Tag Archive
PHP
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Bulgaria PHP Conference 2015 & the PHP Community
A week ago I attended the first Bulgaria PHP Conference that was organized on September 26th and 27th 2015 in Sofia. Even though it was the first PHP conference in Bulgaria, the event was a real success. The venue was spectacular, the atmosphere was laid-back but still enthusiastic and energetic and the speaker line-up was very impressive.
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CQRS? Or did you mean (bumper) cars? – My PHPBenelux 2014 experience
I recently attended the PHPBenelux 2014 conference with a co-worker of mine. It was the 5th anniversary edition of PHPBenelux and the second time I attended the conference. It was held January 24th & 25th at hotel Ter Elst in Antwerp, Belgium.In this post I will recap my experience at the conference and highlight what I found most interesting, fun or otherwise noteworthy.
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What's new in PHP 5.5
So, why another “PHP 5.5 new features” post? I was doing research on the subject for a tutorial at work so I was digging through all the resources I could find on the subject anyway, so I decided to write a post about it. And also because even though there are many great posts already on this topic, I found that none of them were that comprehensive to list all interesting changes that come with PHP 5.5. The PHP manual also has a quite comprehensive documentation about everything that has changed with PHP 5.5 here, but it is scattered across many pages with some not so relevant information (for most PHP devs) in there also. The official ChangeLog also lists everything that has changed, but it obviously does not go into that much detail on any of the topics.
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Installing SonarQube with Jenkins integration for a PHP project
In this second part of my Continous Integration setup I will detail the steps required to install SonarQube (previously called just Sonar, renamed to SonarQube with 3.6 release just a few days ago) and integrate it with the Jenkins server from the previous post so SonarQube will run a daily analysis of our PHP project. In the previous post I covered the installation of Jenkins on a CentOS server and integrated it with GitHub, so if you do not have Jenkins set up you might want to start there.
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Installing Jenkins CI server with GitHub integration for a PHP project
Here are the details how to install Jenkins CI server on a CentOS server (version 6.4 in this case) and set it up with GitHub integration so pushing to GitHub automatically triggers a build. Our project is a PHP project so the build will have PHP related stuff and we are going to use Ant as the build system.
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Security in Web Development & modern PHP frameworks
After the recent PHP User Group Finland meeting I started thinking the presentation I gave at PHPUG Finland a few years ago and decided to post the slides here since I didn’t have a blog at the time to post them in. So, here are the slides from my PHP User Group Finland talk 24.11.2011 (in Finnish). The talk is titled Tietoturva Web -kehityksessä & Zend Frameworkissä (Security in Web Development & Zend Framework) and it was a two-part session between me first covering few of the most critical security threats in web applications and how to prevent them in Zend Framework and after that Matti Suominen demonstrated how these threats can be exploited in practice.
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Controller testing with database fixtures in Zend Framework
Testing controllers with PHPUnit is not actually unit testing per definition, but more like automated integration testing, functional testing or acceptance testing. Whatever you want to call it, it definitely is useful at times because you can’t always cover everything with unit tests. For example if you want to test control logic that is inside controller method or display logic that is in view templates, or just verify that all those different modules work together as expected. And to help achieve this, we have Zend_Test_PHPUnit_ControllerTestCase which makes it easy to execute the whole MVC stack and assert against wide variety of things like redirects, HTTP response codes and presence & contents of DOM elements in the produced HTML (and much more).
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Model testing using SQLite in-memory database with Zend Framework
In this post I am going to describe the method we set up with a few coworkers for testing models in Zend Framework projects. We are using fixtures to ensure our database is in a consistent state for the tests and we wanted to run the tests on the same machine we are using for development, but usually the database you use for development is full of data that you don’t want to lose. We also wanted to be able to run the tests easily on any new dev machine, test server, continous integration server etc.
PHPUnit
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Controller testing with database fixtures in Zend Framework
Testing controllers with PHPUnit is not actually unit testing per definition, but more like automated integration testing, functional testing or acceptance testing. Whatever you want to call it, it definitely is useful at times because you can’t always cover everything with unit tests. For example if you want to test control logic that is inside controller method or display logic that is in view templates, or just verify that all those different modules work together as expected. And to help achieve this, we have Zend_Test_PHPUnit_ControllerTestCase which makes it easy to execute the whole MVC stack and assert against wide variety of things like redirects, HTTP response codes and presence & contents of DOM elements in the produced HTML (and much more).
