16 Jun 2010 by hakre

This bothers me often: unfriendly redirects.

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PHP: Curly Brackets Substring Access

Posted on 15 Jun 2010 by hakre

I just have another lighter PHP specific Code Smell: Curly Brackets Substring Access. If you’re coding PHP since a longer time you might not only know but also have used curly brackets for index-/char-based substring access.

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Prevent Code Injection in PHP include files

Posted on 3 Mar 2010 by hakre

While discussing Coding Standards it was not long ago I argued against adding ?> at the end of php files. But miqrogroove pointed to me an interesting aspect why it actually can make sense to have it and an additional … Continue reading →

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Relative URL (#2) HTML/ XHTML Code Smell

Posted on 24 Jan 2010 by hakre

Just yesterday I had a post about the dot in the beginning of relative URLs. Today I have a small addition to that: Two dot path segments in an URL/URI. It’s some more detailed thing related to the history and … Continue reading →

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Relative URL HTML/ XHTML Code Smell

Posted on 23 Jan 2010 by hakre

Another one for the HTML/ XHTML Code Smells: If you’re using realtive URLs inside your documents (which is pretty valid and can save you some bandwidth as well as it can save some hassles for mirroring a website) you should … Continue reading →

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Script and Style HTML/ XHTML Code Smells

Posted on 19 Jan 2010 by hakre

Remember the time? Grabbing the copy of the HTML 2 RFC, reading through within the afternoon and you started to understand where this all might lead to after some time.  Seeing 3.2, 4.1 and XHTML 1.0 passing this finally ended up … Continue reading →

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