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May 1, 2026 Moving from WordPress to Obsidian plus Hakyll
July 11, 2017 I spent my vacation programming
May 15, 2017 Quick JavaScript testing tip: How to structure your tests?
April 19, 2017 JavaScript Testing Tool Showdown: Sinon.js vs testdouble.js
February 28, 2017 Simplify your JavaScript code with normalizer functions
January 17, 2017 4 non-JavaScript library topics to learn to take your skills to the next level
November 24, 2016 Best practices for JavaScript function parameters
October 10, 2016 5 step method to make test-driven development and unit testing easy
October 3, 2016 What is property based testing (and how to do it in JavaScript)?
September 25, 2016 Staircase code - how short functions are not always the best solution
September 10, 2016 How many tests is too many?
June 28, 2016 The best resources to learn about JavaScript Promises
June 10, 2016 Mongoose models and unit tests: The definitive guide
June 3, 2016 How to unit test ES6 code?
May 23, 2016 Sinon.js quick tip: How to stub/mock complex objects, such as DOM objects
April 9, 2016 What is a Humble Object and how does it help make your code testable?
March 24, 2016 Using Sinon.js to make unit testing real-life apps easy
February 15, 2016 Improving our React workflow with ES6 and functional stateless components
February 8, 2016 Using WebRTC and React to build a basic chat server
February 1, 2016 React application data-flow: Where and how to store your data?
January 29, 2016 Learn to unit test your javaScript code with Mocha and Chai
January 25, 2016 Getting started with npm and Browserify in a React project
January 17, 2016 Learning React basics and building a basic application prototype
January 10, 2016 Getting started with React the easy way
January 2, 2016 Top 5 articles of 2015
December 16, 2015 Why is fixing bugs so slow? (and how to make it faster)
December 6, 2015 Sinon.js best practices for spies, stubs and mocks
November 8, 2015 AngularJS: Setting up parallel / sticky states with ui-router and ui-router-extras
November 1, 2015 How to fix JavaScript errors more easily with Chrome's debugger
September 10, 2015 How to deal with promises in JavaScript unit tests?
April 11, 2015 What are Unit Testing, Integration Testing and Functional Testing?
March 21, 2015 Unit testing Ajax requests with Mocha
March 5, 2015 ESLint vs JSLint vs JSHint vs JSCS
March 1, 2015 What's the difference between Unit Testing, TDD and BDD?
February 10, 2015 Detect problems in JavaScript automatically with ESLint
January 30, 2015 How to unit test NodeJS HTTP requests?
January 22, 2015 Strange JavaScript errors and how to fix them
January 6, 2015 ES6: What are the benefits of the new features in practice?
December 18, 2014 How to start using ES6 (and beyond) today
December 1, 2014 How to make your code self-documenting?
November 10, 2014 AngularJS best practices: Be careful when using ng-repeat's \$index
October 20, 2014 What do the top 1% of software engineers do that the other 99% do not?
September 2, 2014 Using techniques from statically typed languages in JavaScript
August 18, 2014 In order to become a better developer, you must first become a teacher
August 11, 2014 How to reduce bugs in JavaScript code by following the rule of consistent types
June 19, 2014 Hello World Open 2014 thoughts
February 16, 2014 Book review: Dependency Injection with AngularJS
February 5, 2014 Tips for taking screenshots with PhantomJS + CasperJS
December 27, 2013 AngularJS best practices: Refactoring existing code to Angular
November 5, 2013 Using AngularJS for fast prototyping
August 31, 2013 Library author: Don't provide an exploitable interface
July 28, 2013 Why use user story based testing tools like Cucumber instead of other TDD/BDD tools?
July 13, 2013 Headless Chrome/Firefox testing in NodeJS with Selenium and Xvfb
May 27, 2013 3 ways to get backend data to AngularJS
April 11, 2013 First impressions on Ruby on Rails
March 16, 2013 Knockout vs Backbone vs Angular
February 23, 2013 Review: Can a 15 USD gaming mouse be better than 60+ USD ones?
January 23, 2013 Parsing and evaluating PHP in Haskell: Part 2
January 16, 2013 Parsing and evaluating PHP in Haskell: Part 1
November 17, 2012 Post-mortem: Battlefield 3 Web Commander
September 3, 2012 How I rickrolled 15 000 people with one email
July 22, 2012 Could you use Minecraft to teach programming?
