Tag Archives: PHP

License to Queue

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Shine Technologies

A few months ago I joined an exciting project with fellow Shiner Graham Polley, who you might know from such hits as Put on your streaming shoes. This is a follow-up article, discussing the elegant way in which we solved a … Continue reading →

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Put On Your Streaming Shoes

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Shine Technologies

The Kick-Off Meeting It went something along the lines of: Client: “We have a new requirement for you..” Shiners: “Shoot..” Client: “We’d like you to come up a solution that can insert 2 million rows per hour into a database and be able to deliver real-time … Continue reading →

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Unit Testing PHP and Silex using PHPUnit

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Shine Technologies

As a newcomer to PHP I was puzzled by how to unit test controllers and services when using Silex (if you’re wondering, Silex is based on the Symfony 2 framework and draws a lot of modules from it). In this post … Continue reading →

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