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Test Driven Development tutorial

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! I’m at OSDC in Brisbane this week. Yesterday I presented my half-day tutorial on Test Driven Development, and promised I would put the slides online. Here they are.

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Technical books for Vanuatu

Vanuatu’s a bloody long way from anywhere.

It’s hard to realise how far until you come to visit, and people start asking you to bring things. “Can you buy me a pair of Tevas?” asked Dan. One of his friends who’s installing a security system asked me to pick up some [...]

CPAN and the Installability Crisis

How do you install a PHP web application?

Generally it goes like this:

Download zip file Unzip on your PC Edit a config file Upload to your web host Point your browser at install.php

How do you install a Perl web application?

Well, it depends, but a lot of them go like this:

Login to your shell account on your web host — [...]

Anatomy of a Digg

Yesterday morning I woke up to find that one of the posts on my Geek Etiquette blog had been Dugg.

Within half an hour, my site was offline.

I spent a good chunk of the day dealing with my first “digg effect”, and thought it might be interesting to write up.

Timeline

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Wiki review: DokuWiki

I’ve been looking for a simple, lightweight wiki application for my website since my recent redesign. Here’s what I wanted:

quick, no-nonsense install and configuration easily restrict editing access (me, and perhaps a small handful of friends) clean interface and pleasant markup that doesn’t make me want to scream (TWiki, I’m looking at you!) easily themeable to [...]

Open Source Developers’ Conference: Last day week (or so) to submit papers!

I just submitted my paper proposals for the Open Source Developers’ Conference, an annual event held here in Australia which brings together developers from a range of different open source communities and languages, including PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, Javascript, Mono, and I don’t even know what else. Even though I usually spend most [...]