I’ve recently been working on a project trying to take an existing customized wordpress site and create automated integration tests around parts of it.  I’m using phpUnderControl, phpUnit, Selenium RC, Firefox, Xvfb (virtaul frame buffer) and … well, I think that’s it.
So, phpUC is configured to do a checkout from svn on a commit, then [...]

Posted in PHP, Software, Web 5 Comments »

I started my “PHP Job Hunter’s Handbook” many moons ago, and had interest from PHP Architect last summer/fall about publishing it.  After some false starts in finishing it, we wrapped it up several weeks ago, and happily it’s ‘out there’.  Whew!
The perfectionist in me was somewhat reluctant about publishing it at first, but after several [...]

Posted in Book, PHP, Web, Writing 4 Comments »

I’ve been using PHP since early 1996, back in the PHP/FI days.  I’ve used it steadily over the years, sometimes full time and sometimes part time, but that’s been pretty much a primary language for me for 12 years now.  During that time I’ve seen a lot of language changes, some for better and some [...]

Posted in Grails, Groovy, Java, PHP, Rails, Ruby, Web 18 Comments »

Manuel Lemos did an interview with Maurício Garcia on the topic of PHP certification.  It’s good to see this sort of thing talked about more, and to get an ‘international’ point of view.  My view on the topic is somewhat necessarily limited by my geography and experiences, but seem to mirror Mauricio’s fairly closely.
My PHP [...]

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Just a quick note on what I’ve been working on with GrailsKit.  I’m currently putting together a “user profile” page, which allows a user to edit their own profile.  Nothing too fancy, but I’m learning as I go how best to do this in Grails.  Coupla new points learned doing this (it’s not done yet [...]

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This is probably going to make me look dumb, but that’s never stopped me from posting before.  Was reading another article this morning about how Twitter’s been down *again*, which got me to thinking about other options, then to think more about the technical hurdles facing Twitter.  One thing I’ve read a few places is [...]

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I’ve got a small Grails project I started some time ago which I’ll announce here in case anyone is interested in helping or just using it as a base.  GrailsKit is intended to be a small starter kit for Grails projects that need web-based management of user accounts, self-registration, and basic page/controller authentication.  None of [...]

Posted in Development, Grails, Groovy, Java, Software, Web 3 Comments »

I put up a job board for web developers which I’m going to promote in a webdevradio podcast shortly (likely tomorrow) which I hope will get the word out a bit more. I’ve got a couple ideas on promoting it, and also for a couple variations on the idea as opposed to the open-ended [...]

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I’ve been asked a couple time recently for a list of ‘web’ people that would be useful to follow.  Here’s a partial list of some people off the top of my head.  If you’re not on the list, and I follow you, and you’d like to be, just add yourself and what sort of stuff [...]

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This is the last in my MySQL conference series.  Brian Moon, author of Phorum and Sr Developer at Dealnews.com, sat down and gave a recap of his two presentations.  We have here nearly a full hour of his insights in to PHP/MySQL scalability, both with an app like Phorum and a more complex environment like [...]

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