July 8, 2012 I made a thing: Planetside 2 minigame
May 26, 2012 Best practices for building embeddable widgets
May 12, 2012 Is Haskell good for web development?
April 24, 2012 5 ways how PHP is better than Node.js
April 15, 2012 How to run Apache and NodeJS based sites on the same server with Varnish
March 10, 2012 Nodejs application architecture: Battlefield 3 Web Commander
February 15, 2012 Creating custom dojox.dtl filters
January 21, 2012 Why does everything need to be integrated into a framework?
January 9, 2012 Thoughts on CoffeeScript
January 3, 2012 2012 - Mayans beware
December 26, 2011 How to troll a programming language related community
December 5, 2011 My latest project: Battlefield 3 Web Commander
October 31, 2011 The dreaded circle of blame
October 18, 2011 Get 20% off for tickets to Velocityconf Europe 2011
August 20, 2011 Adventures in Haskell: Dynamic loading and compiling of modules
August 2, 2011 Doctrine 2 and the law of demeter
July 13, 2011 PHP typehinting gotcha in exceptions/methods
July 8, 2011 Why did nobody ever tell me about ssh_config?
June 30, 2011 How to automatically run unit tests from a git push
June 11, 2011 Doctrine 2 adapter for Zend_Form model form generator
May 22, 2011 You don't need a service layer: Fat controllers are okay
May 6, 2011 How to use built-in SPL exception classes for better error handling
April 16, 2011 DIY: LCD monitor repairs for beginners
March 27, 2011 Writing HTML is fun (if you don't have to deal with IE)
February 19, 2011 Using spatial data in Doctrine 2
February 3, 2011 What was the point of XHTML?
January 24, 2011 Hello 2011
December 15, 2010 Link: Refactoring a service class for better separation of concerns
December 4, 2010 How to create Doctrine 1 -style Soft-Delete in Doctrine 2
November 27, 2010 11 common Dojo gotchas
November 12, 2010 Oulu Open Hack wrap-up
October 28, 2010 Bored of Apache/LightHTTPD/etc.? Try Mongrel2
October 22, 2010 Danmaku mechanics in first/third person shooters?
October 7, 2010 Optimizing SQL: Removing queries inside loops
October 3, 2010 Is programming a solitary job for recluses?
September 16, 2010 Using unit tests as requirements when refactoring
September 8, 2010 Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development book review
September 2, 2010 NetBeans Platform 6.9 Developer's Guide review coming soon
August 26, 2010 Now you can write PHP code... without writing any code
August 14, 2010 Exceptions and abstraction
July 28, 2010 The "do X or die()" pattern must die
July 14, 2010 Wicket from the point of view of a PHP developer
July 8, 2010 How to learn from Stack Overflow without asking questions
July 1, 2010 Unity: The best game development platform?
June 26, 2010 Refactoring explained to an absolute beginner
June 19, 2010 The best old "indie" games
June 12, 2010 Moving hosting providers
June 12, 2010 Blog moved
June 3, 2010 Solving the alt-tab problem: My solution
May 26, 2010 Drawing diagrams with JavaScript
May 7, 2010 Building a lightweight application framework around custom Dojo MVC
April 27, 2010 Using Dojo's dijit widgets for simple controller/view layers
April 15, 2010 Packageizer and ZF modelform now on GitHub
March 28, 2010 Come to the best LAN party of 2010, Solid Mojo @ Vantaa 14th May
March 23, 2010 Password policies generally suck
March 18, 2010 Google Nexus One review: Is it a superphone?
March 11, 2010 Should a failed function return a value or throw an exception?
February 24, 2010 Should PC's be easy to use for everyone?
February 12, 2010 Can you make JavaScript's String mutable?
January 28, 2010 6 programming project mistakes you should avoid
January 14, 2010 How much would you pay for good headphones?
January 7, 2010 Rendering graphics in JavaScript games
December 29, 2009 Best of 2009
December 22, 2009 Vim / Opera tip: Open highlighted text in Vim
December 16, 2009 Rewriting TankWar: Assessing the damage
December 10, 2009 Git interactive rebase tips
December 2, 2009 TankWar has online mode again: This time on Opera Unite
November 27, 2009 Dynamic precompiling of JavaScript functions for fun and profit
November 19, 2009 Git tips for SVN users
November 11, 2009 A simple way to make your code better: Stop adding more parameters
November 5, 2009 More blogs that I read
October 24, 2009 The car steering wheel usability exercise
October 21, 2009 Did you think your site validated input properly? Think again!
