Category: Work
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PHPNW12: Ade Oshineye on Dev Experience, API Design and Craft Skills
These are the notes I made not so much of what Ade was saying, although some of the following was said by Ade, but also of my thoughts as he spoke. Really great talk, thank you Ade. Apprenticeship patterns: acquisition, transmission, growth. We are all API designers, we all write functions we ourselves use later…
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Is it possible to install PHPUnit on MacPorts right now?
Short answer: I can’t, but I’d be very very happy if someone could help me update this post to get it to install!
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Speeding myself up on the commandline
I tend to find myself in the terminal.app on my Mac more often than not, SSHing into servers, checking whois, host, and any number of other things. My most frequent incantation is searching the command history so I don’t have to re-type a previous command, something like this: I’ll then copy and paste the command…
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A quick custom plugin to import redirections into Safe Redirect Manager
At Code for the People we’ve just imported a load of blogposts from Drupal into WordPress. One of the differences is that Drupal encodes fancy characters, like typographically nice “quote marks”, into the URL whereas WordPress mostly drops them. We ended up with about 80 URLs which had changed and the need for a redirections…
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Alfred extension: Convert clipboard to plain text
Update: Well, what do you I know? It turns out that Andrew, developer of Alfred, has already got this covered and my weak Google-Fu didn’t turn it up: plain text paste in Alfred. So don’t use my version, use his. I got tired of copying formatted text from a web page, pasting into a text…
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SVN checkout with no externals
I use Subversion externals extensively for my projects, and occasionally it’s useful or quicker to check something out without including all the externals; here’s the commandline incantation to do that:
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Clickable stack traces with Netbeans
I’m clearly in a fickle mood this month, as I’ve changed my PHP editor again, this time to Netbeans (thanks to the tireless nagging of @JJJ)… so far, so good. I particularly love being able to jump to declarations quickly and easily. One hurdle I overcame today, and I’d be interested to know if there’s…
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Clickable stack traces with PHP Xdebug and Sublime Text (other editors/IDEs are available)
Have a look at this. Ugly, isn’t it? But so so useful.