In PHPDBUnit - Testing DB interaction with PHPUnit - Digital Sandwich, Mike Lively announces a port of Java’s DBUnit to PHP. I gave a short(ish) reply on the blog but after posting it I realized I wanted to expand on the topic a bit .
Let me start by quoting my reply on his […]

At our office, I thought it’d be a nice challenge to run a computer Go tournament - individuals could submit their computer Go program, and the best program’s author gets a big prize and gets to explain how he did it (sorry, only male hackers around so far). Apart from a bit of an exercise […]

Take a cucumber, some tomatos, and a capsicum from the fridge (the veggies must be cold). Go to your garden/balcony[1] and cut a nice handful of herbs (basil, thyme, coriander/cilantro and marjoran formed my catch). Cut the lot, add olive oil, balsamico, a bit of honey or sugar and some salt and pepper. Blend so […]

One of the podcasts I subscribe to is The Agile Toolkit by Bob Payne. It mostly consists of him interviewing interesting people at conferences, and invariably I pick up interesting snippets of thought and/or knowledge.
Last weeks’ podcast contains a presentation by Pollyana Pixton, Veep of the Agile Project Leadership Network. She shares some great […]

I seems that Flickr has been blocked in China. Well, let’s see whether I can manage to get the same honour. I just checked Google Analytics, and I get a decent amount of visitors from China. Always happy to keep public officials occupied, let’s see whether me posting an image from the 1989 Tiananmen […]

A colleague pointed out this article, reporting on Linus Torvalds giving a talk at some search engine shop about Git, “his” source code management system.
Always interested in something better than CVS/SVN, and a spoiled brat with the various distributed systems available under Smalltalk (like Monticello), I looked at Git back when the kernel folk […]

I never heard about StumbleUpon before, but with its addition to the eBay family, I had to try it out. I strongly advice you not to do so for reasons that will become clear very soon .
StumbleUpon is a sort of social bookmarking site - we’ve seen that with del.icio.us, digg, etcetera. However, […]

I can be long and short about this, but Google trampling privacy laws by publishing recognizable pictures of people with its new Street View feature means that my doubts about their “do no evil” PR slogan have vanished - it’s indeed just a PR slogan, not something they actually believe in and adhere to.

I’m a […]