Sep
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Tutorial Day – QA in PHP projects

Sebastian Bergmann is giving his tutorial about Quality Assurance in PHP projects. He’s made an interesting point when he said that the focus of PHP developers went from “make it work” to “make it good”. The community has grown to a point where we can make fast, scalable & secure applications work so the next step would be make it qualitatively good. This is especially true when you look at enterprise projects.

As is to be expected with Sebastian he’s focusing quite a lot on PHPUnit and explaining how to write and use unit tests. And, as is to be expected, every time I vow to myself that I’ve got to start writing unit tests. It’s an awesome piece of technology.

I was really excited by the selenium bit, I’d heard the name mentioned a couple of times during the last few months but the live demo grabbed me.  I’ve got to try it out sometime soon.

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Sep
15
2008
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POP3 Class

I’ve finally found the time to refactor and document my POP3 class. It’s meant as a low level POP3 Interface so you can talk to a POP3 server. I needed this for a project a while ago and couldn’t find a neat PHP5 class that would do what I wanted it to do.

POP3 sourcecode

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Sep
15
2008
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ZendCon Tutorial day – Best practices

So thanks to my projectmanager (yes you Raymond) who decided to check if I was in the states, we’ve started the day at

6:15AM local time,  and after a nice breakfast I’m currently attending the “PHP developer best practices” session.

Best practices

Matthew Weier O’Phinney & Mike Nabenezny started with Source Control & Coding Standards before we went out for the break. Nothing new to learn but a lot of… wait for it… best practices that everyone should look in to.

When they resume they’ll look into unit testing which I always find interesting so the morning might not be lost.

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Sep
15
2008
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Welcome to Zendcon

Jacuzzi

After a long but rather nice flight we’ve arrived at the hotel in Santa Clara (after waiting for an hour at the Hertz

car rental desk) I guess that’s what you get when you’re bragging to yourself that the immigration and customs went so speedy. When we’d finished checking in and returning the car we had a nice relaxing dinner at the jacuzzi. Don’t you just hate work related travel?

Zendcon starts tomorrow. I’ll be doing the “PHP developer best practices” & “SQL Query Tuning: The Legend of Drunken Query Master” tutorials

Santa Clara Hyatt

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