Saturday, 25 March 2023

PHP / Symfony: working through "Symfony: The Fast Track", part 1: preparation and pre-requisites (and not actually any Symfony!)

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G'day: This new PHP app we're shifting in at work is gonna be running Symfony. The other bods on the dev team have been working th...
Friday, 24 March 2023

CFML / TestBox: spying on a method without mocking it

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G'day: Whilst looking for something else, I came across a ticket in TestBox's Jira system the other day that I had voted for a whi...
Friday, 17 March 2023

FAO ColdFusion users: you need to address a critical vuln in your system

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G'day: Just in case you happen to read this blog, but not Charlie Arehart's one, pls go over to his blog and read his article &quo...
Saturday, 11 March 2023

PHP / PHPUnit / TDD: unit testing abstract classes. Or not.

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G'day: One of my colleagues at work asked me about this, but it's a good topic to think about, so am gonna write about it here. ...
Friday, 10 March 2023

CFML: ColdFusion 2023 is in public beta now

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G'day: As posted in the CFML Slack channel by Adobe ColdFusion star, Mark Takata, CF2023 is in public beta now. One can sign up for it...
Friday, 3 March 2023

TIL: something new about regex processing that made me feel dumb

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G'day: I like to think I'm reasonably confident with my regex usage, indeed have in the past written at length on regex implementa...
Sunday, 19 February 2023

PHP: looking at spatie/async some more

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G'day: I'm getting back to this spatie/async library today (see " PHP: looking at spatie/async " for the first part of ...