Comments for Ben Longden

Comment on So you think TDD isn’t worth the cost? by blongden

blongden — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:13:16 +0000

Nice write up on Quora of why estimating goes horribly wrong – http://www.quora.com/Why-are-software-development-task-estimations-regularly-off-by-a-factor-of-2-3/answer/Michael-Wolfe?srid=kw

Comment on Magento Enterprise PageCache by blongden

blongden — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:44:39 +0000

Prior to 1.11 there was only config/global/cache in local.xml that was used for all of the caching. In 1.11 the PageCache module looks for configuration in config/global/full_page_cache – if this doesn’t exist it (silently) reverts back to the default file based caching and writes files out to var/full_page_cache/

The structure of the full_page_cache node in the xml structure is exactly the same as that of cache – so you can basically just duplicate the block and it should work.

Comment on Magento Enterprise PageCache by Alexander Turiak

Alexander Turiak — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:54:04 +0000

Could please you explain the local.xml configuration in more detail as to what was changed in EE 1.11?

Thanks for the interesting article

Comment on PHP on Azure by Ben Longden blogs: PHP on Azure

Ben Longden blogs: PHP on Azure — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:08:18 +0000

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Comment on PHP on Azure by Jas Sandhu

Jas Sandhu — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:29:33 +0000

Hi Ben, if you need a fast way to get this all configured and installed, try out this tutorial, it should download php, windows azure sdk, all the propoer IIS settings necessary etc.

http://azurephp.interoperabilitybridges.com/articles/getting-the-windows-azure-pre-requisites-via-the-microsoft-web-platform-installer-30

Let us know how it works out for you!

Comment on Zend 5.3 certification by Olivier

Olivier — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:13:43 +0000

Well done!

Comment on ORM ORLY? by blongden

blongden — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:31:32 +0000

Yeah I find it quite an interesting problem – I think active record is what I am looking for – though the Doctrine 2 stuff sounds good. If nothing else, writing this has made me think about it a bit more

Comment on ORM ORLY? by Juozas

Juozas — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:12:54 +0000

It’s just how ActiveRecord works

Doctrine 2.0 (http://www.slideshare.net/jwage/doctrine-2-enterprise-persistence-layer-for-php) will have a completely different approach – model’s will be just classes and data will be inserted/saved/deleted using a different object (entityMapper I think, http://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/dataMapper.html).

There are quite a few options available, most of them are here: http://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/.

I’m very much looking forward to the new version of Doctrine, because after I tried implementing a Row Data Gateway, I realized that I was spending way to much time on implementation (testing, fixing, extending etc.) and switched to Doctrine because I needed something ready to use.

Comment on Unit testing protected/private methods in a class by Unit Testing – private methods. « OwZone

Unit Testing – private methods. « OwZone — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:39:58 +0000

[...] 2, 2009 by owzone I read an interesting post from an ex-colleagues blog recently around the subject of unit testing private methods when testing object oriented code. I [...]

Comment on Unit testing protected/private methods in a class by Owain

Owain — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:20:09 +0000

I would normally say that if you think that a private method requires it’s own unit test then this is a good pointer towards the need to refactor the class – usually pushing the functionality of the private method into it’s own collaborating class.

However that is easier said that done when it comes to working with legacy code. In that situation I would probablly refactor the method from private to protected and create tests in the correct package hierarchy (java specific I realise).

I suppose the answer depends on how pragmatic you’re willing to be (and how much code is greenfield development).