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Adventures in code: PHP unit testing

If you want to make a PHP package available that works on versions of PHP from 5.3 to 8.0, testing is a giant pain. There are versions of phpunit that work for each, but none that works for all. Additionally, the basic class names changed at some point in the past. Getting all of this to run on Travis, including running code coverage (but only once for each build!) was a complex series of trials, but I finally figured out the correct .travis.yml incantation, along with a magic test wrapper for aliasing classes

Idea Instructions

Software algorithms as Ikea instruction manuals.

Doom 3 Source

This review of Doom 3's source release is full of tons of interesting stuff, even for non-graphics programmers. [via waferbaby]

Javelin JS

Javelin JS is full of interesting little things - always fun to find out what compormises other teams make to allow their particular development model to scale. The css classes vs sigils part makes a lot of sense.

1st April, 2:46 am

rev dan catt has written up a nice piece on image processing for backgrounds. a really nice effect

29th March, 9:41 pm

the macpaint and quickdraw source is available on the computer history museum site

8th September, 6:10 pm

lots of good projects coming out of node.js right now - Uglify JS is a JS minifier based on a JS AST parser and tree walker. Could do some neat things with that.

8th February, 8:37 am

learning javascript oddities from wikipedia: using !! for normalization and the return from || and &&. nice

4th April, 7:15 pm

kellan points out this interesting old TPJ article on problems with localization and gettext. the solution isn't really any good, but the problem is real

28th November, 10:52 pm

a new version of the php rfc (2)822 parser is now out, fixing a nasty bug that allowed extra periods almost anywhere in the address. oops