PHPUnit + Growl
Laurent built a Growl notifier for PHPUnit test results so that you can see red/green as a Growl notification on your Mac.
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Get pman: man pages for PHP functions
This link post is quite irrelevant should you never be using PHP. Therefore, I categorized it. Published in 2010, Unix manual pages for PHP functions is still a useful tip. A decade of using Python, and you don’t ask yourself … Continue reading
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Close and re-open tickets from tests: Fogbugz PHPUnit TicketListener
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 … Continue reading
Contribute: Low-hanging fruit in PEAR
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?
Thank you, MacPorts: How to add OpenSSL support to your PHP
Many interesting web APIs require SSL, for instance Google’s GData API. This adds OpenSSL support to your MacPorts-installed PHP, so that you can use the “ssl” transport layer: sudo port install php5-openssl Done. Thanks, jmr_mp in the MacPorts IRC channel, … Continue reading
CakePHP: grab only the data you need
When dealing with an abstraction that outputs dynamic SQL “behind your back”, it’s often easy to forget that some of the queries are… too greedy and grab unneeded data. Here is how to ask for less data, using CakePHP. Today, … Continue reading
Calling an XML-RPC method (PHP, Ruby)
Calling web services. Great fun when it works. Thanks to XML-RPC’s simplicity, it’s quite easy to cobble together a working client. Here is me using the Technorati “ping” service, which tells them about the Copenhagen Ruby Brigade’s weblog being updated. … Continue reading
List of local geek communities (work-in-progress)
I talked with a local PHP developer today, who’d seen my blog, and we talked some CakePHP, frameworks, servers, the general state of scripting languages, and so forth. And then we came to the subject of local communities, where developers … Continue reading
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Drupal + CakePHP = Drake
Tutorial for using Drupal and CakePHP together, written by Felix Geisendörfer. A match made in heaven?
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CakePHP news: Data Bindings v0.1 Example
You might know that I am involved in the [CakePHP framework](http://www.cakephp.org/) project, and I’m developing web sites with it now. On the IRC channel today, I was alerted to the existence of the Bindings sister project. Now they have an … Continue reading