This article covers some of the issues I encountered trying to execute a unit test and create a coverage report using Phing. I was surprised at the number of patches and workarounds that I needed to get this to work, some being harder to track down than others.
After playing around with BlogEngine.NET for the last couple of months, I have decided to retire it and go back to WordPress. The bottom line is the software is not quite ready for Mono and Linux. There always seemed to be some minor issue to overcome whether it was installing a plugin or figuring out [...]
I started creating Cactus unit tests for a number of servlet filters in openEPRS. I didn’t get far before encountering a number of strange problems. For the life of me I could not get the cactifywar ant task to add a FilterRedirector to my project’s web.xml. I posted a number of questions to the Cactus [...]
My previous article Ruby on Rails Part 1, touched briefly on my experiences installing Ruby, Rails and RadRails. Now that I was ready to start coding, I purchased the expectional tome “Agile Web Development with Rails (Second Edition)” by Dave Thomas and others.