Archive

In ~~2011~~2014 I gave the blog a bit of a revamp, and as such I decided to try and minimise the amount of jibberish I put on here. This archive contains a lot of posts that I'm probably ashamed of and almost definitely don't make the world a better place, but I'd feel like a bit of a fraud deleting them.

In defence of Mocking Frameworks
Thu, May 14, 2020
Importing HIBP's pwned password list in to DynamoDB
Fri, Aug 11, 2017
Using closures as PHPUnit After Hooks
Fri, Dec 23, 2016
Faster Tests in PHP: Selectively running tests
Tue, Nov 22, 2016
Faster Tests in PHP: Organising Test Suites
Wed, Nov 16, 2016
Faster Tests in PHP: Avoiding latency with Fakes
Tue, Nov 8, 2016
Service Locators have their place
Wed, Jun 1, 2016
Verifying Doubles in PHP
Wed, Apr 20, 2016
Effective tests: Creating test data with fixture factories
Wed, Nov 11, 2015
Effective tests: Setting up a database fixture
Mon, Oct 26, 2015
Scheduled Tasks with Jenkins
Thu, Jun 4, 2015
Test Data Builders
Wed, Jan 28, 2015
Object Mothers
Wed, Jan 21, 2015
Introduction to Reducing Duplication in Test Code
Wed, Jan 14, 2015
Probing Test Suite Quality with Mutation Testing
Wed, Jan 7, 2015
Designing a DSL with interfaces
Mon, Nov 3, 2014
Working towards a new Mockery TestDouble API
Thu, Oct 30, 2014
Mockery Spies
Thu, Oct 9, 2014
Silex Route Helpers for a Cleaner Architecture
Mon, Nov 26, 2012
Coding DCI in PHP
Fri, Nov 16, 2012
Silex Controllers as Services
Wed, Oct 3, 2012
How I'm doing TDD with PHP
Wed, Jun 6, 2012
Why aren't you contributing to Open Source?
Thu, Mar 8, 2012
How I'm designing a RESTful(ish) web service
Thu, Feb 16, 2012
Defending against Cache Stampedes
Fri, Jan 13, 2012
Handling Symfony2 Events Asynchronously
Fri, Dec 2, 2011
Phpmig - Simple migrations for php
Sat, Nov 5, 2011
Rambling On
Tue, Oct 25, 2011
Traits in PHP 5.4 - HelloWorld with Logging Trait
Sat, Aug 6, 2011
Copy install packages to new machine
Tue, Apr 19, 2011
Asynchronous cache priming with progress bars
Mon, Apr 4, 2011
Iterations plugin for Redmine
Mon, Feb 7, 2011
How to install gitolite on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)
Sun, Dec 5, 2010
Notes from porting ruby to php
Mon, Nov 29, 2010
ZFSnippets.com now managed by bescript.de
Tue, Jun 1, 2010
Set MySQL connection variables with mysql-proxy
Tue, Jun 1, 2010
Wanted: New home for zfsnippets.com
Mon, Apr 26, 2010
Review: Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development
Thu, Feb 11, 2010
Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development
Thu, Oct 15, 2009
Zend Framework Poster
Fri, Aug 21, 2009
Mozilla's Content Security Policy (CSP)
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
Using message queues to improve user experience
Mon, Jun 1, 2009
Redmine Issue Tracker/Project Management
Mon, Apr 20, 2009
Rev=Canonical and all that Jazz
Wed, Apr 15, 2009
Url Shortener in CodeIgniter
Fri, Apr 10, 2009
ZFSnippets.com update
Mon, Apr 6, 2009
Code Complete by Steve McConnell
Wed, Mar 25, 2009
ZFSnippets.com - Zend Framework Code Snippets
Wed, Mar 4, 2009
How protected is protected?
Wed, Feb 25, 2009
Competition: PHP Job Hunters Handbook up for grabs
Mon, Jan 5, 2009
Meeting Cost Clock
Wed, Dec 24, 2008
Landing a PHP job Part 3: Curriculum Vitae
Mon, Dec 15, 2008
Changing hosts - Slicehost.com Review
Tue, Nov 11, 2008
Going to PHPNW08
Mon, Nov 3, 2008
Programming in C and stackoverflow.com
Thu, Oct 30, 2008
Zend Framework and the Twitter API
Mon, Oct 13, 2008
