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Back to the desktop!, the 2011 edition: Intro

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8 months ago
by creed in ,

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.

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Using Debugging and Unit Testing tools with your PHP application: Conclusion

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1 year ago
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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.

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Using Debugging and Unit Testing tools with your PHP application: Selenium

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1 year ago
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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.

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Using Debugging and Unit Testing tools with your PHP application: Using PHPUnit

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1 year ago
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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:

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Using Debugging and Unit Testing tools with your PHP application: Installing PHPUnit

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1 year ago
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One of the things that developers love to hate has to be testing their code. Any process that can make this part of the development life cycle as short and painless as possible is bound to be embraced by coders. If only there was a way where you could just write a test for the various scripts that a PHP application would have and save it so that any changes could be tested with just a click of a button?

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