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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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  People Who Make Me Feel Stupid: Ezra Zygmuntowicz

  03.04.10 | Permalink | Comments Off

  This is the 4th out of 5 blog posts about programmers who I find make me feel stupid when I read what they write or hear them speak. Stupid because what they say is so obvious I cannot believe I missed it. See my thoughts on Geoffrey Grosenbach, Antirez and Rich Hickey. Next up is [...]

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  Sorting Relationship Results In Doctrine 1.2

  02.04.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I've been building an admin panel for a work project dealing with fantasy sports, and one of the failings of the old version of the overall application was that, well, sometimes it didn't retain the desired display order of players grouped by position. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. A classic case of "software working [...]

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