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Netbeans, PHPUnit, and You

  • posted by hrrkii
  • posted on June 17th 2009
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My love affair with NetBeans continues.  The latest discovery in the long list of things to rave about is it’s newly built in (was part of the 6.7 Beta release) support for unit testing with PHPUnit.  There is a nice tutorial over on the NetBeans site that gets you up and running with it in [...]

Speed Tests of Zend_Config Approaches

  • posted by hrrkii
  • posted on May 5th 2009
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On a project I’m working on we are using bits and pieces from the Zend Framework.  We want to utilize the Zend_Config functionality to be able to standardize and make it easier to setup as well as access config information.  We also wanted a way to be able to have the config automatically reflect the [...]

PHP multibyte character dumbness

  • posted by hrrkii
  • posted on April 22nd 2009
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I got bit this week by something that I have somehow managed to avoid via complete dumb luck up till now.  It’s the fact that PHP is retarded when it comes to handling UTF-8 strings.
I couldn’t figure out why a string kept coming out with gibberish on the end.  The app was truncating the string [...]

Web Dev Communities

  • posted by hrrkii
  • posted on April 10th 2009
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Ran across this article from Marco Tabini and along with being pretty insightful it cracked me up, and I thought was worth sharing:
The Accidental Businessman: Communities.
Now I’ve not actually been part of the Ruby community, but I can tell you that when I cross paths with someone who is from it, I generally come away [...]