Well, last workday of this week turned out nice. I’ve been working with LoadImpact.com for a few months, providing text material for their blog. Mostly hands on technical stuff about load testing, how their tool can be used, and fun things you can find out with a good Load Testing tool at hand. But this… Continue reading Rackspace and load test automation
WordPress file permissions
In order for WordPress to be able to install a plugin and plugins or themes automatically there are a number of conditions that have to be met. If all those conditions aren’t met, one-click installations or upgrades won’t happen, instead, whenever you try to upgrade, WordPress will show you the FTP credentials input form. If… Continue reading WordPress file permissions
Gmail and Google Apps mail migration
I’ve been a long time Google Apps user, I think it’s a perfect solution for a smaller company like mine. In fact, it’s a perfect solution for bigger companies as well. Right now, I’m working with a client that wants to consolidate 10 individual Google Apps domains into one single account that handles all the… Continue reading Gmail and Google Apps mail migration
Load testing tools vs monitoring tools
Seems all writing I have time for these days is for others. Anyway, latest post on the LoadImpact blog is published. Go read.
Node.js scalability and tech writers
I’ve just published a text on the LoadImpact blog. This time I write a little bit about the findings I made when trying to put a little heavier load on a very simple Node.js, turns out that Node.js is not a silver bullet after all. Who would have guessed. If you need content for your… Continue reading Node.js scalability and tech writers
LoadImpact
I’ve just started blogging as a guest writer at LoadImpact.com. If you’re not already familiar with LoadImpact, go check them out. They provide the word leading load test as cloud service solution and is free to try out. Today my first post was published about the difference between Node.js and PHP as server side languages/environments. So,… Continue reading LoadImpact
Debugging your phpunit test cases in CodeIgniter
I don’t know why it feels ironic, but it does. Sometimes I need to debug my phpunit test cases and it wasn’t very very self explanatory to understand how to set it up . The solution however, is quite easy. I’ve previously written about how to enable the php debugger xdebug from a command line… Continue reading Debugging your phpunit test cases in CodeIgniter
Using CodeIgniter migrations with PHPUnit
Even some of the CodeIgniter developers are not especially happy about how Migrations are implemented in the current version. Never the less, if you have a CodeIgniter 2.x code base that you want to write unit tests for, you may want to use them. In a PHPUnit test class, you can use setUp() and tearDown()… Continue reading Using CodeIgniter migrations with PHPUnit
Debug PHP-cli scripts with Xdebug and Sublime Text 2
In my previous post, I explained how I’ve set up debugging PHP scripts with Xdebug and Sublime Text 2 in a web based environment. In this part, I’ll outline how I debug PHP command line scripts. If you want to follow this guide, make sure you have everything setup as explained in the previous post.… Continue reading Debug PHP-cli scripts with Xdebug and Sublime Text 2
CodeIgniter for PHP CodeSniffer gets better
Just a quick note, my PHP CodeSniffer standard for CodeIgniter improves gradually, since I originally mentioned it a month ago, the following improvements have been made to the repo: Improved indentation checks in switch statements, works with tabs now Correct file and class naming when creating libraries (CodeIgniter expects capitalized file names for libraries) Support… Continue reading CodeIgniter for PHP CodeSniffer gets better