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Posted on Thu, 17 Apr 2014

CodeCeption introduction and use in Yii

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. …
- Testing
- Programming
- Yii
- Unit Testing
- TDD
- BDD
5 minutes read
Posted on Fri, 24 Jan 2014

Walking the Kanban way

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. …
- Agile
- Project Management
- SCRUM
- XP
- Kanban
3 minutes read
Posted on Fri, 3 Jan 2014

Unit Testing and test driven mentality

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. …
- Yii
- Unit Testing
- PHP
- TDD
5 minutes read
Posted on Mon, 18 Nov 2013

A little bump on the clown car

In this post I'm going to outline the effort, and see what are the pros and cons of using the Clown Car Technique to solve one of the biggest problems of the RWI , i.e. serve, with only one tag, more than one image depending on the media breakpoint. …
- CSS
- RWD
- SVG
- Android
- Web Design
3 minutes read
Posted on Sat, 5 Nov 2011

How Yii virtual attributes work

In this article I'd like to share some technical insights of a very useful aspect of Yii models: virtual attributes, how to use them correctly and avoid possible problems and headaches. Although the actual content of the article is definitely targeted towards Yii developers, I'll try to link as much as possible to additional resources for anyone can actually explore the content a little bit more. …
- Programming
- Yii
- PHP
5 minutes read