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I am working on an iOS app for a product that I have been building. Throughout the process I have come up against some hurdles and have sought to resolve them using the (fantastic) knowledge base that is Stack Overflow. Moreso than when writing code for any other platform I

Over the past month I have been developing an iOS app for one of the websites that I own and operate. I wanted to share a few considerations that I encountered when investigating testing and iOS. Objective C has been around and developing as a language for an extremely long

I previously wrote about the internals of Mocha. The reason that I was intrigued by the inner workings of Mocha was because I was in the process of building a functional testing tool - Phantom Mochachino. Phantom Mochachino is an extension of Mocha which works with the PhantomJS headless web

In an attempt to extend the functionality of Mocha for a specific use case I was required to look into its source code. I wanted to write the flow down so it was clearer to myself. Maybe someone else will find this useful. Mocha Firstly you have the Mocha '

I utilize PHPUnit for my backend testing and have noticed a number of things whilst using it. I have outlined these below - hopefully they will help someone. DBUnit, composite datasets and foreign keys There is a bug in the PHPUnit source code which means that composite datasets are truncated

I have been playing around with a number of open source projects pertaining to testing different aspects of a web based application. Over the past few days i have been playing with PhantomJS, Mocha, and Chai. What is PhantomJS? PhantomJS is a full stack headless web browser based on Webkit.

Over the past few days i have been investigating Facebook's Jest - a javascript unit testing framework. I have found a number of issues with it for my use case. My main issue is as to what it is actually useful for. The documentation outlines how to test

Intro For most entities building a website, search is not really a consideration. Consideration in the sense that for your search functionality you intend to simply query your database backend for the results you need.. like everyone does.. right? Certainly for most use cases, the power of modern database backends

reactJS from the guys at Facebook is a really nice javascript UI framework. It powers the Facebook UI which in my opinion looks good, is responsive, and is easy to use. One thing that concerns me with javascript is Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - it is great to have a

Installing Ghost on an Ubuntu server is a relatively simple and painless process. I have done it many times before and us such I was somewhat bemused as to why I was getting a 500 error when accessing my domain. SQLITE_CANTOPEN unable to open database file I did some

Having worked in Cayman for two months it seemed reasonable to post an update. Working with a team is an awesome - the guys I work with are extremely good at what they do and I have learnt a lot. I have enjoyed dropping my near sighted attitude towards my

I was invited out to Grand Cayman for the last month by a company working in the domain name industry. I had a look around the island, met the team, and enjoyed the lifestyle. I consider myself extremely fortunate to have been offered a place on their team, and as