sebastian bergmann

When Noah Sussman asked me to give a Code as Craft Technology Talk last week when I was consulting for Etsy I immediately said yes.

However, I was a bit surprised when the talk was announced under the title "An Evening with Sebastian Bergmann".

When I read that title the first time, it was just minutes after Arne, Stefan and I had talked about one of our favourite scenes from "A Knight's Tale":

In July 2010 I already blogged about the fact that HipHop for PHP, the source code transformer that turns PHP code into C++ code that can then be compiled with g++, can also be used for static code analysis to find problems in PHP source code.

Kurt Payne has a new post to his blog showing how you can unit test your process forking in your PHP application (pcntl).

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:

• Henri Bergius' Blog: PHP: Finally getting an ecosystem?
• Mike Willbanks' Blog: Android C2DM with PHP and Zend Framework
• Ruslan Yakushev's Blog: How to install PHP PEAR and phploc on Windows
• Label Media Blog: Design Patterns in PHP - Factory method
• SimasToleikis' Blog: New

Philip Norton has posted his extensive summary of his experience at this year's PHP North West conference in Manchester.

He details each of the sessions he attended and various other conference-related activities including:

Michelangelo van Dam continues his "Quality Assurance in PHP projects" series in his latest post, the first of a few, about using PHPUnit to test your application.

Of all tools available for improving quality assurance, there's one tool that is the core tool you have to master: PHPUnit.

PHPUnit is a complete testing framework crafted by Sebastian Bergmann (@s_bergmann), who ported existing xUnit frameworks to PHP.

Fall season is traditionally conference season in the PHP community. This October, you will have the chance to catch all three partners of thePHP.cc -- Sebastian Bergmann, Arne Blankerts, and Stefan Priebsch -- at the following events:

Sebastian Bergmann has a new post to his blog talking about some of the future plans for better code coverage metrics for PHP applications (not just the statistics that we have now as generated from PHPUnit runs combined with Code_Coverage PEAR package and Xdebug).

Till Klampaeckel has a new post to his blog today looking at the method he's found (through some help from others) to be able to mock out protected methods in his unit tests.