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CSS Tests and Cheatsheets
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...
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Helium CSS: JavaScript Library to test your CSS usage
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...
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New Trac Report: {37} Needs Unit Tests [UPDATED]
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...
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WordPress Outage Feedback
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...
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Test: Firefox’s new Plugin Container Process
With the latest / since Firefox 3.6.4 plugins are run in their own process. That’s great news because it will help to gain more stability. And it opens a lot of new possibilities. For example you can...
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phpRack
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:...
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PHP: Compare vs. Calculating (1/2)
This speed comparison test I’ve made is not of that much interest, but it shows somehow when / how optimization takes place. Those “performance” test are most likely not that valuable for optimizations...
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PHP: Compare vs. Calculating (2/2)
A comment by Thomas Scholz in my (that time one-parted) PHP: Compare vs. Calculating post made me to take a reprise on the comparison. He suggested to just compare to the first character to find out if...
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Coding Standards that ain’t one
Developer Quiz: What are coding standards that do not get applied? More free-time on weekends. A non maneuvering ship on the Atlantic Ocean. A present for president. Well, probably it might be any of...
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Using Assertions with (Legacy) PHP Code
While it was not much advised to use assertions (the assert PHP language construct) prior to PHP 7 due to the fact that it actually eval’ed a string’ed code, these days are gone. This is probably a...
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