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Productive Slacking
- October 18, 2019
Back in 2016 I joined Usabilla, just around the time we were evaluating our work chat solutions. Usabilla was at the time on Hipchat and Slack was the up and coming solution, with plenty of advanced features and goodies. I will not try to sell Slack here, but it clearly was the better contender and worth our move.
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Using Git Hooks to delegate routine tasks
- November 15, 2013
My team currently uses GitHub as the center of our development process, taking full advantage of Pull Requests and all that. That means we use git and our process is to always develop using feature-branches, making PRs for each feature and then merging them in after code review.
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Mimicking TravisCI with Jenkins
- February 6, 2013
We are all awaiting the day when all of us can get TravisCI Pro and get all of that testing goodness into our private repositories right? And by that I mean, having our PRs annotated with build status, running automated tests and such.
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Debugging PHPUnit Tests in NetBeans with XDebug
- May 13, 2011
Every now and then you run into this weird situation in your code, where something that was supposed to zig is now zagging and it makes no sense whatsoever. For me this ends up happening in my unit tests since i’m not running everything in the browser everytime and since my tests usually run more scenarios then a regular browser run, that’s where the weird stuff happens.
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Using the Facebook PHP-SDK to run FQL
- January 12, 2011
As of Facebook’s migration to the new Graph API and its OAuth 2.0 protocols, I can say that their Developer documentation has become a confusing, misleading and generally unstrung pile of semi-deprecated articles, and I’m being optimistic in doing so. Problem is lots of old articles are still in there pointing to old practices and recommendations and most of these do not come with disclaimers pointing to new recommendations, and in some extremes old soon-to-be-deprecated methods do not even have equivalents in the new APIs.
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