At the 2009 Barcamp Leeds I attended a talk by Neil Crosby where he talked about automated testing, and about how he felt there was a gap in everything that people were testing. Everyone has unit tests, and people are doing full stack testing too, but no-one (so he feels) does XHTML/CSS/JS validation as part of their automated test suite. ...

So I write this blog using Markdown because I'm a human and writing stuff <strong>with</strong> tags is just WRONG. Thankfully, Gruber solved this problem by writing markdown.

Just a few examples of the same test written in a few languages. Its testing setting the date on an object that is created in the tests' setup method already. These fall under the unit testing, rather than full-stack testing.

To search your php.ini file quickly and easily with the option to use regular expressions, I tend to drop back to the cli. The reason for this is I can easily parse the output of phpinfo() with grep, and can do various things with the output, could even pass it to a script if I really wanted to.

So mother (who can't program) just posed me the question