October 15, 2009 Is commenting your code useless?
October 12, 2009 Going to review Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development
October 8, 2009 Common programming errors and how to avoid them
September 29, 2009 Error tracking challenge is over
September 24, 2009 Google Wave impressions
September 12, 2009 What is a null object, and when are they useful?
September 7, 2009 How to get free publicity by screwing up your friendly URL algorithm
September 1, 2009 Improving code with peer reviews
August 28, 2009 What makes an abstraction good, and why should I care?
August 24, 2009 Reader challenge: Keep track of code errors
August 21, 2009 Using canvas to do bitmap sprite animation in JavaScript
August 17, 2009 Unit-testing essentials
August 14, 2009 How to make your code testable
August 9, 2009 The three types of programmers
August 4, 2009 Unit testing JavaScript
August 1, 2009 Weekend coding: Add a character counter as the background of a textarea with JavaScript
July 23, 2009 Why your mobile site probably sucks
July 20, 2009 How to install Palm Pre/webOS SDK on Windows 7 x64?
July 18, 2009 Opera Mobile vs. iPhone Safari Mobile
July 14, 2009 Opera Command, JavaScript based Missile Command game
July 4, 2009 Unit testing 5: test-driven development
June 30, 2009 TankWar Online, my JavaScript based cannons game
June 26, 2009 Unit testing 4: Mock objects and testing code which uses the database
June 17, 2009 Unit testing 3: Writing tests for existing code
June 15, 2009 How WidgetCity does a tile-based map using just CSS
June 10, 2009 Unit testing part 2: Writing and running tests
June 8, 2009 Refactoring
June 5, 2009 Unit testing: Introduction
June 2, 2009 What would you like to read about on CodeUtopia?
June 1, 2009 Should I try Git if Svn/CVS/other works for me?
May 22, 2009 How to pass variable values to JavaScript
May 20, 2009 Dealing with different password validation schemes in a single app
May 16, 2009 Doctrine vs. Propel: 2009 update
May 7, 2009 Validating Zend_Forms using model objects
May 4, 2009 Do you need to go to school to learn programming?
April 30, 2009 Optimizing JavaScript for extreme performance and low memory consumption
April 28, 2009 I wrote a Sim City clone in JavaScript
April 14, 2009 PHP Magic Features
April 12, 2009 Do you know a build tool?
April 9, 2009 Making a custom front controller in Zend Framework
April 5, 2009 Integrating FCKeditor with Zend_Form
April 1, 2009 Using a builder to construct complex classes
March 27, 2009 Site update: Added Articles section
March 26, 2009 User-interfaces: why Gears of War 2 is easier to play than others?
March 23, 2009 Improving Ajax performance in Zend Framework applications
March 20, 2009 Improved PDF generation with RE Framework RE_Pdf
March 18, 2009 Twitter thoughts
March 16, 2009 Zend_Controller actions that accept parameters?
March 13, 2009 A more user-friendly date-based search
March 11, 2009 Object-Oriented JavaScript book review
March 9, 2009 Database backed Zend_Form elements
March 6, 2009 Sending files better: Apache mod_xsendfile and PHP
March 4, 2009 Using Prototype Property in JavaScript
March 2, 2009 Handling errors in Zend Framework
February 28, 2009 Creating a simple abstract model to reduce boilerplate code
February 26, 2009 Ajax, high latency and user experience
February 24, 2009 Looking back: Best of 2007
February 20, 2009 Closures coming in PHP 5.3 and that's a Good Thing
February 18, 2009 Zend_Acl part 3: creating and storing dynamic ACLs
February 16, 2009 Practical uses for reflection
February 13, 2009 Functional programming and Haskell
February 11, 2009 Zend_Acl part 2: different roles and resources, more on access
February 9, 2009 Asus Eee PC 901
February 6, 2009 Zend_Acl part 1: Misconceptions and simple ACLs
February 4, 2009 Even more PHP mistakes!
February 2, 2009 Avoiding endless switch-case structures with classes
January 31, 2009 Migrating user account databases
January 28, 2009 Finding time and topics for blogging
January 26, 2009 GroupFight: My old PHP-based game
January 23, 2009 Using models as criteria objects for querying the database
January 21, 2009 Three PHP mistakes that will cause you debugging nightmares
January 19, 2009 What would make template engines actually useful?