PHPPositions - Genuine PHP jobs at Genuine Companies
Mon, Sep 29, 2008
Quick SVN stats one liner
Fri, Sep 26, 2008
Landing a PHP job Part 2: Soft Skills
Wed, Sep 17, 2008
Review: Deep Fried Bytes Podcast
Tue, Aug 12, 2008
Review: Gliffy.com
Mon, Aug 11, 2008
Getting the right chair
Sat, Aug 9, 2008
Zend PHP 5 Certified Engineer
Tue, Jul 15, 2008
A step in the right direction
Tue, Jul 15, 2008
Processing output with SimpleXML
Tue, Jul 8, 2008
Fat Models and the Data Access Layer
Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Software development podcasts
Tue, Jun 3, 2008
Switching server environments
Mon, May 26, 2008
Being a Lead Developer - Part 3 - The Team
Fri, May 23, 2008
Being a Lead Developer - Part 2 - Software Tools and methods
Mon, May 19, 2008
Being a Lead Developer - Part 1 - Being a mentor
Sat, May 17, 2008
Log memory usage using declare and ticks in PHP
Mon, May 12, 2008
PHP Versions in popular Linux Distributions
Thu, May 8, 2008
Framework Popularity/Favouritism/Biase ...
Mon, Apr 28, 2008
How To: Simple database migrations with Phing and DbDeploy
Mon, Apr 14, 2008
Contributing to Open Source Software
Thu, Apr 3, 2008
Linux/PHP one liner - Syntax check all files.
Tue, Mar 25, 2008
Sifr turned off
Thu, Mar 20, 2008
10 tools for Modern PHP Development
Thu, Mar 20, 2008
New site - LimoTrack.co.uk
Sun, Sep 23, 2007
Capistrano, Migrations and Which-Broadband updates
Tue, Sep 11, 2007
Getting things done
Tue, Jul 10, 2007
How To: Send SQL commands to a database in VIM
Thu, Mar 29, 2007
Related Searches, Web Pages and Videos on Adsense
Fri, Feb 23, 2007
Get paid to search the web with SlashMySearch
Fri, Feb 16, 2007
DaveWP Wordpress Theme
Tue, Feb 6, 2007
PHP Conference London 2007
Tue, Jan 23, 2007
Joined Elance.com
Mon, Jan 22, 2007
Desktop switch to Ubuntu
Tue, Dec 19, 2006
Projects in the pipeline
Fri, Dec 8, 2006
Google taking over day to day tasks...
Thu, Dec 7, 2006
New Site Launched: Pontiac Trans Am UK
Tue, Nov 21, 2006
Quick Tip: Cygwin here shortcut, Explorer here shortcut
Thu, Oct 19, 2006
New site launched for AJW ltd.
Wed, Oct 18, 2006
Congratulations to the BareNakedApp guys
Thu, Sep 7, 2006
Press Release: Broadband website launch
Wed, Sep 6, 2006
Quick bandwidth optimisation tips for Apache and PHP
Mon, Sep 4, 2006
Ruby on Rails - First Impressions
Mon, Aug 28, 2006
Beautify command line CVS output with perl
Tue, Aug 15, 2006
New domains for DaveProxy
Mon, Aug 14, 2006
Upgrade to WordPress 2.04
Thu, Aug 3, 2006
Identity Package Contest Winner
Thu, Jul 27, 2006
Brainbench PHP 5 Certification
Sat, Jul 22, 2006
Company Identity Package Contest
Sun, Jul 16, 2006
PHP5 objects assigned by reference?
Sun, Jun 18, 2006
DaveProxy 3.0
Fri, May 26, 2006
How I work
Sun, May 21, 2006
Setting up an adserver
Sat, May 13, 2006
New website - Keldy's Heroes
Tue, Apr 18, 2006
ZCE Diploma Arrives
Mon, Apr 3, 2006
Vim, CTAGS and PHP 5
Mon, Mar 13, 2006
MySQL 5 Certification
Wed, Mar 8, 2006
JBoss and Gentoo
Thu, Mar 2, 2006
Total Web Server requests - AWK one liner
Thu, Feb 23, 2006
My first XML + XSLT
Tue, Feb 21, 2006
99 Bottles of Beer - PHP 5
Mon, Feb 20, 2006
Google Adsense Account Disabled
Mon, Feb 13, 2006
UK PHP Conference
Mon, Jan 30, 2006
DaveProxy 2.0
Mon, Jan 30, 2006
New theme
Sun, Jan 22, 2006
Book Review: Essential PHP Security
Sun, Jan 22, 2006
DaveProxy
Sun, Dec 4, 2005
Bug in google?
Wed, Nov 30, 2005
Zend Certified Engineer
Mon, Nov 28, 2005
Welcome to DaveDevelopment
Mon, Nov 28, 2005
Mon, Sep 8, 2008

