March 2020 – It’s a crazy time right now. We should all do what we can to help each other, But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. If you have a PHP based website that needs help to be able to keep up with the amount of traffic, I may be able to help, and will happily discuss your situation, and make some suggestions, or help you make the changes that can help.
Contact me by email at alister@phpscaling.com.
Thus far, I’ve not done anything serious with much more with database like Mysql, some Postgres and on the NoSql side MongoDB (with a frisson of some use of Redis for some barely-more-than basic things), but I saw some mention …
Slow running tests are a bug – they stop you from doing as much as you can with your code, & its quality. Spend a little time working on making your tests better, clearer, and faster – and you’ll reap …
Speeding up your tests, and also your code coverage! Read more »
In early 2016, I suggested an addition to the SncRedis-bundle. The project itself is an fully-featured add-on (‘bundle’) for Symfony framework projects to easily do a number of very useful interface functions between Symfony and the Redis database/cache. It can, …
A recent post showed how to setup Code Tombstones – but there are other , even more insidious pieces of code in a project. The code you know you aren’t using now, but you wrote ahead of time – because you …
Improve your code coverage percentage – delete code! Read more »
While Twitter can be really annoying, sometimes it can help to promote some wonderfully simple ideas. One of these came from Andrew Woods (@awoods) – a github repo called php-in-seattle. It’s a simple idea – just a list of companies around a …
Version 0.9 of scheb/tombstone autoloads a file with a tombstone() function. See the bottom of the post for a fix to override that in your own code. In a large project – particularly one in a dynamic language like PHP, …
One of the advantages of a side-project is that you can be a little extra passionate about getting things just right. If you want to increase code coverage because you think that it’s good, you can – after all, it’s …
Replacing @expectedException with $this->expectException() Read more »
Having just watched Sebastian Bergmann’s “The State of PHPUnit” presentation from Fosdem 2015, I was inspired to install and test a project of mine with the latest stable PHPUnit – v4.7. It was easily installed on the command line. composer …
Upgrading PHPunit – fixing PHPUnit_Util_DeprecatedFeature_Logger Read more »
Just a quick note to point out a couple of presentations on Queuing. I’ve recently shown the second (which admittedly has some significant things in common with the original, and not just the web-based slides). Either way, you are welcome …
Presentations, May 2010 and July 2012, on Queueing Read more »