Recently we’ve had some discussion on the PHPNL Slack community about code reviews. It’s an interesting topic that I’ve been meaning to blog about for quite a while already (and I’ve written about it for Wisdom of the elePHPant), so this was a good reason to sit down and actually put down my thoughts on…
At the start of the day the group was split up into three smaller groups. Together with Felix De Vliegher the first group sat down to work on the Gearman extension. Together with Derick Rethans the second group started working on tests for the MongoDB extension, and the rest of the group joined Rafael Dohms…
In the Netherlands, this year’s TestFest instance is in Utrecht at the Hogeschool Domstad. We have the pleasure of having Pierre Joye over to the Netherlands to mentor the TestFest (thanks to Microsoft for supporting us in this). Pierre will, together with all attendees, go through the steps of how to write tests and then…
PHP seems to be maturing lately from a scripting language to (nearly) a real programming language. Part of this process is the slow but certain adaption of development methodologies such as Agile, more and more unit testing, more and more usage of frameworks as opposed to writing everything from scratch every time, and now also…