Tag Archives: Quality Control

phptags – tidies up tags in PHP scripts and guards whitespace

Posted on 2 Jan 2012 by hakre

Just stumbled over another PHP related tool today, which I think is worth the link: phptags is a simple commandline tool to tidy up open and close tags in PHP scripts. It can rewrite close tags, and strip leading or … Continue reading →

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phpRack

Posted on 30 Jun 2010 by hakre

phpRack is a light framework for automation of integration tests. By integration tests software module run in the production environment to validate configuration and applications setup. Read On: phpRack Documentation

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HTTP/HTML: Missing HTTP-Body/HTML on Redirect

Posted on 16 Jun 2010 by hakre

This bothers me often: unfriendly redirects.

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WordPress Outage Feedback

Posted on 14 Jun 2010 by hakre

WP.COM was down the second time this year at the end of last week. Well that’s certainly not a news any longer and good so, the dust of buzz has lowered a bit. What’s interesting about the outage for me … Continue reading →

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Tools: WebSVN

Posted on 19 May 2010 by hakre

I ran over this by need and I must say in the end I’m pretty confident with: WebSVN is a PHP script/webapp that publishes one or multiple Subversion-Repositories as HTML on the fly.

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New Trac Report: {37} Needs Unit Tests [UPDATED]

Posted on 16 May 2010 by hakre

For the upcomming 3.0 Release there are still some tickets open, but it looks like this is getting closer to release. I just stumbled over a new report, that is listing all with the tag needs-unit-tests. The funny thing about … Continue reading →

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Living With Legacy Code by Rowan Merewood

Posted on 26 Apr 2010 by hakre

Rowan Merewood uploaded slides from his PHP Benelux ‘10 Presentation “Living With Legacy Code”. Legacy code is a hard to handle topic, that’s why normally we as developers would like to walk around that.

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PHP Mess Detector

Posted on 12 Apr 2010 by hakre

Another tool for maintaining and control PHP sourcecode is PHPMD – PHP Mess Detector. A spin-off project of PHP Depend: What PHPMD does is: It takes a given PHP source code base and look for several potential problems within that … Continue reading →

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PHP Code Sniffer, Eclipse and WordPress

Posted on 6 Mar 2010 by hakre

Or: Steady progress on WordPress and it’s coding standards and getting things working together Have I said previously that I personally really hate the WordPress coding standard? All these spaces in there. For some coders apparently it makes it easier … Continue reading →

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Docblock comments and more in code guidelines / standards

Posted on 26 Feb 2010 by hakre

In the recent WordPress Coding Standard discussion it was clear that mutliple scenarios are not handeled. While doing more and more WP developmet these days, the list of stuff grows so it’s good to collect and to write them down. … Continue reading →

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PHP Open Basedir degrades Security (Bonus)

Posted on 20 Feb 2010 by hakre

Some hosters are using the open_basedir restrictions because they think this makes hosting somewhat more secure. Well normally it is not because a hoster in need to enable it often shows that the system is not properly configured in respect … Continue reading →

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CSS Selector Code Smell

Posted on 19 Feb 2010 by hakre

3-2-1: Grab your QC environment and get ready for CSS today because it just does not makes sense to write a CSS Selector like these: Example 1: A bogus selector. Example 2: Can make sense The first example is pretty … Continue reading →

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My site’s been hacked – now what?

Posted on 11 Feb 2010 by hakre

Just a quickie to link to Google Webmaster Central: My site’s been hacked – now what? which provides some googly tips on how to handle such a situation.

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Relative URL (#2) HTML/ XHTML Code Smell

Posted on 24 Jan 2010 by hakre

Just yesterday I had a post about the dot in the beginning of relative URLs. Today I have a small addition to that: Two dot path segments in an URL/URI. It’s some more detailed thing related to the history and … Continue reading →

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Relative URL HTML/ XHTML Code Smell

Posted on 23 Jan 2010 by hakre

Another one for the HTML/ XHTML Code Smells: If you’re using realtive URLs inside your documents (which is pretty valid and can save you some bandwidth as well as it can save some hassles for mirroring a website) you should … Continue reading →

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Helium CSS: JavaScript Library to test your CSS usage

Posted on 21 Jan 2010 by hakre

All those CSS lines still in use? I’m asking this to myself from time to time when dealing with older sites that evolved over the years. Going through by hand and then? No way Helium CSS to the rescue!. It … Continue reading →

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CSS Tests and Cheatsheets

Posted on 20 Jan 2010 by hakre

Are you sure that selector is working? Better target your audience of browsers by checking some CSS-Tests first. I compiled a little list as of a start: Cheat Sheet / Overview CSS contents and browser compatibility – Quirksmode compatibility tables. … Continue reading →

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Script and Style HTML/ XHTML Code Smells

Posted on 19 Jan 2010 by hakre

Remember the time? Grabbing the copy of the HTML 2 RFC, reading through within the afternoon and you started to understand where this all might lead to after some time.  Seeing 3.2, 4.1 and XHTML 1.0 passing this finally ended up … Continue reading →

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WordPress Coding Standards – How to go on?

Posted on 18 Jan 2010 by hakre

I would love to see that we make our developer’s lives easier while doing WordPress. One step to do so is to offer a clear coding styleguide and to apply it on the codebase. Because for most of the code … Continue reading →

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Bugrate

Posted on 16 Jan 2010 by hakre

You know the feeling? You join the dev-channel, grab yourself a ticket in trac and start to reproduce. And while reproduceable you analyze what’s the root of the bug.  But while digging through core-code you stumble over multiple areas you think … Continue reading →

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