Morning Coffee
What I particularly like is the days when I’m standing in front of all the bits required to make coffee and there’s this internal dialogue: L: Okay, make coffee now.R: Wut?L: MAKE COFFEE!!R: How?L: Oh...
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My Test-Driven Design (TDD) Experiment
Photo by Helloquence on Unsplash Is a Test-Driven Design approach effective, even when working on a medium scale personal project? Yes, and here’s why. I’ve long been an advocate of Unit Testing in...
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Laravel 7, Behat, Mink, BDD, Netbeans 12, and subdomain testing!
There’s a mouthful. There’s two parts to this post. The first part is the story of how I arrived at using Behat, a tool that facilitates Behavioural Driven Design (BDD). The last part is the TL;DR...
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Recollections of Depression
I’ve got this old, slightly torn and patched 100 dollar bill up on a desk shelf where I can see it. A few months back we found it between some papers and I didn’t have the slightest recollection of...
View ArticleDocker, Explained for “Old School” Developers
Anyone writing code has probably seen a bunch of references to Docker by now. It’s like this new toy that’s all the rage, but for people like me — where picking up new things takes a crap-load more...
View ArticleUse an Ad Blocker to Improve your WordPress Dashboard UX
Easily one of the most irritating things about WordPress is the continuous attempts to up-sell in the dashboard. Here’s how to get rid of them. It’s one thing to have a gentle hint, like Updraft Plus...
View ArticleAn Argument for Complex User Interfaces
A Boeing 747 cockpit, a functional complex interface Note: This was originally published on a Joomla blog in 2013. The details are outdated, but the principles remain the same. User Experience (UX)...
View ArticleCBGOS, My Clear Bin Granular Organizing System
One of the problems with being ADD is the “If you can’t see it, it ceases to exist” phenomenon. For me, this is one reason why my desk is stacked high with piles of stuff and projects are scattered...
View ArticleADD and the Art of Putting It Away BEFORE it’s Finished
This is a discipline that I’ve only recently started to adopt. I really wish I’d come up with it earlier. I have been in the habit of leaving a project out until I finish it, in no small part because...
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