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Mastering PHP Design Patterns
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Most programmers come from a background of adopting some form of anti-pattern until eventually realizing how it doesn't scale or doesn't work well. When I was 17 and in my first job as an apprentice developer, I would be whisked down to London Monday-to-Friday, somehow compressing my suit and my totally black clothing into a surprisingly miniscule suitcase, and would learn about software development. On Fridays, we were often released for a half-day at 12:00 but I would pre-book my company train tickets in the afternoon so I would spend my time in fast-food restaurants or coffee shops working on simple projects. Every week, when I came back and tried to scale one of these solutions I would realize new scalability issues and code quality issues. Of course, I had done development before, but these were largely dealing with either brand new incredibly short programming tasks, using pre-made frameworks or dealing with legacy code where the architecture had already been...