DBDeploy with MySQL

I started playing with dbdeploy on one of my php projects today because I’ve seen it used with success on another project I’m working on. The biggest differences in the projects are that one uses Postgres and the other uses MySQL. Converting all my sql scripts for table creation went just fine and they ran [...]

Moving Pains From .NET to PHP

I know I haven’t blogged in a while, but my friend Chris Weldon has spurred me into action with a post of his titled Flexible and Pragmatic Automated PHP Development. As I read this I found myself identifying with a lot of his problems. Chris started out as a PHP developer and recently trained and [...]

PHPUnit and Project Automation Files

Well, for everyone who showed up, thank you very much. I enjoyed presenting, and I’m sorry I went a little long. I’ll work on that. Anywhere, here are the files you need to recreate this. Remember that to run this you must have XDebug installed, and the filter PECL module.

Powerpoint file – Not very useful! [...]

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 [...]