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Model testing using SQLite in-memory database with Zend Framework
In this post I am going to describe the method we set up with a few coworkers for testing models in Zend Framework projects. We are using fixtures to ensure our database is in a consistent state for the tests and we wanted to run the tests on the same machine we are using for development, but usually the database you use for development is full of data that you don’t want to lose. We also wanted to be able to run the tests easily on any new dev machine, test server, continous integration server etc.
SQLite
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Model testing using SQLite in-memory database with Zend Framework
In this post I am going to describe the method we set up with a few coworkers for testing models in Zend Framework projects. We are using fixtures to ensure our database is in a consistent state for the tests and we wanted to run the tests on the same machine we are using for development, but usually the database you use for development is full of data that you don’t want to lose. We also wanted to be able to run the tests easily on any new dev machine, test server, continous integration server etc.
Testing
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Running Angular tests in headless Chrome
Angular has some great tooling for running tests, namely Karma and Protractor. By default (at least when using Angular CLI) they run using Chrome. So when you execute the tests from command-line, it will pop open a browser window where the tests execute. This works well enough, but sometimes you either don’t want to see that browser window pop open or you are running the tests in an environment where there is no graphical environment (on a CI server or a Docker container for example).
There is nothing new in running Karma tests without a browser window, you have been able to do it with PhantomJS by installing the
karma-phantomjs-launcher. PhantomJS has been good enough solution for this, but you might encounter some issues every now and then and need to add some additional polyfills etc. But Chrome now has the ability to run in headless mode since version 59, so you can use it to run tests without needing to install any additional packages and with a more standard environment. -
Installing Jenkins CI server with GitHub integration for a PHP project
Here are the details how to install Jenkins CI server on a CentOS server (version 6.4 in this case) and set it up with GitHub integration so pushing to GitHub automatically triggers a build. Our project is a PHP project so the build will have PHP related stuff and we are going to use Ant as the build system.
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Controller testing with database fixtures in Zend Framework
Testing controllers with PHPUnit is not actually unit testing per definition, but more like automated integration testing, functional testing or acceptance testing. Whatever you want to call it, it definitely is useful at times because you can’t always cover everything with unit tests. For example if you want to test control logic that is inside controller method or display logic that is in view templates, or just verify that all those different modules work together as expected. And to help achieve this, we have Zend_Test_PHPUnit_ControllerTestCase which makes it easy to execute the whole MVC stack and assert against wide variety of things like redirects, HTTP response codes and presence & contents of DOM elements in the produced HTML (and much more).
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Model testing using SQLite in-memory database with Zend Framework
In this post I am going to describe the method we set up with a few coworkers for testing models in Zend Framework projects. We are using fixtures to ensure our database is in a consistent state for the tests and we wanted to run the tests on the same machine we are using for development, but usually the database you use for development is full of data that you don’t want to lose. We also wanted to be able to run the tests easily on any new dev machine, test server, continous integration server etc.
Zend Framework
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Security in Web Development & modern PHP frameworks
After the recent PHP User Group Finland meeting I started thinking the presentation I gave at PHPUG Finland a few years ago and decided to post the slides here since I didn’t have a blog at the time to post them in. So, here are the slides from my PHP User Group Finland talk 24.11.2011 (in Finnish). The talk is titled Tietoturva Web -kehityksessä & Zend Frameworkissä (Security in Web Development & Zend Framework) and it was a two-part session between me first covering few of the most critical security threats in web applications and how to prevent them in Zend Framework and after that Matti Suominen demonstrated how these threats can be exploited in practice.
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Controller testing with database fixtures in Zend Framework
Testing controllers with PHPUnit is not actually unit testing per definition, but more like automated integration testing, functional testing or acceptance testing. Whatever you want to call it, it definitely is useful at times because you can’t always cover everything with unit tests. For example if you want to test control logic that is inside controller method or display logic that is in view templates, or just verify that all those different modules work together as expected. And to help achieve this, we have Zend_Test_PHPUnit_ControllerTestCase which makes it easy to execute the whole MVC stack and assert against wide variety of things like redirects, HTTP response codes and presence & contents of DOM elements in the produced HTML (and much more).
