Windmill is a web testing tool designed to let you painlessly automate and debug your web application.
Originating at the Open Source Applications Foundation Windmill was built to help QA keep up with the rapid release cycles of the Chandler Server Web UI (Cosmo) project. As the Cosmo client is heavy in JavaScript and AJAX functionality, Windmill makes the communication between the service and the client code a priority.
Open-source project management tool, intended to assist the collaborative aspect of work carried out by agile software development teams.
Free / Open-source (MIT License) Full Development Life-cycle Comprehensive Adminstration Multiple projects within one instance Powerful Add-on Interface REST-API (Example) & RSS Support (Example)
Stalkr is a data persistence library. Stalkr enables your PHP web application to interact with database servers in a fully object-oriented pattern. No more messy SQL, no more nasty injection attacks!
This type of library is usually called an object-relational mapper, or ORM for short. However, Stalkr is different from your typical ORM. In addition to the usual “mapping” between PHP objects and SQL rows, Stalkr also boasts a wealth of scalability-friendly features, such as:
Exclusive features (of sorts: see the Yet Another ORM!? wiki page for more information)
Automatic and transparent integration with Memcached (drivers included!) Support for key-value stores, with built-in consistent hashing and redundancy (now with Redis support!) Seamless utilization of multiple clusters of potentially different database software Unique access control mechanism for additional security
Nous avons déjà compris le fonctionnement de PHPUnit et le principe des tests en développement PHP, au travers de l'article Développement piloté par les tests avec PHPUnit. Nous allons à présent montrer les fonctionnalités avancées de PHPUnit notamment concernant les patterns de tests, Mock, Stub, Double, Spy ; nous verrons comment les mettre en place au travers d'un exemple simple et concret, et en quoi ces techniques peuvent rapidement devenir addictives. Pour cela, il conviendra de rappeler les grands principes du développement logiciel orienté objet : SOLID. Nous parlerons ensuite d'autres fonctionnalités PHPUnit propres au contexte des tests : sauvegarde des variables globales, sauvegarde du contexte statique, isolation des tests dans des processus distincts...
mysql-snmp is a Net-SNMP Perl subagent that connects to a MySQL server and reports its statistics through SNMP. Additionally this project contains material to graph MySQL variables/counters in OpenNMS.
The graphs are based on the excellent MySQL Cacti Templates by Baron Schwartz.
To cut a long story short, it's really hard to find a specification of the JUnit output file format, but after lots of trying, I had a script that could run simpletests and report the results in a JUnit friendly (Hudson friendly) format, yey!
Find the script attached, there's an extra argument from the normal set, --xml which allows you to specify the directory in which to output the xml result files. Lovely.
Finally you'll want to make a bash script that passes in all the right arguments to the script and then run that from Hudson, as part of the normal build process.
Scrum and Kanban are two flavours of Agile software development - two deceptively simple but surprisingly powerful approaches to software development. So how do they relate to each other?
The purpose of this book is to clear up the fog, so you can figure out how Kanban and Scrum might be useful in your environment.
Part I illustrates the similarities and differences between Kanban and Scrum, comparing for understanding, not for judgement. There is no such thing as a good or bad tool – just good or bad decisions about when and how to use which tool.
Part II is a case study illustrating how a Scrum-based development organization implemented Kanban in their operations and support teams.
Consistent with the style of “Scrum and XP from the Trenches”, this book strikes a conversational tone and is bursting with practical examples and pictures.
This book includes:
Kanban and Scrum in a nutshell Comparison of Kanban and Scrum and other Agile methods Practical examples and pitfalls Cartoons and diagrams illustrating day-to-day work Detailed case study of a Kanban implementation within a Scrum organization
Mapnik is a Free Toolkit for developing mapping applications. It's written in C++ and there are Python bindings to facilitate fast-paced agile development. It can comfortably be used for both desktop and web development, which was something I wanted from the beginning.
Mapnik is about making beautiful maps. It uses the AGG library and offers world class anti-aliasing rendering with subpixel accuracy for geographic data. It is written from scratch in modern C++ and doesn't suffer from design decisions made a decade ago. When it comes to handling common software tasks such as memory management, filesystem access, regular expressions, parsing and so on, Mapnik doesn't re-invent the wheel, but utilizes best of breed industry standard libraries from boost.org
A free application to help you get what you need done. Pronto!
focus booster is a simple and elegant application designed to help you eliminate the anxiety of time and enhance your focus and concentration.
focus booster has been designed based on the principles of the Pomodoro Technique and features:
a sleek and unobtrusive design changes color as time goes by for quick, peripheral updates alarm/buzzer sounds for completed sessions customizeable time and sound settings session counter It's quick to start up and works efficiently in the background without consuming computer resources, or your focus.
Bytekit is a PHP extension that provides userspace access to the opcodes generated by PHP's compiler.
bytekit-cli is a command-line tool that leverages Bytekit to perform common code analysis tasks.
MySQL has a couple of sanity-check features to help keep you from doing dumb things.
max_join_size is a configuration option for the mysqld server program. It throws an error if you write a query that the optimizer estimates will examine more than this number of rows. –safe-updates is a command-line option to the mysql client program. It throws an error if you write an UPDATE or DELETE without a) a WHERE clause that refers to an indexed column or b) a LIMIT clause. It also sets the max_join_size and select_limit variables.
mycheckpoint is an open source monitoring utility for MySQL, with strong emphasis on user accessibility to monitored data.
It is SQL oriented: charts, reports and advances metrics are generated on the fly with views. There is no need for an external program to diagnose the data. In fact, mycheckpoint’s main duty is to to a one-time creation of a special purpose schema.
The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model.
Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008, where it was designed by Avinash Lakshman (one of the authors of Dynamo) and Prashant Malik. In a lot of ways you can think of Cassandra as Dynamo 2.0. Cassandra is in production use at Rackspace, Digg, and a number of other companies, but is still under heavy development.
RESTClient is a Java application to test RESTful webservices. It can be used to test variety of HTTP communications. From version 2.3 Beta 1, it has two executable Jars:
GUI version (restclient-ui-X.jar download) Cli version for batch execution of .rcq files (restclient-cli-X.jar download)
