I use Xdebug not only to hunt bugs, but also for every day development work. Of course I also want to use it when I write my Tests. I one of my current projects we use Codeception for both Unit- and Acceptance tests. Debugging Codeception Unit tests is as easy as for phpUnit, you just… Read More »
After fixing approx. 5 billion bugs (+/- 1 billion) in my life so far, I have a clear picture of how a bug ticket should be written to actually support the developer rather than wasting his time. Maybe this is the reason why I always get a bit mad when I read descriptions like The… Read More »
Phase 1: Ignorance and Bias Recently I came across Flysystem, which is a Filesystem abstraction layer for PHP. Now if you haven’t worked with a Filesystem abstraction layer before (like me), you may ask yourself: Why on earth should I add even more overhead for something basic as the file system? Let me explain why… Read More »
Again, Windows can cause problems you would not have expected. In npm versions prior to 3, npm stores dependencies in deeply nested folder structures, causing errors on running ‘npm install’ such as Obviously, this is a ridiculously long path and exceeds 260 characters – and Windows can’t handle that. Not sure why “they” (you know… Read More »
It happens from time to time that URLs don’t work, be it temporarily or permanently, for whatever reason. Since Google soaks up the internet like a sponge, you can try to fetch a copy from the Google Cache by putting “cache:” in front of the URL and search for it: cache:carstenwindler.de Try it out!
A new feature on composer which I really appreciate is the “Path” repository type. Imagine you are working on your super-cool-project, and one task requires new functionality where there is no composer package existing yet – yeah, this probably is a bit hard to imagine. Now you want to create your own super-awesome-package, because we… Read More »
What a nice typo. I wonder what the colleague was thinking about in that moment: And yes, the test did pass. Wonderful 🙂
“Look at her! Isn’t she beautiful? Ahhh, that smell.” Carsten’s fingers were running gently across the black case of their new colleague, a Blade Server with dozens of cores and hundreds of Gigabyte of storage, inspecting all those little details here and there. “I think I’ll call her Babette!” “Well, finally we got it.” Mike… Read More »
Updating our companies major portals from Typo3 CMS 4.7 LTS to 6.2 LTS was a good piece of work, so I was not really keen on updating any websites again. A good excuse for us was the fact that RealURL was not yet available for Typo3 CMS 7, but now it is – no more… Read More »
During work on my extension cwenvbanner to make it compatible with Typo3 CMS 7.2, I came across a good old friend, the hooks array $GLOBALS[‘TYPO3_CONF_VARS’][‘SC_OPTIONS’]. Since I sometimes struggle with the way how to declare the class and function to be called, I decided to write it down here – once and for all 🙂… Read More »