Upcoming Presentation on PHP Unit Testing and Project Automation

I will be giving a presentation on PHP Unit testing on Thursday for the BCS PHP Users Group. I’m fairly new to the new PHP world (object oriented, well designed PHP apps), but my pursuit of pragmatic programming skills has led me to bring a lot of my .NET experience to the table as well. I’m going to be covering a broad range of topics and hopefully bring the audience into the mix as well.

My topics include PHP Unit testing with PHPUnit, project automation with Ant, and automated documentation generation using PhpDocumentor. I’m also going to introduce Php CodeSniffer for styling.

These topics, while being shown in a PHP environment, carry easily to other languages. In fact, projects such as Django incorportated a lot of the ideas I’m going to present directly into their programming environment. They even go a bit further and automate database synchronization and access.

My point for this blog post is this: good programming practices are not rooted in a specific language or methodology. They transcend language and become instilled as best practices for any project. And, I hope to see you there for the PHP presentation, because I’m really hoping to raise the bar for programmers in the area.