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RedisGraph is now in maintenance mode As of July 5th, 2023 RedisGraph is no longer under active development.

Slow running tests are a bug - they stop you from doing as much as you can with your code, & its quality.

In early 2016, I suggested an addition to the SncRedis-bundle.

A recent post showed how to setup Code Tombstones - but there are other , even more insidious pieces of code in a project.

While Twitter can be really annoying, sometimes it can help to promote some wonderfully simple ideas.

Version 0.9 of scheb/tombstone autoloads a file with a tombstone() function.

One of the advantages of a side-project is that you can be a little extra passionate about getting things just right.

Having just watched Sebastian Bergmann's "The State of PHPUnit" presentation from Fosdem 2015, I was inspired to install and test a project of mine with the latest stable PHPUnit - v4.7.

It's been one of those quiet spots around here for a while, so here's the catch-up on what has been happening while I was not posting.

Recruiters: Here's the rules.

If you aren't taking hiring seriously - other people can, and do hire the people you need.

A quick fun post for those of you with an Amazon Kindle - some instructions on how to a) jailbreak your reader (trivially easy), and then b) put your own wallpapers on there, so you get a more interesting 'screensaver'.

I was out last night at the The Big Xmas [bash] #, near Silicon Roundabout.

Capistrano, makes deployment of code easy.

I've been pretty busy in the last couple of years, first at Binweevils and in 2011, PeerIndex - hence the utter lack of posts, but as the note on my personal CV site says, I'm taking some time off between looking for my next role.

I've previously shown you why you may want to put some tasks through a queuing system, what sort of jobs you could define, plus how to keep a worker process running for as long as you would like (but still be mindful of problems that happen).

I'm taking a slight diversion now, to show you how the main worker processor runs.

The use of Beanstalkd as a queueing system What is an asynchronous queue The classic wikipedia quote (Message queue) In computer science, message queues and mailboxes are software-engineering components used for interprocess communication, or for inter-th…

Phew.

Just a quick note on what is going to be posted in the next few weeks – I've got a few significant pieces in mind for various topics – including: Doing the work elsewhere – asynchronous queues This is going to be a series of articles – and to support it,…

Back at the PHP London Conference at the end of February, iBuildings was offering a little test, with prize for people that could do well answering the sort of questions that are on the ZCE exam.

Well go figure.

see my previous post on the topic, #1.

When you have a library, like PEAR or Zend Framework – or even just the whole PHP language library – it’s absolutely vital you know what it can do.

As I mentioned in my second post, ZCE prep – and dumb tests - about open book tests (like Brainbench), having a copy of all the relevant documentation can be incredibly useful, if only from a speed issue.

Well, I've just completed the PHP Arch 'Vulcan' practice test – the first of up to five such practice tests I've purchased.

A more recent tool to use I'd suggest using phpcsfixer with one of the default coding standards - PSR-12/PER-Coding-style or @Symfony.

This week I'm going to take the first of my PHPArch.com's ZCE prep test – then I'll read the book and see they they expect me to know.

I've read http://www.svn-checkout.co.uk/2008/01/19/how-to-release-new-versions-of-websites/ via http://www.lornajane.net/posts/2008/SVN-Deployment-and-a-New-Site and while I consider revision control an essential tool (a few years ago, my job was the only…