Again a somewhat belated announcement: PHP in Action is in print. My copies of it arrived at my doorstep while I was in Crete, with no clear indication that would have allowed my brother, who was hovering helpfully in the vicinity, to guess what it was. I guessed it, though.
But DHL couldn't give any [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2007’
And by the way, the book is in print…
Spaghetti? Ravioli? Farfalle?
In a blog post by Paul M. Jones, he quotes comments from slashdot claiming that TDD leads to “ravioli code”:
The problem is that it [Ravioli Code] tends to lead to functions (methods, etc.) without true coherence, and it often leaves the code to implement even something fairly simple scattered over a very large number of [...]
Running PHP tests inside Vim
I created my own test runner to run tests inside Vim, I can’t remember how long ago. Must be a year or two. I never shared it with the world. It was too primitive for anyone else to use. Then, recently, I decided to try re-implementing it in a more serious way. That meant using [...]