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on Sep. 5, 2018
One of the hot discussion topics atm is around the question: who pays a speaker’s costs? And who should pay? I think there’s a couple of different ways to look at this: from an economic point of view, and then separately from a moral point of view. The Economic Arguments Writing and presenting a ta…
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on Jul. 9, 2016
tldr; I’ve been experimenting with the PHP interpreter, and I made a thing … JSON is by far the most common API request format. I design, build, and fix API servers for a living. I write a lot of API tests as a result. I often find myself wishing that I could write JSON directly in PHP code like th…
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on Feb. 22, 2016
Last week, I gave a talk at PHP Cambridge on how to go about setting up and running a positive code review. A huge thanks to Jo for inviting me to speak on this. We had a great evening looking at the underlying causes of negative code reviews, and what you can tackle to address them. I hope you fin…
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on Feb. 22, 2016
Earlier this month, I gave a talk at the PHP Surrey user group over in Guildford, looking at how to design a functional test.
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on Jan. 6, 2016
Over the last four weeks, I’ve been plagued by numerous PHP segfault problems – multiple versions of PHP, on different operating systems, on different hardware, and running completely different codebases. Yesterday, I ran into a segfault that I couldn’t work around. It is happening with Apache + mo…
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on Nov. 3, 2015
Last week, it was my pleasure to present a new talk to the PHP Oxford user group, called “Why We Test”. A huge thanks to Oliver for inviting, and to everyone who came along.