http-helper and config, two recent PHP composer packages of mine, have just reached stable state a few days ago. http-helper is there to help you debugging http requests and responses. It is purely for development purposes Read More …
Two weeks ago I was invited to speak on the 121 Test Automation Day Conference Berlin about one of my most favourite topics – Software Quality in Web Projects. It really was a nice audience Read More …
The waiting for PhantomJS 2.5 seems to have come to an end – unfortunately, it will most likely never be released. According to a statement of Vitaly Slobodin, the current maintainer of PhantomJS, the further Read More …
Just a quick one today: when you struggle with writing Acceptance Tests for file uploads using PhantomJS (will version 2.5 ever come out? *sigh*), here are two possible solutions for you. File inputs are ugly, Read More …
One new feature of Laravel 5.4 are so called “Automatic Facades”. My colleague was expecting my reaction when he send me the link to the blog entry announcing this feature (I’m not linking it intentionally) Read More …
Say we use a DI container directly, i.e. via functions like get() or make(), how do we achieve proper IDE support? For example I create a class instance the usual way and I want to Read More …
Well, actually the Typo3 7 LTS versions were available for a couple of months through my Github repositories of cwmobileredirect and cwenvbanner already, however I never found the time to upload them to TER. Finally Read More …
End of June this year I had the honor to hold the Opening Keynote at the Clean Code Days 2016 in Munich. Actually my first talk on a Conference ever, I called it “The Lone Read More …
PhpStorm comes with a handy phpunit test runner, which lets you execute your tests with just one click. Even better: if a test fails, you can just run that test also with just one click. Read More …
Not many useful PHP books have been published recently (or I haven’t yet discovered them), so I really want to recommend “Modern PHP” by Josh Lockart, another quality product by O’Reilly. Having only 270 pages, Read More …