Project Estimation

I have the luxury of working in an office that does not do cost recovery. We do, however, still have to give our clients time estimates from time to time. It helps us plan out our release cycles and give our customers some expectations. More often than not though, our “estimations” come from clients who [...]

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. [...]

Continuous Integration with PHPUnit and Friends

Well I haven’t blogged lately and I thought I would throw something out there about my current efforts. I’ve been at work doing a lot of PHP stuff lately and I’ve been really unsatisfied with the setup I had. The code I”m working with is mostly legacy PHP 4 code, so I’m rewriting it using [...]

First AgileBCS Meeting

Today was the first meeting of the AgileBCS group. About 12 people showed up, and I knew most of them from previous community events. I have noticed that people with a passion for development are typically the first and only ones to come to meetings like this. They are looking to share their successes in [...]