January 17, 2009 Optimizing Zend Framework and Doctrine applications
January 14, 2009 Dealing with configuration files in Subversion
January 12, 2009 Vim user? You'll love NetBeans
January 7, 2009 Another idea for using models with forms
January 5, 2009 Decoupling models from the database: Data Access Object pattern in PHP
January 3, 2009 Seven Things
January 1, 2009 Sandboxing Rhino in Java
December 30, 2008 Best of 2008
December 27, 2008 Reusable "generic" actions in Zend Framework
December 25, 2008 Happy holidays
December 22, 2008 What will you do during the holidays?
December 20, 2008 JavaScript margin/block commenting system
December 17, 2008 The problems faced by a common model interface in frameworks
December 15, 2008 Packageizer is fixed
December 14, 2008 Scraping HTML with Python
December 11, 2008 Thoughts on unit testing and application design
December 9, 2008 Programming language guessing game
December 6, 2008 Food for thought: utilizing models in MVC
December 4, 2008 First Opera 10 alpha out
December 3, 2008 Common widget design patterns
December 1, 2008 NetBeans 6.5 review
November 29, 2008 Generating Sudoku puzzles using JavaScript
November 27, 2008 CSRF protection revisited
November 25, 2008 How to get your saved passwords from almost any browser
November 24, 2008 Programmer's education
November 22, 2008 I'm now on Twitter
November 21, 2008 Creating a Dojo dijit.Tree with checkboxes
November 19, 2008 Base classes in OOP programming languages
November 17, 2008 Developing for smaller screens
November 14, 2008 Improved Zend Framework package maker
November 12, 2008 Dojo Toolkit - difficult to learn, is it worth it?
November 10, 2008 Favorite blogs
November 7, 2008 BumpTop - 3D desktop goodness...?
November 4, 2008 Browser as an OS
November 2, 2008 Windows 7
October 30, 2008 Mix PHP and namespaces, get weirdness
October 28, 2008 Handling different page types in a CMS
October 25, 2008 Cross-device Opera Widgets challenge
October 23, 2008 Complex custom elements in Zend_Form
October 20, 2008 ModelForm developments
October 18, 2008 "Multi-touch" with your webcam
October 16, 2008 How to CSRF protect all your forms
October 14, 2008 Zend Framework - good for beginners or not?
October 10, 2008 PHP tip: How to make a file downloadable through your script
October 8, 2008 Static/Dynamic typing sweet spot
October 6, 2008 Zend Framework components as separate zips from the main distro? Sure!
October 4, 2008 Making a PDF generator class using Zend_Pdf
October 2, 2008 Let's Rickroll MTV Europe Music Awards 2008!
September 29, 2008 Windows Remote Desktop + Live FolderShare = Ultimate combo?
September 25, 2008 Sharing authentication over multiple sites / Single sign-on
September 20, 2008 You should know at least three languages
September 17, 2008 Generic collections in PHP
September 16, 2008 Note: comments
September 12, 2008 Never trust the user-agent header
September 9, 2008 Theory vs. Practice in coding
September 6, 2008 On HTC Touch Diamond
September 1, 2008 More on extensible authentication/access control
August 30, 2008 Understanding Doctrine's NestedSet feature
August 27, 2008 Database helper for PHPUnit
August 21, 2008 Implementing swappable authentication methods
August 15, 2008 How I got into programming
August 7, 2008 Zend_Form decorator tips
August 4, 2008 PRADO: PHP goes ASP.NET (ish)
August 1, 2008 View inheritance and "blocks" in Zend_View
July 28, 2008 Setting up command-line PHP on Windows
July 26, 2008 Opera UserJS competition
July 22, 2008 On template "tag soup"
July 19, 2008 Is Smarty really obsolete?
July 16, 2008 How to make back, forward and reload work in Ajax-based apps
July 14, 2008 Does Google test with just IE and Firefox?
July 8, 2008 Automating creation and caching of image thumbnails
July 5, 2008 Making working with DB records easier with a controller helper
July 3, 2008 Ideas for testing Zend Framework apps
June 30, 2008 JavaScript Canvas charting/timeline example
June 23, 2008 Simple Photoshop-style layers using JavaScript
June 21, 2008 Dependency Injection, or how to make simple concepts sound difficult
June 18, 2008 Put Excel on the net with ASP.NET
June 16, 2008 Is web application development less challenging than desktop application development?
