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  Is There A More Practical Approach To TDD?

  03.30.10 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  One of the things I (foolishly perhaps) promised myself when I started up a new project at work was that I was going to use Test Driven Development (or TDD for short). I advocated using a web application framework that supports good testing practices and discussed how it would be beneficial when trying to track [...]

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  “U R Doin It Wrong” – Adventures with flexible forms in Zend Framework

  03.19.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Zend_Form is a super-powerful, force-of-nature tool. By force-of-nature I mean it does all this crazy stuff, and you can see it doing it, but I am not alone in admitting that taming it sometimes is very difficult. When building tools to make form programatically you either severely limit peoples options or make it so flexible [...]

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  Expand your programming mind: filters in Lithium

  03.16.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Out of the ashes of a severe personality clash in an open source PHP web application framework project rose a new framework proclaiming that it simply sucks less than all the others. Lithium, otherwise known as li3, is the latest PHP application framework to come onto the scene. I know what you're saying. *Yawn*. As [...]

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  Rallyhat lives!

  03.12.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Some of my long-time readers have seen me mention a long-festering (I believe that is the correct term at this point) project that I dubbed Rallyhat. It first started out as a "figure out when some baseball teams are in town and buy tickets" and then morphed into "a tool for helping people plan road [...]

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  People Who Make Me Feel Stupid: Fabien Potencier

  03.05.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  This is the final in a series of blog posts about programmers who make me feel stupid due to the amazing work they've done and their ability to explain it. Check out my thoughts on Geoffrey Grosenbach, Antirez, Rich Hickey and Ezra Zygmuntowicz. I am, for lack of a better phrase, a framework whore. I [...]

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