Against entropy.
When working with unit testing in PHP, you might already be using my favorite PHP unit testing tool PHPUnit. If you are, perhaps you’ve heard of the TicketListener interface. No? Then read on. Raphael Stolt closes GitHub issues from his PHPUnit tests. Which is cool. He inspired me. I wrote some code. You can now …
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Removing the 3 ring tone that plays to people calling your number: Log in to Mitt Tre Click on the “Abbonnemang” tab Find the Settings tab, and click on the ad-like box that says “FriendTones” (or use this direct link to it) This will launch another web site, at which you can find the left-hand …
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There is a Swiss army knife of video handling that’s called ffmpeg. A real workhorse. See examples of what it can do. Those are 19 real-world use-cases for this command-line tool. ffmpeg’s website says: FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It might sound smug, but it’s quite …
Yesterday, at Forskningsavdelningen (geeking every Tuesday night!) we had a blazingly fast run-through of web tools. This link-dump will probably be amended. I had time to set up a Redis, and do a test run with Rediska – a PHP interface to Redis. It worked, and it’s in PHP. I was more impressed with the …
I have yet to start using the popular package management system Homebrew (brew install postgres), so I was happy to find the simple, graphical Porticus package browser, written by a Richard Laing. Porticus is a Cocoa GUI for the MacPorts package manager A longer Linux Journal article has details. Oh, like journalism. I can’t find …
Weaving at home Originally uploaded by olleolleolle This picture is now a part of a huge collection of images of looms. I just love the Internet for that.
When not using ack, my favorite search tool, you can still exclude SVN folders. Here is an example of me looking for a file: $ find . -not \( -name .svn -prune \) -name ‘EosController*’ ./web/models/controllers/EosController.php ./web/models/controllers/EosControllerTest.php This mode of expression might be better for your scripting needs.
Here is a list of very simple bugs to fix, to make PEAR better: Deprecation bugs for PEAR code. I fixed two. The list was a wee bit shorter when I reloaded its tab. How many of these bugs remain?
Hello again. Here is a snag-resolving article about a maintenance problem. There should be a thick volume called “Web Maintenance Pearls”, which everyone should be forced to read. Here’s the situation: You want to throw out a dependency. It’s an older JavaScript library, and you have a replacement lined up. Some plugin for a popular …
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