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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Now that you know what unit testing is and how to write and run tests, it's time to look at writing tests in more depth.
Today we'll take an example class and write tests for it. We'll also introduce some common testing methodologies.
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Monday, June 15th, 2009
My city building game, WidgetCity, displays the city as a table, each cell of a table representing one tile.
The tile map is done purely using just CSS, and CSS classes. The map is also scrollable.
How is this all done?
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Continuing from the unit test introduction, we will now continue and take a look at how to write tests and ways to run the tests.
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
Today I'd like to point out a bunch of good articles about refactoring - the process of improving code without changing the functionality.
Sameer Borate has written four posts about the topic in his blog, and I encourage you to check them out:
Refactoring: An introduction to PHP programmers
Refactoring 1: Conslidate ...
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
Due to popular demand, I'll be writing a bunch of posts on unit testing.
In this post I'll introduce unit testing: What it is, when it's a good idea and when it might not be. I'll also discuss a bit about what makes for a good unit test.
Next week I'll post ...
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
A relatively common task in today's Web 2.0 apps is passing values from a server-side script (or through a link) to JavaScript, affecting the client-side script execution.
Not surprisingly, there are a few ways to do that. Let's look at three and their pros and cons:
Embedding scripts into templates
Passing variables ...
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
If your application is well thought out, you would not want to save any data that isn't valid. So what do you do, when you need different validation schemes, say for passwords, depending on some special case?
For example: Your user passwords need to be at least 8 characters long and ...
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Saturday, May 16th, 2009
The best PHP ORM libraries, Doctrine and Propel. Last year I compared them to each other, and now it's time to get a fresh look at how they have advanced in about a year - Is Doctrine still the better of the two?
This time, I'll also look at the features ...
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Zend_Forms, models, validation and how they all work together is a tricky topic. There are many opinions and many ways to do it.
This time I'll show you what I think could be the answer to validating forms without having to duplicate validation code both in a model class and ...
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
While making WidgetCity, I had to use various measures to speed up the code. In this post, I'll show you the tricks I learned - some of which I haven't seen mentioned anywhere else before.
A lot of performance optimization tips for JavaScript code involve things that you more typically see ...
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