June 13, 2008 Good habits I learnt from Django
June 11, 2008 Page2Rss and Yahoo Pipes
June 9, 2008 Google Spreadsheets, ASP.NET and Excel
June 6, 2008 User experience comparison: Online stores vs. Real stores
June 4, 2008 Zend_Form's from Doctrine models: Part 2
June 2, 2008 Autogenerating forms from Doctrine models
May 30, 2008 The Opera Magazine
May 28, 2008 Resource URLs and JavaScript
May 25, 2008 Improving Firefox usability
May 20, 2008 Accessible and effective CAPTCHA
May 16, 2008 Django = Awesome
May 5, 2008 Excellent Zend Framework request-response process flowchart
May 1, 2008 Is PHP a good first language?
April 29, 2008 Django and Python
April 24, 2008 Aptana Jaxer: MVC and other thoughts
April 21, 2008 Windows Vista privacy issues and suckage
April 18, 2008 Working with Regular Expressions
April 10, 2008 JavaScript and MVC
April 4, 2008 Client-side validation with Zend_Form
April 3, 2008 A look at the Yahoo UI Library
March 27, 2008 Should I start blogging?
March 24, 2008 Front-end performance and frameworks
March 20, 2008 PHP with Microsoft IIS and Microsoft SQL server
March 17, 2008 Introduction to Zend_Layout (updated for ZF 1.5!)
March 15, 2008 Enso: A useful tool or a fancy gimmick?
March 11, 2008 Setting up Windows as a PHP development server
March 7, 2008 Tracking the user's browsing history with PHP
March 2, 2008 Doctrine vs. Propel
February 24, 2008 Fluent PHP and pooQuery revisited
February 17, 2008 The human interface
February 1, 2008 The ultimate developer kit
January 26, 2008 Impressions on WordPress
January 23, 2008 A look at pooQuery internals
January 21, 2008 pooQuery - The Fluent PHP Revolution!
January 17, 2008 The art of finding information
January 12, 2008 A programming track record
January 8, 2008 Scripting in Windows
January 4, 2008 Ext JS impressions
December 30, 2007 How to get code-assist for your classes in Zend Studio and/or Aptana
December 21, 2007 Why Object-Oriented JavaScript is so confusing
December 17, 2007 Find an application's icon with WinAPI
December 15, 2007 I like pie... menus
December 12, 2007 Getting rid of Ajax development nuisances
December 8, 2007 The future of browser widgets
December 6, 2007 Are DB layers like Zend_Db making people forget SQL?
December 4, 2007 Java based IDE = Very bad IDEa
December 2, 2007 Are spammers masking themselves with innocent posts?
November 28, 2007 Is targeting a single browser okay?
November 26, 2007 What are the controller and model in MVC?
November 24, 2007 Quick introduction to using Zend_Layout
November 22, 2007 Localize your site in 3 easy steps
November 20, 2007 The mythical HTTP protocol
November 16, 2007 Routing and complex URLs in Zend Framework
November 14, 2007 Zend Framework initialization shell scripts
November 12, 2007 How to improve your JavaScript
November 10, 2007 How to automatically escape template variables in Zend_View
November 8, 2007 Summing up Smarty and Zend View
November 7, 2007 Switching to WordPress
November 5, 2007 Different PHP template engines
November 3, 2007 The best Smarty + Zend View Helpers solution!
November 2, 2007 More problems related to tagging things
October 31, 2007 Common Zend_Filter_Input problems
October 29, 2007 Mozilla Prism: A fancy name for a technology as old as the browser
October 28, 2007 Simple and efficient spam prevention techniques
October 26, 2007 Handling Ajax requests in the Zend Framework
October 22, 2007 What kind of software is needed at a LAN party?
October 17, 2007 Going to Helsinki
October 15, 2007 LAN party place reservation
October 13, 2007 How to make a modal AJAX login box with Mootools
October 10, 2007 Lively Kernel - Another waste of time?
October 8, 2007 Blocking ads on websites is bad behavior
October 5, 2007 Top 9 most useful web developer tools for Opera
October 3, 2007 How to easily redirect PHP output to a file
October 1, 2007 HTTP File Uploads
September 29, 2007 PHP on .NET?
September 27, 2007 MacGyver and programming
September 25, 2007 Preventing cross-site scripting attacks
September 23, 2007 About Flash and RIA's