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Model testing using SQLite in-memory database with Zend Framework
In this post I am going to describe the method we set up with a few coworkers for testing models in Zend Framework projects. We are using fixtures to ensure our database is in a consistent state for the tests and we wanted to run the tests on the same machine we are using for development, but usually the database you use for development is full of data that you don’t want to lose. We also wanted to be able to run the tests easily on any new dev machine, test server, continous integration server etc.
WordPress
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The Story of my WordPress Theme
I decided to take the advice Jeff Atwood gave to a commenter who asked for advice on blog post ideas on a recent Lifehacker interview.
After I decided to start a blog I first needed to decide what software or service I was going to use. Blogger and other similar services are easy to get started with, but since I am a developer I like to have more control over a site I’m running. I already had some WordPress experience so the decision was quite easy after all.
Drupal
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Updating a Drupal multisite using Drush
Recently I had to update a Drupal multisite installation with 62 sites. The whole process felt a little bit daunting at first, but I managed to pull it off quite easily after all thanks to good preparation and research beforehand. So I decided to document my experience for later reference (to myself and others). Please share in the comments if you find it useful.
Drush
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Updating a Drupal multisite using Drush
Recently I had to update a Drupal multisite installation with 62 sites. The whole process felt a little bit daunting at first, but I managed to pull it off quite easily after all thanks to good preparation and research beforehand. So I decided to document my experience for later reference (to myself and others). Please share in the comments if you find it useful.
Security
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Security in Web Development & modern PHP frameworks
After the recent PHP User Group Finland meeting I started thinking the presentation I gave at PHPUG Finland a few years ago and decided to post the slides here since I didn’t have a blog at the time to post them in. So, here are the slides from my PHP User Group Finland talk 24.11.2011 (in Finnish). The talk is titled Tietoturva Web -kehityksessä & Zend Frameworkissä (Security in Web Development & Zend Framework) and it was a two-part session between me first covering few of the most critical security threats in web applications and how to prevent them in Zend Framework and after that Matti Suominen demonstrated how these threats can be exploited in practice.
Symfony2
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Security in Web Development & modern PHP frameworks
After the recent PHP User Group Finland meeting I started thinking the presentation I gave at PHPUG Finland a few years ago and decided to post the slides here since I didn’t have a blog at the time to post them in. So, here are the slides from my PHP User Group Finland talk 24.11.2011 (in Finnish). The talk is titled Tietoturva Web -kehityksessä & Zend Frameworkissä (Security in Web Development & Zend Framework) and it was a two-part session between me first covering few of the most critical security threats in web applications and how to prevent them in Zend Framework and after that Matti Suominen demonstrated how these threats can be exploited in practice.
MySQL
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Validating data with triggers in MySQL
MySQL triggers can be used to create some validation conditions that are a little bit more complex than what can be achieved with basic data types and unique index for example. The reason why data validation is better kept at the database level rather than application level is that in case the same data source is used by multiple applications, or even multiple interfaces within the same application, is that you can rely on the data being consistent and valid regardless the validation logic on the application side, which might not always be consistent across different implementations.
Continuous Integration
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Building a Deploy Button
I recently got a Olimex A20-OLinuXino-LIME mini computer as a speaker gift for speaking at the Bulgaria PHP Conference. It’s quite similar to a Raspberry Pi, it has few USB ports, Ethernet port, HDMI output and some GPIO pins to hook up some electronics. Quite a lot of GPIO pins actually, a lot more than on Raspberry Pi. And it runs Debian Linux from an SD card. So it’s perfect for doing some hardware hacking and I have been building something on it last week.
I decided to build a deploy button for a project I’m working on at work.
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Installing SonarQube with Jenkins integration for a PHP project
In this second part of my Continous Integration setup I will detail the steps required to install SonarQube (previously called just Sonar, renamed to SonarQube with 3.6 release just a few days ago) and integrate it with the Jenkins server from the previous post so SonarQube will run a daily analysis of our PHP project. In the previous post I covered the installation of Jenkins on a CentOS server and integrated it with GitHub, so if you do not have Jenkins set up you might want to start there.
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Installing Jenkins CI server with GitHub integration for a PHP project
Here are the details how to install Jenkins CI server on a CentOS server (version 6.4 in this case) and set it up with GitHub integration so pushing to GitHub automatically triggers a build. Our project is a PHP project so the build will have PHP related stuff and we are going to use Ant as the build system.
