Quick Web Console for Rapid PHP Prototyping
Today I ran into a pearl by skimming over @Seldaek’s repos. I found this https://github.com/Seldaek/php-console. It is a web type console, like those online consoles where we can try our snippets, the...
View ArticleChallenge Made Public Using Symfony2 Bleeding Tweaks
It is well known I attended desymfony conference in Madrid, Spain. There a company handed out some leaflets and threw up a challenge. I want to share the challenge with you the symfony way in my...
View ArticleSchool of Prophets: Start Small, start with Pimple
Lately I decided to speck Pimple . PHPSpec is a great tool, but everytime that I look more into it and the people who use it I am more convinced that it is like a school. First of all you learn BDD...
View ArticleTip: Symfony2 Production Settings With Doctrine Checks
I found today a tip from the doctrine configuration and command to check for production settings correctness. The command in question is the following: ~ php app/console...
View ArticlePHPSpec Home Schooling: Part III – Let’s do it guys /o/
Ok, so here is what i came up with a bit of more work. It is just the tests, I think there were some basic improvements but also I notice some things could be done to shorten or simplify the size of...
View ArticlePHPSpecking From Bus Tour to Huaraz: Part IV
I a on a bus PHPSpecking, today I was contributing to namshi/notificator repository and attempted to replace a phpunit test to learn Prophecy library tied to PHPSpec. Here I will show first the result...
View ArticleMy friends and so much favor from God
I am so glad to share the good news I got a talk accepted for October to the phpconference.com.ar conference. One of the biggest if not the biggest in South America on PHP and more. I feel very humbled...
View ArticleIn difficulty understanding God’s joy in doing what I do
I got an acute bronchitis over the past weeks, and my daughter just threw up because of an already treated respiratory infection. I want to say thanks God firstly, lest you think I am angry for this. I...
View ArticleReviewing Symfony2 The Symfony Way
The past weeks i have had a chance to review the book that is coming up in few days. It has been a privilege being able to study and review and suggest corrections to the material. I am definitely...
View ArticleLean Book on Symfony2 E-commerce
Hello there! Surprise, big news now. http://www.pilotci.com my old domain has become the place to sell a dear book I am working on with the best of my ability. So in the first place let me introduce...
View ArticleSymfony2 Ecommerce Book Using Easybook Project for Lean Development!
I have discovered a beautiful tool in easybook. This open source software tool based on Symfony2 is amazing and I am using it to create the latest Lean Book on Symfony2 Ecommerce that is being sold...
View ArticleSymfony2 Easybook Powering Translation of The Preaching of The Gospel!
It is with great gladness I share this blog post. Basically to call the community that speaks many languages to help contribute to this repository I have started,...
View ArticleUpgrade to PHP5.5 with brew on top of your old PHP5.4
So I had some problems installing php55 on my mac and here is the summary of the solution because if you are not working on php55 you are missing on stuff: My machine had php54 but this one other had...
View ArticleVespolina and Sylius Hacking Days: Symfony2 Ecommerce Tools
Today Vespolina and Sylius hacking days started almost one after the other. There are interesting contributions and development happening on both sides of the spectrum. Lots of similarities and the...
View ArticleEvery story is different, but the answer is all the same. The answer is Jesus...
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View ArticleGrunt.js + Symfony2 Big Brother Watches Your PHPSpec Descriptions
Straight to the point! Drop a couple of files into your Symfony2′s project directory or any php library: Gruntfile.js module.exports = function (grunt) { grunt.initConfig({ shell: { tests: { command: [...
View ArticleSymfony2 Checks For Composer and Database
A friend of mine @markbadolato got me into using this git post-checkout hook: https://gist.github.com/mbadolato/5869968 update: he also made a blog post with more explanations. #!/bin/bash # Put this...
View ArticlePHPSpec It Like A Junior: Part V
Previous episodes: Part VI Part III Part II Part I Part 0 As I promised sometime and delivering now even though late, here is the Part V of the series. So I got into phpspecking this Notificator...
View ArticlePorting your PHPUnit legacy test suite to PhpSpec Adventures: Part VI
Previous episodes: Part V Part VI Part III Part II Part I Part 0 Sharing some experiences while moving a phpunit test suite over to PhpSpec. - The treatment of abstract classes, say in PhpSpec I find...
View ArticleUpgrade: Symfony2 Ecommerce Strikes Again
Upgraded! Yes Lean Book on Symfony2 Ecommerce is growing chapters and being written in 3 languages, integrating payment gateway advanced, so lots of work! The site will soon have more features proving...
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