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Raúl - [^BgTA^]

Designing For Every Browser: How To Make Your Site Fully Cross Browser Compatible > Des... - 0 views

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  • Raúl - [^BgTA^] on 22 Oct 07
     
    Designing For Every Browser: How To Make Your Site Fully Cross Browser Compatible
Sarah HL

ongoing · Test-Driven Heresy - 0 views

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shared by Sarah HL on 02 Jul 09 - Cached
  • As a profession, we do a lot more software maintenance than we do greenfield development.
  • the deep-TDD rules: ¶ Never write code until you have a failing test. Never write any more code than is necessary to un-fail the test.
  • we do way more maintenance than initial development. And in my experience, the first-cut release of any nontrivial software is pretty well crap.
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  • But to do that well, you absolutely must have enough test coverage that you just aren’t afraid to rip your code’s guts out
  • I always end up sketching in a few classes and then tearing them up and re-sketching, and after a few iterations I’m starting to have a feeling for X and Y.
  • I freely admit that this is not really truly TDD
  • once you’re into maintenance mode, there are really no excuses. Because you really know what all your X’s and Y’s are
  • Writing the tests points out all the mistakes you might make in signatures, prerequisites, etc. If the tests are too hard to make then you know that your API will be too hard to use, you're doing it completely wrong, and may as well pause for a rethink.
  • While the approach you advocate makes sense, it does require professionalism, not just from the developer but from management too.
  • the person left to maintain the code isn't the person who wrote it, leaving the maintainer with an unholy mess to untangle. Getting unit tests into such code is a monumental task.
  • he failure to address how unit tests can be introduced to an existing non unit-test codebase. (i.e. go from non-TDD to TDD)
  • I feel the TDD community only wants to focus on greenfield projects and has ignored maintenance/legacy issues. Which is strange when as you say code spends most of it's time in maintenance
  • The thing is that as long as the project is small you really don't see the benefits of TDD. I've done a couple of small projects and never had to go back to them ever again
  • Never use mocks unless you are mocking an interface that will almost never change
  • You are writing the client code (in the form of a test) so you are thinking how the worker code will be used. What is its public interface and what do you want it to do when it's called
  • From: Tathagata Chakraborty (Jun 24 2009, at 07:31)TDD is useful in another situation - in a commercial setting and when detailed specification documents have already been created by say a technical expert/architect. In this case you don't have to do a lot of designing while coding, so you can start off with the test cases.
  • writing the tests *first* is that it helps keep your code focused on exactly what it's meant to do, and no more
  • When work on production code begins, most of the code should fall into the categories of things that are not to be tested.
  • In theory, TDD is a great idea. The problem with TDD can be expressed in one word: money.
  • One approach to the unknown X and Y problem that I've been using recently has been to pretend that class X has been written already, and then write code that uses this pretend X object/API. I usually write this directly in the file that will become my unit test. Since X doesn't exist, I'm allowed to call whatever methods I want and pretend it all works. Once I'm satisfied with how it all looks, I cut and paste everything into a bunch of failing tests.
  • I get really bored adding tests to code that already runs
  • the seductive TDD trap
  • religious zealots
  • There is nothing wrong with building tests after you have built your product.
  • that goes a long way towards taking software development from a form of artisanal craftsmanship to a real engineering profession.
  • using tests to drive development cripples innovation, dramatically slows development
  • It always seem to me to be a codified form of reverse engineering, or at least a way to force the programmers into looking at their code from two separate angles at the same time.
  • If you're just adding tests at the end, then it's normal unit-testing, isn't it?
  • I do realize that this type of exercise might help younger coders in getting better structure, they do often rush in too quickly and focus more on the instructions than the abstractions.
  • TDD is test-driven *design*
  • He said he didn't write tests in cases where it would have taken him several hours to get a working test for a small piece of code.
  • In some applications, objects are self-contained, activities are sequential, and algorithms are tricky
  • I've seen cases where people have wrecked the architecture of systems in the name of making them testable... But have never written the tests.
  • Yes, it's possible to make peace with testability, and in the best situation, testability can improve the architecture of a program, but it can also lead people away from highly reliable and maintainable KISS approaches.
  • Like any infrastructure, it is always beneficial to provide unit testing. The most benefit is derived from installing it as early on in the project as possible.
  • The value of an untested feature, to a client, is ... zero. So, it doesn't matter how many of these you have rattled off in the past week, your net throughput is effectively... zero."
  • You can see in this thread the word "professionalism" (substitute "morality" with little gain/loss of substance) and even "sin" (used in jest, but not really!)
  • if I delay writing unit tests until after all the units are working together then because the system "already works" my subconscious enthusiasm for writing unit tests falls markedly, and so their quality and coverage fall
  • Experience teaches that if I generate that output by hand (1) it takes *much* longer (2) I almost always get it wrong. So I often write the code, get its output, carefully check it (really...) and then use it as the correct result.
  • My main objections to TDD are: 1) it promotes micro-design over macro-design and 2) it's hard to apply in practice (i.e. for any code that is not a bowling card calculator or a stack).
  • the tests are just a persistent artifact of the exploratory coding I've already done.
Jungle Jar