Sonar
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Installing SonarQube with Jenkins integration for a PHP project
In this second part of my Continous Integration setup I will detail the steps required to install SonarQube (previously called just Sonar, renamed to SonarQube with 3.6 release just a few days ago) and integrate it with the Jenkins server from the previous post so SonarQube will run a daily analysis of our PHP project. In the previous post I covered the installation of Jenkins on a CentOS server and integrated it with GitHub, so if you do not have Jenkins set up you might want to start there.
SonarQube
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Installing SonarQube with Jenkins integration for a PHP project
In this second part of my Continous Integration setup I will detail the steps required to install SonarQube (previously called just Sonar, renamed to SonarQube with 3.6 release just a few days ago) and integrate it with the Jenkins server from the previous post so SonarQube will run a daily analysis of our PHP project. In the previous post I covered the installation of Jenkins on a CentOS server and integrated it with GitHub, so if you do not have Jenkins set up you might want to start there.
Community
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Bulgaria PHP Conference 2015 & the PHP Community
A week ago I attended the first Bulgaria PHP Conference that was organized on September 26th and 27th 2015 in Sofia. Even though it was the first PHP conference in Bulgaria, the event was a real success. The venue was spectacular, the atmosphere was laid-back but still enthusiastic and energetic and the speaker line-up was very impressive.
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CQRS? Or did you mean (bumper) cars? – My PHPBenelux 2014 experience
I recently attended the PHPBenelux 2014 conference with a co-worker of mine. It was the 5th anniversary edition of PHPBenelux and the second time I attended the conference. It was held January 24th & 25th at hotel Ter Elst in Antwerp, Belgium.In this post I will recap my experience at the conference and highlight what I found most interesting, fun or otherwise noteworthy.
Conference
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Bulgaria PHP Conference 2015 & the PHP Community
A week ago I attended the first Bulgaria PHP Conference that was organized on September 26th and 27th 2015 in Sofia. Even though it was the first PHP conference in Bulgaria, the event was a real success. The venue was spectacular, the atmosphere was laid-back but still enthusiastic and energetic and the speaker line-up was very impressive.
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CQRS? Or did you mean (bumper) cars? – My PHPBenelux 2014 experience
I recently attended the PHPBenelux 2014 conference with a co-worker of mine. It was the 5th anniversary edition of PHPBenelux and the second time I attended the conference. It was held January 24th & 25th at hotel Ter Elst in Antwerp, Belgium.In this post I will recap my experience at the conference and highlight what I found most interesting, fun or otherwise noteworthy.
PHPBenelux
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CQRS? Or did you mean (bumper) cars? – My PHPBenelux 2014 experience
I recently attended the PHPBenelux 2014 conference with a co-worker of mine. It was the 5th anniversary edition of PHPBenelux and the second time I attended the conference. It was held January 24th & 25th at hotel Ter Elst in Antwerp, Belgium.In this post I will recap my experience at the conference and highlight what I found most interesting, fun or otherwise noteworthy.
Clean Code
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What is Clean Code and why should you care?
Clean code is something that I have been interested in for a while now, and plan to write a series of blog posts about the different concepts related to clean code. In this introduction post to the series I will talk a little bit about what clean code actually is and also try to answer the question why should you care about clean code.
BGPHP
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Building a Deploy Button
I recently got a Olimex A20-OLinuXino-LIME mini computer as a speaker gift for speaking at the Bulgaria PHP Conference. It’s quite similar to a Raspberry Pi, it has few USB ports, Ethernet port, HDMI output and some GPIO pins to hook up some electronics. Quite a lot of GPIO pins actually, a lot more than on Raspberry Pi. And it runs Debian Linux from an SD card. So it’s perfect for doing some hardware hacking and I have been building something on it last week.
I decided to build a deploy button for a project I’m working on at work.
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Bulgaria PHP Conference 2015 & the PHP Community
A week ago I attended the first Bulgaria PHP Conference that was organized on September 26th and 27th 2015 in Sofia. Even though it was the first PHP conference in Bulgaria, the event was a real success. The venue was spectacular, the atmosphere was laid-back but still enthusiastic and energetic and the speaker line-up was very impressive.
