I often get a bad back from sitting at a computer all day, so I thought I’d try a standing desk. After 3 weeks of standing, I think I’d find it hard to go back to sitting down all day – I really enjoy working standing up. Here what I’m using now:
Here’s a modern web development setup:
SauceLabs provide a great hosted Selenium service for cross-browser testing in the cloud, which allows you to run a Selenium test suite against multiple browsers using the SauceLabs API and SauceConnect. They also provide integration with PHPUnit, so that you can plug your SauceLabs Selenium tests directly into your PHPUnit test suite. Sometimes, though, you …
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I’ll be giving a talk about agile development on the 26th July 2012, in Douglas on the Isle of Man – more details here: http://www.bcs.org.im/2012/07/agile-masterclass-xp-scrum-and-lean-startups-july-26th/
I had a problem with the PEAR installer with the Guzzle package (a generally excellent PHP HTTP framework). A channel discover would give the following error: root@ip-10-56-47-23:~# pear channel-discover guzzlephp.org/pear Discovering channel guzzlephp.org/pear over http:// failed with message: channel-add: Cannot open “http://guzzlephp.org/pear/channel.xml” (File http://guzzlephp.org:80/pear/channel.xml not valid (received: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found )) Trying to discover …
We use Jenkins to deploy code to multiple servers, so that we can manage builds and deployments from the same (even better if you’re using the Jenkins IRC plugin). The deployment is done by a parameterized build job, where the parameter is the version of the project that we want to deploy. The job will …
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We usually work on several parallel branches of a repo on github, and we wanted to be able to build and test any branch on demand. So we set up a parameterised job in Jenkins that will take the name of a branch and run the build process. As for all github builds, you need …
We’re moving our development projects into github, so we wanted to get a copy of the code (checked out of Subversion) into a new project in github. Here are the steps (assumes that you’ve set up your ssh keys correctly, according to e.g. http://help.github.com/linux-set-up-git/) Setup the git globals: $ git config –global user.name “Julian Higman” $ …
The Drush Make utility downloads modules from ftp.drupal.org during the build – but the ftp.drupal.org site is currently down, which means Drush Make won’t work (and so our continuous integration has ground to a halt). There’s a fix for general Drush usage here: http://contrib.linalis.com/content/continuer-dutiliser-drush-quand-ftpdrupalorg-est-down That fix changes the download url to use drupal.org (which is …
I like the way trackpad edge-scrolling allows you to “coast” (start scrolling with the edge of the trackpad, then release it, and the scrolling continues until you tap the trackpad again). It’s not enabled by default on Ubuntu 10.04, but here’s how to turn it on (put it in a startup script): xinput set-prop –type=float …