A few days ago, I posted a video about how to become a better developer. There were a few interesting comments made, but one in particular from the Reddit thread ( http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/... ) peaked my interest. So I decided to do a reply. Check it out:

Today we are joined by open source contributor Larry Garfield. Larry introduces us to design patterns through his own unique style: Cooking With Crell. He introduces the concept of Design Patterns, goes through a few basic patterns and closes out with some pretty solid justification for why we should care. Check it out:

The Mediator Pattern is an extremely flexible and useful tool to help decouple your code and provide added flexibility in your applications. We’ll explore the basic concept of a Mediator, some places you’ve used it and some things that you can do to improve upon the basic concept. Check out the video:

Today’s Programming With Anthony video focuses on the concept of Iterators. We’ll look at the abstraction that they represent, how they can be used and some of the benefits of using them. When used correctly, Iterators can lead to very efficient, flexible and clean code. Check out the video:

This week, we’re going to talk about the topic of Dependency Injection in Object oriented code (specifically PHP). You don’t need a fancy container to do it, it’s actually quite simple to do manually! Check out the video:

In today’s video, we’re going to explore the concepts of closures in JavaScript and PHP. During this quick exploration, we’ll talk a little bit about variable scope and the difference between scoping in JS and PHP. Check out the video:

This week we are joined by Responsive Design thought leader Sam Richard. He introduces us to the concept of responsive web design, tells us a little bit about its history and talks about best-practice and the future of the web! Check out the video:

This week’s Programming With Anthony video is up! In it, we discuss the foundations of Boolean Logic and introduce some very interesting tools for analyzing logical constructs (including Truth Tables and De Morgan’s Laws). So without any further ado:

The fourth video in the Programming With Anthony series is live! In this video, we’ll explore the basic principles of prepared statements, and why you should use them instead of using escaped input directly in queries.

The third video to my Programming With Anthony series is up! In this video, I talk about variables in PHP and how they work under the hood. I explain the difference between variable references and object references, along with the semantics of each. Give it a watch!