07 Sep

How Fortissimo Does Dependency Injection

Posted by matt in fortissimo, php, programming

Dependency Injection (DI) is a software design strategy for making software more flexible by passing an object the components it needs to get its job done. This is more flexible than having each object manage its own components. If you are not familiar with DI, check out a great introduction.

Fortissimo comes with Dependency Injection built-in. Not only is it built in, but it's transparent. You don't need to learn anything about dependency injection containers or inversion of control.

In this post, we'll look at the most common dependency injection mechanism in Fortissimo.

07 Jul

Fortissimo is now run by Masterminds

Posted by matt in fortissimo, masterminds, php, programming

For a few years I have fostered the development of Fortissimo. Fortissimo is a different kind of PHP framework. Instead of the MVC pattern, it combines the Front Controller pattern with the Chain-of-Command pattern. Like Software Factories, it is based on the idea that developers should focus on strongly interchangeable and re-usable components and provide a DSL that can be used to combine components.

Today I have transferred ownership of Fortissimo from my GitHub account to Masterminds, and organization of which I am a member.

20 Jun

Pronto.js: How ConsumerSearch's Mobile API Server is Driven by Node.js

Posted by matt in drupal, fortissimo, javascript, node.js, php, programming, pronto

I was thrilled to read the story at Mobile Drupal about how ConsumerSearch is using Pronto.js to expose their huge Drupal content to their mobile application.

Pronto.js is designed to be a high performance asynchronous application framework that makes it simple to chain together components to build sophisticated application logic. It's the JS equivalent of the PHP Fortissimo framework.