JungleJar | Looking at Wordpress Custom Fields and Images Further - 0 views

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  • Jungle Jar on 06 Oct 09
     
    You may remember a previous article I wrote here on JungleJar.com called Using Custom Fields To Post Your Images, but if not, I'm going to reintroduce a few of the code snippets and methods I wrote about in the tutorial about how to save and display image data from custom fields within Wordpress. In this article I'm also going to cover a few of the small yet robust code block methods I myself tend to practice quite a bit that I didn't previously touch on. So, if you're looking for a solid tutorial on how to use Wordpress Custom Fields to display blog post thumbnails in an easy and flexible manner, then this article is for you.
javatpoints

Introduction to Linux Tutorial for Beginners and Professional - javatpoint - 0 views

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  • javatpoints on 27 Jun 16
     
    How to Learn Online Linux ? JavaTpoint provides a Online Linux Tutorial for Beginners and Professionals with examples on files, directories, permission, backup, ls, man, pwd, cd, chmod, man, shell, pipes, filters, regex, vi etc..
cafe software

Better Control of My Sales and Inventory - 2 views

I did not imagine using a cafe POS system can be a turning point for my business. Everything is transparent and clear. I can track everything from how many glasses of wines I sold down to how many ...

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samantha armstrong

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I was having problems with my laptop before. Good thing FixComputerpProblemsSite helped me fix it. And they are really the experts when it comes to solving any computer related issues. They can eas...

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javatpoints

Learn How to Create Table in Oracle ? - javaTpoint - 0 views

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  • javatpoints on 27 Jun 16
     
    Oracle Create Table for beginners and professionals with examples on insert, select, update, delete, table, view, join, key, functions, procedures, indexes, cursor etc.
clariene Austria

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We know how expensive websites can cost. And we know how expensive SEO can be. We don't want you to get into overdraft to get a website, but we don't want to design a low quality website as well. S...

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Markus Potter

Never Pay for Leads Again! Online Leads are Free. - 1 views

Leads don't grow in trees. You probably know the value of a lead to your business and how much you would pay for a lead. But what if you could create a system for generating leads that worked 24/7 ...

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clariene Austria

Never Pay for Leads Again! Online Leads are Free. - 3 views

Leads don't grow in trees. You probably know the value of a lead to your business and how much you would pay for a lead. But what if you could create a system for lead generation websites that work...

