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05.12. Doctrine 2
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Object-relational mapping (ORM) frameworks have been around for several years now and for some people, ORM is already outdated by now. As we have seen with other technologies and concepts before, PHP is not exactly what we call an early adopter among the programming languages. Thus it took some time for ORM to grow up…
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03.12. Setting up an own QA Environment for Javascript
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Nearly every PHP project comes up with a great set of tools to assure the quality of source code; unit tests are a no longer a „nice to have“ feature, they are common components in new projects. While unit tests help you to provide solid interfaces and proof the functionality of a certain method, there…
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Introducing Gigger, a Realtime Javascript Monitoring Framework
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Go to Live Demo >>> Monitoring your web application is essential for professional maintenance and development. Especially if you have a high load on your website and you want to keep the current users on your site, you definitely should stay alert for problems and be able to react fast in case of problems.…
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JavaScript Pitfalls for PHP-Developers
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A couple of years ago, PHP developers only had to have strong knowledge in the language itself and experience in some PHP frameworks and libraries, additionally skills in MySQL were expected. If we take a look at our current job advertisement, these knowledge is still important, but also skills in JavaScript are asked and strongly…
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Motivation in Software Development
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Working with software developers is often described as "herding cats", because they got their own mind. I actually love how this video explains the reasons, and why this is basically an advantage.
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Silence of the LAMPs
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in PHP(based on a true story) A well-known but discouraged operator in PHP is the silence operator @, that supresses any output, that a particular command may yield. Read on to find out how you should not use it.
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Meistgenutze Applikation im Intranet != Kantine
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in BusinessEs sollte eigentlich nicht überraschen, dass wohl am häufigsten im Intranet auf den Speiseplan (wenn vorhanden) geklickt wird – vornehmlich zwischen 10:30 – 11h. Bei einem Kundenbesuch vor 2 Wochen sah ich mit Begeisterung, dass die Ajax basierte Mitarbeitersuche sehr intensiv vom Frontdesk benutzt wurde. Bei jedem Anruf, der vom Frontdesk angenommen wurde, konnte durch…
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Is MySQL-partitioning useful for very big real-life-problems?
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in PHPSome months ago I helped out in another project in which they had some performance problems. They had a very big table and the index of the table was bigger than the table itself. As every change in the table causes MySQL to recalculate/reload the index, this can take some seconds for such big tables.…
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YAML – Yet Another Multicolumn Layout
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What is YAML? YAML is a framework to develop flexible layouts based on (X)HTML and CSS. In my opinion the best features of YAML are that it is flexible and easy accessible and not to forget that it is compatible with many browsers. Furthermore, it gives you maximal freedom concerning design. You can work with…