Making Websites With YiiBoilerplate Guides
December 22, 2013
While making websites with Yii framework for medium-sized businesses over and over again, we adopted a standard way of structuring the project over time.
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HATE TIME Thoughts
December 2, 2013
Things in the source code I hate perhaps the most in my everyday work
Consistent UI with YiiBooster Guides
October 29, 2013
Imagine for a moment what it takes to write UI using the Twitter Bootstrap UI toolkit in the views of Yii-based web application.
How to package and use Yii framework in PHAR Guides
July 20, 2013
Okay, today's the task: pushing all of 1892 files of Yii framework to the Git repository is a burden, and upgrading it to new version pollutes the git log with changes to files you don't care about. Let's package it into a PHAR!
Running Database Dependent Tests on Ramdisk Experiments
June 29, 2013
Today's guess is this: you have a test harness which utilizes the database, and it has enough test cases in it for full test run to be so slow you cringe at the very thought of launching it.
Real-world Acceptance Testing with Behat Guides
May 31, 2013
Okay, today let’s say you have a working webapp providing some functionality to it’s users. And, let’s say you test this functionality manually. You have the long document describing how things should work and on each iteration you sit down, open your application and start clicking and filling forms and checking that all is going according to specs.
Of course this is pure horror, but it’s something that should be done to be sure that after all changes in current iteration your features aren’t broken, so, you don’t have regression errors.
Of course, there is a clean and obvious solution to automate this process.
Setting up crossbrowser testing of Javascript with TestSwarm and Browserstack Guides
April 9, 2013
Okay, this one is not free as in free beer; Browserstack requires a paid subscription.
How to set EMACS fonts rendering the same as the other KDE applications Guides
November 11, 2012
Here's how to fix the default too wide and too "round" fonts rendered in EMACS under KDE (and maybe other DE, too).
Über prompt string for modern commandline Experiments
November 11, 2012
Okay. Today’s XXI century already. You have colored commandlines everywhere and you have basically single-user *nix OSes. Now it’s time to shift from default commandline prompt strings to something more useful (and fancy, of course).
On Clean Coders episodes 6 through 8 Thoughts
October 31, 2012
Just watched the episodes 6, 7 and 8 of Clean Coders codecasts, namely, “TDD part 2”, “Architecture” and “SOLID principles”, and just could not stay silent about the awesomeness of this works.