When dealing with external projects that you either want to re-use parts of or refactor, being able to write unit tests is often a big problem, especially if it’s written in procedural code like; function aFunctionIWantToTest($foo) &#1...

reviews:guide_to_php_design_patterns - Review of php|architect's Guide to PHP Design Patterns

PHP5 has been available for more than a year and the last six months has seen both IBM and Oracle announcing strategies based around PHP. It’s perhaps another sign of PHP‘s growing maturity that php architect magazine has published their...

develop:twisted_aggregator - Add example of Python twisted RSS aggregator with conditional GET support

Following something Christian Stocker brought up in Fetching a looot of feeds with PHP , this is a hack for an Rss aggregator with twisted to add Conditional GET support. from twisted.internet import reactor, protocol, defer from twisted.web import ...

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(19th Oct 2005) Here’s some more detail about what’s going on. This site is becoming a wiki. The #1 problem with the old site was the person running it. The plan here is I get out of the way and it becomes a useful repository of desig...