State machines, pending objects, and named constructors

Jake shares news of a package he's working on to help define state charts in PHP, then we get into the weeds on the pending object paradigm, as well as using named constructors as an alternative to "new-ing" up a class.

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• Hot Rod
• State Chart XML
• Stately
• David K Piano
• How to avoid large function signatures by using pending objects
• Formatting exception messages