Hardware
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Building a Deploy Button
I recently got a Olimex A20-OLinuXino-LIME mini computer as a speaker gift for speaking at the Bulgaria PHP Conference. It’s quite similar to a Raspberry Pi, it has few USB ports, Ethernet port, HDMI output and some GPIO pins to hook up some electronics. Quite a lot of GPIO pins actually, a lot more than on Raspberry Pi. And it runs Debian Linux from an SD card. So it’s perfect for doing some hardware hacking and I have been building something on it last week.
I decided to build a deploy button for a project I’m working on at work.
Python
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Building a Deploy Button
I recently got a Olimex A20-OLinuXino-LIME mini computer as a speaker gift for speaking at the Bulgaria PHP Conference. It’s quite similar to a Raspberry Pi, it has few USB ports, Ethernet port, HDMI output and some GPIO pins to hook up some electronics. Quite a lot of GPIO pins actually, a lot more than on Raspberry Pi. And it runs Debian Linux from an SD card. So it’s perfect for doing some hardware hacking and I have been building something on it last week.
I decided to build a deploy button for a project I’m working on at work.
Angular
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Running Angular tests in headless Chrome
Angular has some great tooling for running tests, namely Karma and Protractor. By default (at least when using Angular CLI) they run using Chrome. So when you execute the tests from command-line, it will pop open a browser window where the tests execute. This works well enough, but sometimes you either don’t want to see that browser window pop open or you are running the tests in an environment where there is no graphical environment (on a CI server or a Docker container for example).
There is nothing new in running Karma tests without a browser window, you have been able to do it with PhantomJS by installing the
karma-phantomjs-launcher. PhantomJS has been good enough solution for this, but you might encounter some issues every now and then and need to add some additional polyfills etc. But Chrome now has the ability to run in headless mode since version 59, so you can use it to run tests without needing to install any additional packages and with a more standard environment. -
Using RxJS Observables with AngularJS 1
Reactive programming with RxJS has become quite popular lately in the frontend world, partly because it is included in Angular 2 and many people have already started learning it even though a stable version is not out yet. But if you are currently working with Angular 1, you don’t have to wait until you start using Angular 2 in your production apps to start using RxJS, since RxJS itself is stable and can be used with any framework.
Whether you already know RxJS and the reactive programming concepts, or just want to learn more about them before you start using Angular 2 for real, this post will show how you can integrate RxJS with Angular 1 and get into reactive programming right now.
RxJS
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Using RxJS Observables with AngularJS 1
Reactive programming with RxJS has become quite popular lately in the frontend world, partly because it is included in Angular 2 and many people have already started learning it even though a stable version is not out yet. But if you are currently working with Angular 1, you don’t have to wait until you start using Angular 2 in your production apps to start using RxJS, since RxJS itself is stable and can be used with any framework.
Whether you already know RxJS and the reactive programming concepts, or just want to learn more about them before you start using Angular 2 for real, this post will show how you can integrate RxJS with Angular 1 and get into reactive programming right now.
JavaScript
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Running Angular tests in headless Chrome
Angular has some great tooling for running tests, namely Karma and Protractor. By default (at least when using Angular CLI) they run using Chrome. So when you execute the tests from command-line, it will pop open a browser window where the tests execute. This works well enough, but sometimes you either don’t want to see that browser window pop open or you are running the tests in an environment where there is no graphical environment (on a CI server or a Docker container for example).
There is nothing new in running Karma tests without a browser window, you have been able to do it with PhantomJS by installing the
karma-phantomjs-launcher. PhantomJS has been good enough solution for this, but you might encounter some issues every now and then and need to add some additional polyfills etc. But Chrome now has the ability to run in headless mode since version 59, so you can use it to run tests without needing to install any additional packages and with a more standard environment. -
Using RxJS Observables with AngularJS 1
Reactive programming with RxJS has become quite popular lately in the frontend world, partly because it is included in Angular 2 and many people have already started learning it even though a stable version is not out yet. But if you are currently working with Angular 1, you don’t have to wait until you start using Angular 2 in your production apps to start using RxJS, since RxJS itself is stable and can be used with any framework.
Whether you already know RxJS and the reactive programming concepts, or just want to learn more about them before you start using Angular 2 for real, this post will show how you can integrate RxJS with Angular 1 and get into reactive programming right now.