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16 Nov 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Having previously searched for (and found) a number of videos on YouTube on the topic of unit testing with XUnit and Moq, I didn't find anything satisfactory until today. However, what I did find was Tim Corey's introductory videos. They are rather l...
5 Oct 2022 9 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark
Who do you think you are, Jon Skeet? I know for a fact that he writes comments. I'm willing to bet he does unit testing, too. "If builders built buildings the way software developers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would de...
21 Sep 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
One of the problems that I have with a lot of books that purport to teach any given programming language is that they also try to teach programming concepts in the process. Once I've learned them the first time, I've learned them. I don't need to hav...
20 Sep 2022 1 minute read 4 comments Great White Snark
Today (2022-09-20) is day #2 of my new job. There's not really much to report. So far, I've been facing technical issues that have prevented me from getting to grips with the code base and the project on which I'm supposed to be working/extending. Fi...
15 Sep 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
PHP is a very weird language, particularly with all its callback functions, reflection and magic method features. It tends toward stringly-typed code, making JavaScript look sensible and straight-forward. (It really isn't.) What's the point of imple...
11 Sep 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
One of the two companies that gave me a job interview on Friday wants to give me a month's probationary employment, to see if I'd be a good fit for the job and the company environment. I haven't even done a technical assessment yet. For nearly two ye...
10 Sep 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
This post is part two of many. It picks up where Part 1 left off. Operands and Operators (Continued) PHP 8 has keyword operators that provide alternatives for &&, || and ^: and, or and xor. However, the keywords have lower operator precedence than t...
4 Sep 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Yesterday, I encountered a possible candidate for the "Daily Worse than Failure (WTF)": This URL: https://www.mappen.com/geoblocked.html#=tytutyutr_IO (or something equivalent) So you (the developer of the page in question) don't know how URIs work a...
2 Sep 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
I originally intended to write this in three parts (beginner, intermediate and advanced). However, my notes are more extensive than I realised that they would be, so that's not going to happen. There will be substantially more than three parts, so as...
31 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
It has been a long time (nearly a decade) since I learned PHP and used it on a near-daily basis. Back then, it was version 5. At the time I found a job with a different company, PHP 7 was on the horizon. I vowed to learn it at some point, but never d...
