Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development
I’ve recently begun working on a PHP-based project and wanted to introduce unit testing into the mix to cover some of the core code.
On my local development environment, I’m running an WAMP stack (specifically with XAMPP) and was looking for a solid unit test framework for PHP. Continue reading
This week has been one of those weeks.
Not much in the way of bookmarking, but there are a few things worth sharing…
Kind of a slow week in cool articles around the web.
Still, here’s what I’ve found…
After sharing the widget on a couple of sites (such as Forrst), I received a great, candid feedback.
As such, I just published a quick update to my Tipsy Social Icon widget: Continue reading
I’ve been doing some work with the SharpBox Libraries for cloud-based programming and kept coming up with build errors within Visual Studio.
Specifically, I had added the libraries as references in my project but the compilation process kept failing on all references to the SharpBox AppLimit namespace. Continue reading
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