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TwitterSome years ago, at University, I used to play with AutoIt, a simple and handy language to make executable for Windows, perfect for automation on Windows machines, including interaction with web applications / REST services. With that language I made a simple software (ELCITimer) to perform actions (Windows API / display message / close window by title [...]
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PHPUnit manual, amazon kindle format with indexes
Posted by admin on July 17th, 2011
Download the manual. html single file format from here  http://www.phpunit.de/manual/3.6/en/phpunit-book.html Edit and remove the part before the # in the links Send it to your kindle mail username@free.kindle.com Or download the zipped file with html replaced here PHPUnit Manual3.6.html.zip 100 kb
How to manage developers
Posted by admin on February 2nd, 2011
I’ve just read this article and I’ll report some parts of it with my comments Do you work with lenient working hours? “Enforcing a 9 to 5 working day is fine when you are running a factory. But at 5 o’clock, a programmer doesn’t stop thinking about the problems and tasks at hand. [...]. Their [...]
PHP vs JAVA developers
Posted by admin on September 8th, 2010
JAVA developers sometimes tend to look down on other developers, including PHP developers. I think that is mainly due to ignorance of the current state of things and fear of seeing a competing technology growing so fast and being adopted more and more for a wide range of applications on the web. Another explanation is [...]
Dropbox, a swiss-knife tool for developers
Posted by admin on August 1st, 2010
Among the tools I consider useful, Dropbox is one ! It offers a free online storage space of 2 Gb with automatic synchronization with local directory and versioning ! I personally use to keep my digital books, guides, code snippets, software (php, apache, mysql, portable graphic software, IDEs, etc…) between two houses and workplace. Nice features [...]
PHP UK conference 2010 talks
Posted by admin on February 28th, 2010
I attended the PHP UK conference 2010 on Friday. Unfortunately the event took place in one day, so there were three talks at each time slot in different rooms. I had to choice the most promising each time. It was a pity to have some very interesting ones at the same time (like AntiPHPatterns and [...]
PHP UK 2009 conference – talk slides
Posted by admin on February 27th, 2010
I’ve just searched and found the slides of the online talks made at the PHP conference 2009 that I couldn’t attend. For some of them, a few-line-summary.
Who reads this blog ?
Posted by admin on January 30th, 2010
This is the map made by google analytics on this blog. It’s rather foreseeable to see which are the countries more interested in a technical blog. I’m only surprised to see no visits from China and Norway, as well as same number of visitors from Spain and Ukraine and Romania. To obtain a better paid [...]
My Zend Certification
Posted by admin on January 20th, 2010
Just passed my ZCE PHP5!! 90 tech questions, some of them answerable only by reading some books, some others by knowing the exact behaviour and arguments of PHP5 functions and settings (quite a lot of stuff to remember considering also XML, PDO, STD lib,streams and filters), some other only with work experience, some of them [...]
