So after about three weeks that has felt like bad luck had taken up residence and wasn’t paying rent, I got some time to work on the ole blog again. And one of the first things that I wanted to do was to restore the album listing that I had in the previous version. So half empecting the multitude of errors and freakouts that it did a few weeks ago, I click on the activate link and….
Well now that we’ve looked at our options for the guts of our machine, let’s see what we can find bargain wise for where our componets will be living, and what will be keeping the lights on. Here’s the components: Continue reading
So to start us off, we’ll need to have the main components that every desktop since the first PC has contained; a CPU, memory, and of course, a motherboard to house them all. Hard to have a computer running without it’s “engine” after all. So here’s what I’ve chosen for my build: Continue reading
For the last three years, I’ve been the semi-proud owner of a Dell M1730. Bought it back in 2008 when laptop gaming rigs were all the rage, and I figured that within the year I’d be out in Regina freezing my butt off trying to prove I was worthy of wearing a red serge. As you can probably gather, things didnt’ exactly worth out that way (although the long move happened in another direction), and the once wise purchase has turned into a bit of a boat anchor. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a decent machine that for 90% of the folks in the world would exceed their needs, but for the role of developer that I find myself in nowadays, it doesn’t measure up. It’s a bit slow, a bit hot, the battery life isnt’ too friendly and while I’m sure my optometrist would disagree with the reason why, I find that a 17 inch screen is just too small any more. And so I’ve been casually looking around for replacement options, although the options are few and far between, being a broke bum that I am.
That is, until now.
With “The Great Move” (aka moving to a cheaper apartment), now at an end, I’m finding that my disposable income has increased by leaps and bounds. And with my plan to pay down my debts over the winter well on pace, I’m going to need something that can handle the load, and wont’ have me needing glasses come April. So it’s time to take the mostly paid down credit card, and for the first time since Apple was only known for iPods and RIm was relevant in the mobile marketplace, it’s time to….
So that’s the end of this document for how to update your system to handle the new way that we can develop applications. Hopefully you found it informative. Any changes please give me a shout at PHPUnitTutorial at creedscorner dot com.
Currently we have it so that if you were doing only backend code development, you would be set. However in the web world that is PHP, being only a back end developer is a rare task. Sooner or later (usually sooner) you’re going to have to test front end code as well. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do tests on front end code as well? With that in mind, the folks at Selenium have developed a tool where you can have testing code developed for you! Let’s give it a whirl.
Now that we have PHPUnit installed, what do we do with it? Well first we’ll need to write a test script so we can test it against our pages and see if they’re doing what it is that we expect them to do. Here is a super simple example of a page that we’ll be testing against for this example: