(Note, this example was using Zend Framework 1.10, so things might change going forwards). As a lapsed tester, I've made the commitment to build out our Zend Framework powered application using tests going forward. The first two modules for the app *should* have been done with tests, and for that I hang my head with [...]

Like many old sk00l developers, I like the security blanket a bookshelf full of technical books gives me. Whenever I have a problem, I check to see if I can figure it out using the reference materials on hand. Just looking at my shelves. Since She Who Must Be Obeyed Around Here frowns on boxes [...]

I had an awesome time at Tek-X in Chicago last week. It was worth the 8 hour drive to get to Chicago from my basement lair. Of course, it helped that the wait at the border was under 10 minutes both times. There were good talks, but even better *people*. A programming language is only [...]

Tomorrow (May 18) I throw all my junk in the trunk of my trusty steed (a 2000 Ford Taurus that loves to chew up the highway miles) and hit the road for Chicago for TEK-X, the 10th edition of this conference. I have spoken at previous editions (is that the correct word?) of this conference [...]

In a previous blog post I showed some very basic techniques for using Phing for doing deployment. As with any good deployment process, once you let people know that there is a flexible deployment tool other people start asking you to new things. "Hey Chris, can you set things up so that whenever someone runs [...]