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Mimicking TravisCI with Jenkins

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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Slapping some Varnish on WordPress

Slapping some Varnish on WordPress

  • October 15, 2012

So last week I published my review of PHPNW12 and instantly my whole server went down in flames. My current WP setup has a few issues with multi-lingual plugins which I can’t get over yet, as it requires a bit more of invested time. But this can’t go on, I needed a solution, a fast and simple one to give my blog a fighting chance.

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The IDEs of March

The IDEs of March

  • March 15, 2012

Last Year, Chris Shiflett started the “Ideas of March” movement, and Jon Tangerine quickly coined the “Ides of March” twist and some people followed him. This year, here we are again and while reading my twitter feed I saw Cal Evans’ post with Jon Tangerine’s line. Of course it was early and I read “IDEs”. Since last year I defended the Ideas of March with why you should blog, and I still believe the reasons stand, this year I’ll just make my own twist and talk about IDEs. Yes, its a shameless sorry attempt at a joke.

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Debugging PHPUnit Tests in NetBeans with XDebug

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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Managing Test Users in Facebook

Managing Test Users in Facebook

  • February 7, 2011

Recently Facebook implemented a new and more secure way of creating test users for your applications using the new Graph API. This new resource creates test users per application, allowing the developers of these apps to login as these users and test out their app’s functionality without using their own accounts and throwing test information into their live activity feed, this makes it very easy and clean to test new applications.

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