In defence of Mocking Frameworks

Importing HIBP's pwned password list in to DynamoDB

Using closures as PHPUnit After Hooks

Faster Tests in PHP: Selectively running tests

Faster Tests in PHP: Organising Test Suites

Faster Tests in PHP: Avoiding latency with Fakes

Service Locators have their place

Verifying Doubles in PHP

Effective tests: Creating test data with fixture factories

Effective tests: Setting up a database fixture

Scheduled Tasks with Jenkins

Test Data Builders

Object Mothers

Introduction to Reducing Duplication in Test Code

Probing Test Suite Quality with Mutation Testing

Designing a DSL with interfaces

Working towards a new Mockery TestDouble API

Mockery Spies

Silex Route Helpers for a Cleaner Architecture

Coding DCI in PHP

Silex Controllers as Services

How I'm doing TDD with PHP

Why aren't you contributing to Open Source?

How I'm designing a RESTful(ish) web service

Defending against Cache Stampedes

Handling Symfony2 Events Asynchronously

Phpmig - Simple migrations for php

Rambling On

Traits in PHP 5.4 - HelloWorld with Logging Trait

Copy install packages to new machine

Asynchronous cache priming with progress bars

Iterations plugin for Redmine

How to install gitolite on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)

Notes from porting ruby to php

ZFSnippets.com now managed by bescript.de

Set MySQL connection variables with mysql-proxy

Wanted: New home for zfsnippets.com

Review: Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development

Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development

Zend Framework Poster

Mozilla's Content Security Policy (CSP)

Using message queues to improve user experience

Redmine Issue Tracker/Project Management

Rev=Canonical and all that Jazz

Url Shortener in CodeIgniter

ZFSnippets.com update

Code Complete by Steve McConnell

ZFSnippets.com - Zend Framework Code Snippets

How protected is protected?

Competition: PHP Job Hunters Handbook up for grabs

Meeting Cost Clock

Landing a PHP job Part 3: Curriculum Vitae

Changing hosts - Slicehost.com Review

Going to PHPNW08

Programming in C and stackoverflow.com

Zend Framework and the Twitter API

PHPPositions - Genuine PHP jobs at Genuine Companies

Quick SVN stats one liner

Landing a PHP job Part 2: Soft Skills

Review: Deep Fried Bytes Podcast

Review: Gliffy.com

Getting the right chair

Zend PHP 5 Certified Engineer

A step in the right direction

Processing output with SimpleXML

Fat Models and the Data Access Layer

Software development podcasts

Switching server environments

Being a Lead Developer - Part 3 - The Team

Being a Lead Developer - Part 2 - Software Tools and methods

Being a Lead Developer - Part 1 - Being a mentor

Log memory usage using declare and ticks in PHP

PHP Versions in popular Linux Distributions

Framework Popularity/Favouritism/Biase ...

How To: Simple database migrations with Phing and DbDeploy

Contributing to Open Source Software

Linux/PHP one liner - Syntax check all files.

Sifr turned off

10 tools for Modern PHP Development

New site - LimoTrack.co.uk