Peter Sawczynec wrote:
I have found in my own experience (in VB, VBScript, ASP, PHP, XML, SQL,
JavaScript, etc.), that every time you learn something and the author
hints that technically there is actually a more obscure, more difficult
to comprehend and harder to execute, more exacting technique that
handles more exceptions and degrades gracefully -- that the moment you
get invovled in even the most trivial commercial project you will
instantly discover that you absolutley must employ that more arcane,
more difficult programming technique to successfully handle even the
most minor task before you.
That is why ultimately you will absolutely need an abstract learning
tome under your belt too.
Thank you very much for the hints. I am more interested in improving the
maintainability of my code. I often do not anticipate what I might want
to do and when I add functionality I often find myself creating code
that is only slightly different from existing code. I sometimes manage
to simplify and externalize into functions that can be included when
needed, but something tells me that there might be a better way.
I am not engaging in commercial projects and don't plan to do so. I have
no formal software development background and do this for fun. Shouldn't
stop me from learning new things and doing it 'right', whatever that is.
I used to be scared by arrays and $_SESSION, now I use them all the
time. C'mon, classes can't be that tricky.
David
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