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Social Human Architecture for Beginners

General

By Sebastian Schürmann (@sschuermann) (scrum master)
PHP Benelux
Works at mytaxi.de

People

  • introversion vs extroversion (thinking is internal or externalized)
  • nobody is one at all (just introvert for thinking or feeling)
  • talk to you team about it (try to express everybody on a scale to get better understanding)
  • take a look to "Maslows hierarchy of needs"
    • self actualization
    • esteem
    • love/belonging
    • safety
    • physiological
    • internet ;-)
  • try to create your own needs of hierarchy
  • use "non-violent communication" (Marshall Rosenberg)
    • observation (just the facts)
    • feelings (just feeling good or bad won't cut it, try to express yourself)
    • needs (we all have them, feeling bad? need is not fulfilled)
    • honest request

Groups

  • psychology of programming by Gerald Weinberg
  • egoless programming
  • stages of group development
    • forming
    • storming
    • norming
    • performing
    • storming [...]

Motivation

  • engagement can be reached by
    • autonomy
    • mastery
    • purpose
  • let people get into the flow state
  • try a fed-ex day (people can do what they want)

The Flip Side of Dependency Injection

General

Do Not

  • do not add to much dependecies (thing is doing to much)
  • do not hide dependencies by using a container (it's like throwing in "the config")

Do

  • all dependencies must be in code
  • separate object creation from usage
  • there must be the ability to choose the actual implementation on runtime

How to Get There

  • use a factory with explicite API (instead of "get('Foo')", do "getFoo()")
  • avoid injecting factories, try to use locators (locators are returning "FooInterface" and using factories for instance creation)

some thoughts about AwareInterfaces and InjectorInterfaces

With the newest version of some fancy php frameworks, i got in touch with the terms of dependency injection and service locator. While the ideas behind the to terms a quick clear so far, i wanted to know how dependency injection is implemented. Because of that, i took a look into some implementations and i'm still in the process of getting a feeling of the terms and process for dependency injection.

Nevertheless, i had to use and implement some AwareInterfaces and here are my thoughts about the.

A AwareInterface should have three methods:

  • getObject()
  • hasObject()
  • setObject(\My\Object $object)

If a class is not useable without the object, it should either throw an runtime exception or implement the InjectInterface.

A InjectInterface should only have one method:

  • injectObject()

Currently, i prefer to define InjectInterfaces if they are needed to use a object. The AwareInterface is used as an addition / nice to have object, for example if you want to inject a logger. This leads to situations that a class only implements a "FooInjectInterface" or a "FooAwareInterface".

Lets see where the journey goes. Hopefully i don't have to overturn the position from above.

Update: 2013-10-02
A teammate made the suggestion to rename the "InjectInterface" to "DependentInterface" to keep the naming in sync with the "AwareInterface".