By Patkos Csaba Installing all your PHP libraries with Composer is a great way to save time. But larger projects automatically tested and run at each commit to your software version control (SVC) system will take a long time to install all the required packages from the Internet. You want to run your tests as […]
By Alan Skorkin Today we’re going to look at New Relic custom dashboards. Specifically, I will show you three ways that I tend to use custom dashboards: creating an overview dashboard from existing charts creating your own charts from existing data captured by New Relic creating dashboards for your custom metrics But, before we […]
By Patkos Csaba The Single Responsibility (SRP), Open/Closed (OCP), Liskov Substitution, Interface Segregation, and Dependency Inversion. Five agile principles that should guide you every time you write code. Because both the Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP) and the Interface Segregation Principle (ISP) are quite easy to define and exemplify, in this lesson we will talk […]
By Patkos Csaba Sooner or later in your programming career you will be faced with the dilemma of validation and exception handling. This was the case with me and my team also. A couple or so years ago we reached a point when we had to take architectural actions to accommodate all the exceptional cases […]
By Umar Hansa This is a complete tutorial to using LESS with Chrome’s DevTools. If you’ve already used Sass with Chrome’s DevTools, you’ll most likely already be familiar with the concepts introduced here. The Tl;dr LESS has very recently added support for Source Maps, so this is new and exciting! DevTools mapping means you […]
By Patkos Csaba Single Responsibility (SRP), Open/Closed (OCP), Liskov’s Substitution, Interface Segregation, and Dependency Inversion. Five agile principles that should guide you every time you need to write code. Definition Solid [pullquote align=”left or right”]Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification.[/pullquote] The Open/Closed Principle, OCP in […]
By Aurelio De Rosa This article will introduce you to , a new proposed element created to try and solve the problem of serving the version of content images which better suits the device currently visiting a web page. Why Do We Need a New picture Element? Responsive Web Design (RWD) has taken web […]
By Toran Billups When I started playing around with Ember.js almost a year ago, the testability story left something to be desired. You could unit test an object without any trouble, but a unit test is only one way to get feedback when you’re building a software product. In addition to unit tests, I wanted […]
By Steven Riche HTML is the language the web is built in, and it is kind of a strange beast. Although it was originally intended as a way to easily share academic information across the Internet, it has been slowly transformed to accommodate the media-rich environment we know and love, sort of like a cherished […]
By Rey Bango I’ve written quite a bit about browser testing solutions trying to help identify techniques and tools that make cross-browser development easier. My last article on the subject covered how to use BrowserStack to test any number of browsers all from one central tool; your own browser. I was on a Windows PC […]