Why change code that works? – On Refactoring and Technical Debt – Part 2
Reading Time: 7 minutes Bad software quality is slowing down your development speed? Read this article on how to deal with Technical debt in your daily routine. Read More …
Why change code that works? On Refactoring and Technical Debt – Part 1
Reading Time: 8 minutes Why would anyone spend time and money on rewriting software which is doing fine? This post elaborates some problems caused by “Technical Debt”. Read More …
http-helper and config packages reached stable state
Reading Time: < 1 minute 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 …
Continuous Testing and Beyond – Software Quality in Web Projects
Reading Time: < 1 minute 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 …
PhantomJS is discontinued
Reading Time: 3 minutes 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 …
File uploads not working with PhantomJS
Reading Time: < 1 minute 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 …
Automated bad practice
Reading Time: 3 minutes One new feature of Laravel 5.4 are so-called “Automatic Facades”. My colleague was expecting my reaction when he sends me the link to the blog entry announcing this feature (I’m not linking it intentionally) with Read More …
DI container and IDE integration
Reading Time: 2 minutes 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 …
cwmobileredirect and cwenvbanner finally available for Typo3 7 LTS
Reading Time: < 1 minute 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 …
Clean Code Days 2016 – Opening Keynote
Reading Time: < 1 minute 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 …
