Git PHP lint pre-commit hook
This post describes a small tweak to make to php lint checking via a git pre-commit hook. Using git hooks to check syntax errors – Tim Akinbo’s Blog
PHP
JSON supplanting XML
Lessons: Use Cases matter, and programmers (the users in this case) will choose tools that are both simple, in that they are not complicated/over-engineered, and easy to use, requiring little setup and code to accomplish a task. For parsing data with PHP, constrast using something like SimpleXML or DOMDocument (which is light-years better than where
Drupal: Invoke blocks and views from code
While Panels is great for controlling the layout of drupal pages, there are times when you can’t use the module to theme a page. For uncached content, it does introduce some performance overhead into the drupal request change. It can also be tedious to migrate changes from one environment to the other if you don’t
Feature module example to bundle WYSIWYG Configuration
This is a concise example showing how you can use the Features module to bundle configurations in Drupal into a module. It's great to see the Drupal community moving towards using code to capture, reuse, and deploy configuration settings. It's been the biggest pain point in working with Drupal for me. One of the things
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NetBeans 6.9 is out.
There's a new release of the the one full-blown IDE that I've managed to stick with. If Eclipse doesn't fit your style, give Netbeans a spin – I like its inline code completion, the source-code beautifier, and the integration with SVN and Mercurial. I particularly find the source control usability much better than Eclipse. After
TekX – Introduction to Testing with Selenium
Arne Blankerts – part of thePHP.cc, premium PHP consulting and training. Selenium is a java based portable testing framework. Seleniumm RC runs any browser supported by the framework, firefox, opera, etc Can operate/execute ANY browser available on the host machine On Linux, have to tweak how process is shutdown. Selenium IDE – extension for Firefox
Day 2 Keynote – 10 Developer Trends
Today's keynote is about trends that developers across platforms and languages will face. None of these should be big surprise if you keep up to date and "read the internet". Presented by the VP of Technology at dzone.com. The Rise of Agile and Lean Majority of developers report using Agile, but it means different things
Code and Release Management notes
I'm attending tekx, and while I'm taking notes in all the sessions with Evernote, I'll try to clean up and summarize my notes here as well. One of the session's I attended yesterday was Eli White's session on Code and Release management. It focused more on the techniques, policies, and practices to think about about
Habari Project impressions
I have to admit that i jumped over to using Habari for my blog mainly based on how well designed and obejct oriented the underlying API seemed from the documentation. Coming from looking at Drupal code all day, which is painfully NOT Object Oriented, yes with capitals, the code is more readable and, so far,
The new "Bytes in the Margin"
Its time to relaunch my blog as Bytes in the Margin. I like the new name, which is not an anagram of my own name. I was inspired by all the notebooks I have from school and work meetings, which are decorated with pen and pencil doodles in the margin. While the title is new,