At my current job at devex and my previous job at Splendia we have a tradition of everyone sending an email with interesting links to the internal mailing list on every Friday. The idea is to spread the knowledge and give everyone something to read for the weekend, when there is plenty of time (ha!). I am going to start posting some of these here too, because I think they are good and also because I have nothing else to write about at the moment. ...
I have confess that this was shorter than I would have thought or wished for, but Thursday is my last day at Splendia. Splendia is a very different company from my previous employer Softonic. While Softonic has all the perks and advantages of a big successful company with a large development team. Splendia is much smaller and when I arrived the whole team had just arrived too and was confronted with a “legacy” code base. ...
Today I gave a talk at WeLovePHP, which is a quarterly talk and workshop series organized by Softonic in Barcelona. They also do one about JavaScript. I can highly recommend them if you are interested in PHP, JavaScript or related topics. I talked about the processes and tools we are using at Splendia. There are no pictures in the slides … sorry.
Last month my father Klaus Damian died much too young and rather unexpected. He was a hero to me, like every father should be. But he made it especially easy. When he retired he was the Head of the Astronauts Training Division at the EAC (European Astronaut Centre) of the ESA (European Space Agency). As far as I can remember he always worked with satellites and spacecrafts. He travelled the world to go diving with astronauts in the Caribbean, do zero gravity flights, to see rockets or spaceships take off from all continents. I always remember the map of the world he had on his wall, which had a pin for every trip and they were everywhere. ...
As hopefully most people working on software projects nowadays we are writing unit tests and do code reviews. Work-flow at Splendia As our project is a large PHP site we are using PHPUnit for unit testing and various static code checking tools (checkstyle, phpmd, pdepend, phpcpd) to verify the quality of our code. All of these are run on our integration branch, whenever a new feature is integrated. Before this can happen the code will be reviewed by other people in the team and only if there is a consensus it will be merged into the integration branch. ...