We came across a strange thing with the mock framework in PhpUnit . We had some test code that created a mock for a Store class, and gave it a method to mock out: $mockStore = $this->getMock(‘Store’, array(‘save’)); That seemed to work fine in the tests, we could setup expectations, the correct return …
I spent a couple of days last week at the JISC dev8D “un-conference” (see http://code.google.com/p/developerhappinessdays/) and gave a talk on building semantic web applications. The slides are at http://www.slideshare.net/jhigman/semantic-web-applications. Some of the highlights for me from the lightning talks were Georgi Kobilarov of the Freie Universität Berlin, and George Kroner from Blackboard. Georgi Kobilarov gave a great description of Linked Open Data, …
It always amused me that when I searched for myself in Google Images (go on, everyone does it..) I’d find this unrepresentative picture of me from the days when I played ice-hockey. But then recently it disappeared. The team website got revamped, and – since I haven’t been in the team for years – my dodgy …
We’ve been using Cruise Control as our continuous integration system for ages, but problems with Subversion checkouts finally drove us to try Hudson as an alternative. It’s fantastic – configurable from the UI, it archives build logs as well as artifacts, it’s got console output in the browser, and so on. Why didn’t we switch …