Have you ever wanted to start using the CakePHP web application framework, but were wondering about it's use in the real world? As an experienced developer who is familiar with CakePHP, I decided to... More > put together a book that can help people out. The result is "Refactoring Legacy Applications Using CakePHP".
With any web application framework, the most common questions are usually "how do I do X?" where X is usually a concept that is pretty common to web development work. I felt that the best way to show people how to move an older legacy application over to using CakePHP was to do exactly that. The book is a case study showed how I refactored an administrative application used in my simulation baseball league from a spaghetti PHP mishmash over to a well-structured CakePHP application.< Less
The book explains refactoring: how to keep the internals of a program in as healthy condition as possible, so that inevitable changes are faster and easier to make, and so that the quality of the... More > software is higher.
Most software projects really try to do their best to produce good software, by using all the best practices they can to get a good design, and the best programmers they can find, and so forth, but slowly, but surely, almost every program gets in a worse and worse state.
Refactoring deals with how to stop programs ever getting in such a bad state, and even deals with taking programs which are in very poor condition and making them structurally very good again.< Less
The book explains refactoring: how to keep the internals of a program in as healthy condition as possible, so that inevitable changes are faster and easier to make, and so that the quality of the... More > software is higher.
Most software projects really try to do their best to produce good software, by using all the best practices they can to get a good design, and the best programmers they can find, and so forth, but slowly, but surely, almost every program gets in a worse and worse state.
Refactoring deals with how to stop programs ever getting in such a bad state, and even deals with taking programs which are in very poor condition and making them structurally very good again.< Less
Delphi 2007 for Win32 Development Essentials is my first Delphi 2007 for Win32 courseware manual, covering the IDE, Delphi language enhancements, Together support, Unit testing and... More > Globalisation/localisation.
See the preview for the full table of contents with more details and a some sample pages.
The manual itself contains over 140 pages, with 46,414 words and numerous screenshots plus two appendices (on webcams and Skype API) that were not included before.
Specific topics like Database, Web Development, XML, SOAP and Web Services will be covered in forthcoming courseware manuals.
The book can also be purchased in PDF format (with free updates) from http://www.eBob42.com/courseware< Less
The Eclipse Platform is a Java application designed for building Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) that can be used to create a broad array of applications using languages ranging from PHP,... More > C++ programs, to Java. The Eclipse IDE has become one of the most popular development tools in both the open-source and commercial worlds and is quickly becoming the Java IDE of choice.
Eclipse 3 Live provides users with a comprehensive guide to using Eclipse from its most basic Java IDE features to some of its most advanced topics such as Refactoring. Eclipse 3 Live provides a no-nonsense description of what the Eclipse Platform is and how one can leverage it to develop Java applications.< Less
Domain Driven Design is a vision and approach for dealing with highly complex domains that is based on making the domain itself the main focus of the project, and maintaining a software model that... More > reflects a deep understanding of the domain. This book is a short, quickly-readable summary and introduction to the fundamentals of DDD; it does not introduce any new concepts; it attempts to concisely summarize the essence of what DDD is, drawing mostly Eric Evans' original book, as well other sources since published such as Jimmy Nilsson's Applying Domain Driven Design, and various DDD discussion forums. The main topics covered in the book include: Building Domain Knowledge, The Ubiquitous Language, Model Driven Design, Refactoring Toward Deeper Insight, and Preserving Model Integrity. Also included is an interview with Eric Evans on Domain Driven Design today.< Less
Domain Driven Design is a vision and approach for dealing with highly complex domains that is based on making the domain itself the main focus of the project, and maintaining a software model that... More > reflects a deep understanding of the domain. This book is a short, quickly-readable summary and introduction to the fundamentals of DDD; it does not introduce any new concepts; it attempts to concisely summarize the essence of what DDD is, drawing mostly Eric Evans' original book, as well other sources since published such as Jimmy Nilsson's Applying Domain Driven Design, and various DDD discussion forums. The main topics covered in the book include: Building Domain Knowledge, The Ubiquitous Language, Model Driven Design, Refactoring Toward Deeper Insight, and Preserving Model Integrity. Also included is an interview with Eric Evans on Domain Driven Design today.< Less
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