I’m pleased to announce I’m speaking at DPC12 this year. I’m giving a tutorial on Thursday 7th June: “Acceptence and Integration Testing With Behat”.
Here is the abstract:
Behat is a behaviour driven development framework for PHP. It can be used to write integration and acceptance tests in a language that non developers can understand. In addition [...]
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February 24, 2012
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Speaking at DPC12
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October 22, 2011
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PHP Barcelona (PHPBC11) – Acceptance & Integration Testing With Behat
By admin in UncategorizedNext weekend is the fourth edition of PHP Barcelona. I’m giving a two hour workshop on Acceptance & Integration Testing with Behat.
Behat is a relatively new testing tool and is centred round the Behavioural Driven Development methodology.
The workshop will consist of an introduction followed by a number of practical exercises. By the end [...]
May 15, 2011
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Offloading Libraries To Azure Blob Storage: Initial Experiments
By admin in PHP Azure, UncategorizedIn a previous post I’ve mentioned one of the big pain points on Azure for PHP developers is that it’s necessary to upload the frameworks or libraries used in an application each time you push to Azure.
It was suggested that one way in which to get round this is to move your libraries to Azure blob [...]
Tags: #phpazurecontest, PHP, PHPOnWindows
March 26, 2010
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Building Your Own MVC Framework
By admin in UncategorizedI’ve heard from so may people that one way to truly boost your PHP programming skills is to design and build your own framework. Then, throw it away! That’s the important bit, after building it you must throw it away and use a well maintained peer reviewed Framework (for example Zend Framework, Symphony or Agavi).
Today [...]
February 1, 2010
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PHP Benelux 2010 Round Up
By admin in UncategorizedI have finally arrived home after the PHP Benelux Conference in Antwerp. It was an excellent conference.
There were some truly excellent sessions at the conference, good mix of technical presentations and more abstract sessions on emerging technologies and management.
I arrived in Antwerp on Friday with Roan Merewood (who’s talk I unfortunately did not manage [...]
February 1, 2010
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Video Blog: Day +1 #phpbnl10
By admin in UncategorizedMy video blog round up of PHP Benelux 2010. Great conference!
PHP Benelux Day +1 from Ben Waine on Vimeo.
Ben
February 1, 2010
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Video Blog: Day – 1 #phpbnl10
By admin in UncategorizedFirst video blog from the PHP Benelux. I must invest in better video recording equipment.
PHP Benelux Day -1 from Ben Waine on Vimeo.
Ben
January 21, 2010
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Zend Certifcation Training
By admin in UncategorizedIn about three weeks time I’m looking forward to taking part in some Zend Certification training at Leeds NTI (funded by the nice folks at twentysix).
After working with PHP for nearly two years I’m excited to be have been given the oportunity to gain the coveted title Zend Certified Engineer.
After doing some of the practise [...]