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Enforcing target descriptions within build files with a Git hook 23 Apr 2011 | 03:44 am
When automating mundane tasks of a project or development environment with a build tool like Phing or Ant, the driving build file will naturally accumulate several targets and tasks over time. To ease...
Measuring & displaying Phing build times with buildhawk 21 Nov 2010 | 04:30 am
Recently I installed a Ruby gem called buildhawk which allows to measure and display the build times of Rake driven builds. As I like the idea behind this tool a lot but mostly use Phing for build orc...
Growling PHPUnit's test status 3 Jun 2010 | 03:05 pm
Two years ago I blogged about a Xinc (R.I.P?) plugin that growls each build status for any via Xinc continuously integrated project. Since I'm using PHPUnit more and more lately, especially in continu...
Installing the PHP redis extension on Mac OS X 15 May 2010 | 05:53 pm
Recently I took a look at Redis, a popular and advanced key-value store. Peeking at the supported languages section of the project's website you'll notice a lot of client libraries available for PHP. ...
Using MongoHq in Zend Framework based applications 17 Mar 2010 | 08:32 am
As the name slightly foreshadows MongoHq is a currently bit pricey cloud-based hosting solution for MongoDb databases provided by CommonThread. Since they went live a few weeks ago I signed up for the...
Utilizing Twitter lists with Zend_Service_Twitter 5 Feb 2010 | 02:05 pm
Several months ago Twitter added the list feature to it's public API. While debating some use cases for an event registration application I stumbled upon an interesting feature, which adds participant...
Closing and reopening GitHub issues via PHPUnit tests 20 Jan 2010 | 10:41 am
Since PHPUnit 3.4.0 a new extension point for interacting with issue tracking systems (TTS) based on the test results has been added to PHP's first choice xUnit framework. The extension point has been...
Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development book review 15 Oct 2009 | 09:22 am
As the days are rapidly getting shorter, my reading appetite grows potentially and this evening I finished the 'Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development' book written by Keith Pope. While Keith ...
Logging to MongoDb and accessing log collections with Zend_Tool 20 Sep 2009 | 07:00 am
Influenced by a recent blog post of a colleague of mine and by being kind of broke on a Saturday night; I tinkered with the just recently discovered MongoDb and hooked it into the Zend_Log environment...
Kicking off custom Phing task development with TextMate 23 Aug 2009 | 01:08 am
As a reader of this blog you migth have noticed that from time to time I like to utilize Phing's ability to write custom tasks. Though that's not an everyday routine for me and therefor I might, depen...
