With one year gone again, here’s the top 5 content from 2015! What’s the difference between unit testing, TDD and BDD? Comparison of JavaScript Linting Tools (ESLint vs JSLint vs JSHint vs JSCS) How to unit test NodeJS HTTP requests? What are Unit Testing, Integration Testing and Functional Testing? Getting started with ECMAScript 6 In 2015 the site’s traffic more …
What do the top 1% of software engineers do that the other 99% do not?
This interesting question was recently posed on Quora: What do the top engineers do, that the rest do not? And how do you get the habits to become one? Anyone can tell you something like “oh you should use source control!”, or “you should comment your code!” or other obvious things like that. But there is a limit to how …
NetBeans Platform 6.9 Developer’s Guide review coming soon
I have recently received a review copy of Jürgen Petri’s book, NetBeans Platform 6.9 Developer’s Guide, and I will be posting a review of it after I finish reading it in the coming weeks. You can check the book out on Packt’s store page. Some of you may recall I was also doing a review of Zend Framework 1.8 Web …
A look at pooQuery internals
I have received some questions regarding pooQuery (pQ from now on)… Does this really work? How does it do all this? Short answer: Yes, it does work, and what makes it tick is magic… or not, so let’s look at the tricks behind fluent languages.
Blocking ads on websites is bad behavior
Originally posted in my old blog at My Opera A lot of people really dislike any ads on a website. This shows in browsers too: Opera added a content blocker and Firefox has AdBlock and probably at least two other plugins for getting rid of ads. Some people even use separate ad blocking proxy tools such as Proxomitron and IP …
How to easily redirect PHP output to a file
Ever wanted to change where your PHP sends the output to a file instead of the browser? I have, and it involved changing every echo and other printing statemenet to fwrite. But there is a better solution to that… Tell me more You probably have heard, or even used, PHP's output buffering functions. When you normally do something like echo …
About Flash and RIA's
I've been working with Flash lately, or more precisely, Flex 2. Flex is like Flash for programmers (more on that later in this post) Not so long ago, I also tried Flash Lite, which is a lightweight version of Flash for mobile devices. What started as a tool to create annoying animations and unusable interfaces has gone a long way, …