php[tek] 2014 Presentation: "Obtaining Closure with Anonymous Functions in PHP"

I was invited to speak at the 2014 php[tek] conference and gave a talk entitled "Obtaining Closure with Anonymous Functions". It was a short talk of 30 minutes that described how to use functional programming techniques in PHP. It covered:

• lambda functions
• anonymous functions
• closures
• the Y-combinator
• memoization and caching
• monads
• dependency injection
• reducing code complexity
• avoiding common coding pitfalls

May 22, 2014