http://www.iamcal.com/ All the links rom iamcal.com 2021-01-23T02:39:49Z http://www.iamcal.com/images/logo.gif http://www.iamcal.com/ http://www.iamcal.com/2021-01/adventures-in-code-php-unit-testing/ <p>If you want to make a PHP package available that works on versions of PHP from 5.3 to 8.0, testing is a giant pain. There are versions of phpunit that work for each, but none that works for all. Additionally, the basic class names changed at some point in the past. Getting all of this to run on Travis, including running code coverage (but only once for each build!) was a complex series of trials, but I finally figured out the correct <a href="https://github.com/iamcal/pquery/blob/main/.travis.yml">.travis.yml incantation</a>, along with a <a href="https://github.com/iamcal/pquery/blob/main/tests/init.php">magic test wrapper</a> for aliasing classes</p> 2021-01-23T02:39:49Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2018-04/idea-instructions/ <p><a href="https://idea-instructions.com">Software algorithms</a> as Ikea instruction manuals.</p> <p class="bimg"><a href="https://idea-instructions.com"><img src="/images/blog/quick-sort.png" width="600" height="424" /></a></p> 2018-04-10T23:34:38Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2013-04/doom-3-source/ <p>This <a href="http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3/index.php">review of Doom 3's source release</a> is full of tons of interesting stuff, even for non-graphics programmers. [via waferbaby]</p> 2013-04-01T22:10:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-07/javelin-js/ <p><a href="http://www.javelinjs.com/">Javelin JS</a> is full of interesting little things - always fun to find out what compormises other teams make to allow their particular development model to scale. The css classes vs sigils part makes a lot of sense.</p> 2012-07-10T20:13:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-04/2767/ <p>rev dan catt has written up a nice piece on <a href="http://revdancatt.com/2012/03/31/the-pxl-effect-with-javascript-and-canvas-and-maths/">image processing for backgrounds</a>. a really nice effect</p> 2012-04-01T02:46:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-03/2765/ <p>the <a href="http://www.computerhistory.org/highlights/macpaint/">macpaint and quickdraw source</a> is available on the computer history museum site</p> 2012-03-29T21:41:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2010-09/2551/ <p>lots of good projects coming out of node.js right now - <a href="http://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS">Uglify JS</a> is a JS minifier based on a JS AST parser and tree walker. Could do some neat things with that.</p> 2010-09-08T18:10:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2009-02/2074/ <p>learning javascript <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_syntax#Boolean">oddities</a> from wikipedia: using !! for normalization and the return from || and &amp;&amp;. nice</p> 2009-02-08T08:37:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2008-04/1594/ <p>kellan points out this interesting old TPJ article on <a href="http://perldoc.perl.org/Locale/Maketext/TPJ13.html">problems</a> with localization and gettext. the solution isn't really any good, but the problem is real</p> 2008-04-04T19:15:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2007-11/1458/ <p>a <a href="http://code.iamcal.com/php/rfc822/">new version</a> of the php rfc (2)822 parser is now out, fixing a nasty bug that allowed extra periods almost anywhere in the address. oops</p> 2007-11-28T22:52:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/)