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Debug Unit Tests using the PhpStorm built-in test runner

Posted onMay 4, 2016May 4, 2016Leave a comment

Reading Time: < 1 minute 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 …

CategoriesPHP, Software Development, Unit TestsTagsDebugging, phpStorm, Testrunner, Unit Tests, XDebug

Modern PHP

Posted onMarch 30, 2016Leave a comment

Reading Time: < 1 minute 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 …

CategoriesBooksTagsBest practices, PHP

Debug your Codeception tests with Xdebug and PhpStorm

Posted onMarch 7, 2016March 7, 20164 Comments

Reading Time: 2 minutes 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 Read More …

CategoriesPHPTagsAcceptance tests, Codeception, PHP, Unit Tests, XDebug

A normal day, a normal bug

Posted onJanuary 14, 2016January 15, 2016Leave a comment

Reading Time: 3 minutes 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 Read More …

CategoriesSoftware DevelopmentTagsBug report, Ticket

Filesystem abstraction in PHP, and why it sometimes is useful!

Posted onNovember 23, 2015January 15, 20162 Comments

Reading Time: 3 minutes 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: Read More …

CategoriesPHP, Unit TestsTagsFilesystem abstraction, Flysystem, FTP, PHP, PHPUnit, Unit Tests

npm & Windows

Posted onNovember 12, 2015November 12, 2015Leave a comment

Reading Time: < 1 minute 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 [code] npm ERR! Read More …

CategoriesUsefulTagsnpm, problems, Windows

Getting dead pages from Google Cache

Posted onOctober 18, 2015Leave a comment

Reading Time: < 1 minute 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 Read More …

CategoriesUsefulTagsDead Links, Google Cache

Local composer package development

Posted onSeptember 29, 2015Leave a comment

Reading Time: < 1 minute 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 Read More …

CategoriesPHP, Software Development, ToolsTagscomposer, local repository

Checkout the massage!

Posted onSeptember 4, 2015Leave a comment

Reading Time: < 1 minute What a nice typo. I wonder what the colleague was thinking about in that moment: [code lang=”php”] $I->seeElement(‘#checkout-successful-massage’); [/code] And yes, the test did pass. Wonderful 🙂

Categoriesisset($theRest[$i])TagsMassage, Typo

Babette

Posted onJuly 1, 2015July 2, 2015Leave a comment

Reading Time: 2 minutes “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, Read More …

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