Do you concur…
October 24th, 2006
Leroy is a Zend PHP Certified Engineer from Crestview FL. He has been computing nearly two decades, drag-racing for 12 years and spent a year with a band as a guitarist
Concurrent development. Why pray tell would I want to discuss concurrent development? Well, its going on right now. We are developing shopping carts for 6 sites right at this very instant, and they all have peculiarities about them. Some are retailing products, some are software downloads, unique each in their own right - but have many similarities. Our organization has built dozens of shopping carts, and it would be very easy to just copy the code from previous developments, but its very easy when building a custom script to build it narrowly focused and slightly less reusable. This time we are going to build the system using strong polymorphism and inheritance. Its a great opportunity to build a solid, custom shopping cart that is capable of porting over to PHP 4 or 5 with very little trouble.
Concurrent development is valuable and with a good source control system (like Subversion) and a good development package (including Aptana, Eclipse and PHPEclipse) we’re all set.
Stay posted to view the sites in action - we are really excited for our clients’ new websites.