Some time after my last post, I completed setting up my technology feed aggregation pipe. Here’s what it looks like:

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I’ll probably write up the exact details of implementation later on How I Use Things but I wanted to express my feelings about and behind this move and something so meta as that belongs here instead of there.

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I wanted to create an interface that would be implemented by a group of classes all extending the same abstract class. Curiosity led me to try implementing the interface in the abstract class alone, forcing the interface’s requirements down to descendants by way of abstract functions fulfilling the interface’s requirements and in turn obligating descendant classes to implement them.

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When declaring members of a class in PHP, only the most basic of value assignments may be immediately made.

HTML parse error: 
<pre class="brush: php;">private $var = 'test'; // will work

private $var2 = $var; // will not work

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