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Introduction to wsunit
by lapis on Fri, 04 May 2012 11:06:11 +0200
Testing interactions with data providers via Http (e.g. webservices) is an essential thing to ensure the service has not changed it's dataformat or even worse is not reachable at all. In both cases you want to be the first to now and probably be able to fix this before your customer finds out. So you write integration tests and run then as a different job in youe continuous integration environment. So far so good. But then you are as lazy as I am and hate doing work more than once. This is where WSUnit gets handy.
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JavaScript Days 2012
by lapis on Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:26:36 +0100
Packed with a huge number of workshops, hosted by well known speakers like Douglas Crockfort, Christian Johanson, Kore Nordmann or Thorsten Rinne the 1st Edition of the JavaScript Days in cologne already sounds like one of those 'need to be there' events. For those who act fast, the early bird period is still ongoing and open until next Saturday, 10th of February.
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Testing the invisible with Proxy-object
by lapis on Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:44:11 +0200
When I seriously started with test driven development and had way lesser experience in object oriented programming (OOP) than today, I always thought that this modifiers are more cumbersome than helpful. Over the time I learned about the principles of OOP and realized the necessity of modifiers. But still in terms of unit testing they are sometimes in the way.
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Speaking at Confoo2011
by lapis on Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:12:31 +0100
Now, this I call a nice XMas surprise. I got the confirmation to speak at confoo 2011 right after XMas. Believe me I was really surprised since I applied for it the second time now and last time I did not get accepted. So what am I going to talk about? This article will tell you.
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PHPUnit - Some lesser known features
by lapis on Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:30:49 +0100
As I am a bit obsessed with testing and unit testing in particular. As I am also a trainer I am trying to watch people on how they do solve different problems in their daily work. Doing this I recognized that almost everyone does not read any documentation nor has the drive to know more about the tools he is using, and stays in his boundaries of knowleadge until someone hits his nose against other possibilities. This is kind of the article is about - getting to know PHPUnit a bit more and be aware of it's nice and problem solving features.
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Using the console of Symfony2
by lapis on Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:35:05 +0100
The current project I am working on is not the first one depending on an external data sources. It is even not the first one doing it continiously. But for me it is definetly the first one using the Symfony2 framework. Seriously I was surprized how easy it was to implement it loosly and writing tests to ensure its reliability.
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WebTech Conference and IPC 2010 - a wrap up
by lapis on Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:44:45 +0200
Done is done… or I am done conferencing for this year. Since the last conference of this year, the combination of WebTechCon and International PHP conference is done, I am really looking forward to a few days of vacation next week. But before I do want to miss the part where I will tell you about my last conference of this year.
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Speaking at the OSIDays 2010
by lapis on Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:13:41 +0100
I am very proud to announce that I was invited to speak at the OSIDays in Chennai, India this year. It turns out to be a quite busy conference for me since I am not only providing a 4hrs workshop, but also have two session to give.
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Advanced Eclipse Workshop (IPC Spring Edition 2010)
by lapis on Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:34:43 +0100
As I already mentioned in a former article Nils Langner and I gave a workshop about advanced Eclipse Topics. As we wanted to cover all the cool stuff, we certaily had to ask Sven Kiera to introduce his PHP Tool Integration (PTI). Read this article how it turned out.
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Webtech conference opens its CFP
by lapis on Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:34:43 +0100
It's been a while the webtech conference started its call for papers. If you haven't heard of it it's all about web technology and Web 2.0 techniques.