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Next Friday 26th June 2015 at 6 p.m., my first solo exhibition kicks off here in London with aperitifs and free chicchetti, or bites, Venetian-style.

This article is an excursus on few technologies I've been using in these recent years that had improved the way we develop and ship our code.

If you're a solo developer, freelancer or just the I-do-everything wo/man this might be useful to you as well, but you'll notice that a greater benefit will be for a team.

I've spent some sleepless nights and stressful days trying to understand why the latest versions of PHPUnit won't work anymore on any of our dev boxes. It almost drove me mad.

It was like chasing a ghost: you fix one thing, you think everything should now work, you try again, then: SBAM! Another error is bitch-slapping you some truth in your face. Iterate over a dozen times and you'll know how I felt. This was my state until I found about CodeCeption.

Since I've started working in my current company, I've been researching, learning and mentoring about proper project management, while trying to find the best solution that could work within a digital agency environment. I come from a purely Agile environment, such as SCRUM and XP, and my first steps when our team started to grow have been in that direction.

In this article I'll try to expose what had let me choose Kanban over SCRUM or XP for our digital team.

During the last few years I've started to attend the London Yii Meetup and as we are using Yii quite extensibly at work, we're also trying to do as much TDD as possible.

I'm presenting here the slides that accompanied the talk I've given in June 2013. I will also try to dig into some of the fears that some developers have while approaching Unit Testing and TDD.