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Richard Boss

Steps to Write PHP Code in Joomla Article | TechNet - 0 views

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    This article explores you how to follow steps to write PHP code in Joomla article. In this post, you will get full information. Read this post now!
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Creating a Basic Chat System on a Website using AJAX - - 1 views

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  • Hostforlife Hosting on 02 Jul 15
     
    Chat application is very common in web today. In this post, we will explain you how to create a simple chat application using PHP, AJAX and MySql.
qualitypoint Tech

Adding piece of PHP code in all files within a sub-folder - 4 views

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  • qualitypoint Tech on 11 Jun 10
     
    In this post I will explain about how to add piece of php code in all files (including new files to be added) within a particular sub-folder in Apache server hosting environment. Let me explain why we need to add piece of php code in all files within a folder.
  • Bart Deruyter on 11 Jun 10
     
    I wanted to read it, but I won't, because Chromium blocked it and gave me a warning that the site hosts malware... just to let you know.
  • qualitypoint Tech on 12 Jun 10
     
    Bart Deruyter Thanks for your note, now it should be fine.we removed unwanted external links.
sloansteddi

How to use PHP and PEAR MDB2 (Tutorial) | David and Katherine Goodwin - 0 views

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      sloansteddi on 02 Mar 09
       
      Prepare takes the $sql (with '?'s where data will go), along with the TYPES (array) of data to prepare the sql for, and a 3rd paramater for manipulating or result-getting (see next paragraph). It assigns this to $prepared_statement. Another array is created with the data (in the same order as the types, of course), and the RESULT is aquired by running the execute() method on the $prepared_statement object, passing the execute method the "$data" array to fill in the '?'s After this do everything as normal.
  • column = ?
  • id = ?
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  • I have a feeling that MDB2 lower cases all field names - so you'll probably need : echo $row['name'] A good idea would be to print_r($row) or similar, to see what's in it
  • sloansteddi on 02 Mar 09
     
    A great walk through on getting started with MDB2
sloansteddi

PEAR::Pager Tutorials - Paginate database results - 0 views

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PEAR pager paginate pager_wrapper PHP database database abstraction

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  • Method #2: Pager_Wrapper to the rescue!
  • sloansteddi on 08 Mar 09
     
    This tutorial explains how to paginate database results using PEAR::Pager and Pager_Wrapper. The latter is useful, because without it (Pager_Wrapper), you are selecting the ENTIRE result set for each page, which undoes one of the important advantages of paginating.
Sarah HL

PHP Depends On You | BrandonSavage.net - 0 views

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  • elf in the community
  • PHP is one of the world’s largest open source projects.
  • people who write open source software generally aren’t paid to do it.
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  • the core of PHP is contributed by people who are solely interested in making PHP better for their professional endeavors
  • it can be as simple as contributing to the documentation, or submitting a bug report
  • The community exists because people choose to contribute.
  • file a bug report or write some documentation today.
  • Remember: PHP depends on people just like you.
  • My Boss told me to prepare a paper how we interact good with open source project and how we can generate a win win situation on both sides by submitting (correct) bugreports.
Sarah HL

PHP Worst Practices at blog.phpdeveloper.org - 0 views

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shared by Sarah HL on 25 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Beware the Outsiders
  • Sure, you could cobble together your own library to add that feature and yes, it might integrate excellently with your code, but what does that gain you? One of the points of Open Source development is to share your knowledge with the rest of the community.
  • Unplanification
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  • This would be the combined voices of everyone in your past that tried to teach you the mantra: “Plan First, Code Later”.
  • The Documentation Wasteland
  • If you’re writing your code without any sort of documentation, you’re dooming you and possibly future maintainers of the code into many a pointless search to try to figure out why method a() returns two completely different value types depending on which parameters it’s given.
  • ets you know the “why” instead of just the “how” the code gives you
  • You’d be surprised how often you’ll find yourself referring to it once it’s reliable.
  • Free Your Mind
  • You, as a developer, know that there’s always more than one way to solve a problem.
  • Just like ‘anti patterns’, who are an important read as well, ‘worst practices’ help developers avoid mistakes.
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