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nuno costa — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:35:53 +0000

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Agile development

nuno costa — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:28:44 +0000

Follow @NunoFrancoCosta This series of articles have been in my task list for too long now. it is kind o shame that I'm being a scrum master for so long never ever wrote any article about it! So I'm finally starting a … Continue reading →

Managing dependies with composer

nuno costa — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:29:47 +0000

Follow @NunoFrancoCosta One of the most recurring events I face in the projects I'm involved is “How the hell do I manage all the dependencies?” You have internal libraries, frameworks, external libraries, it is just a big mess. It is very hard … Continue reading →

Unit testing in PHP with PHPUnit

nuno costa — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:37:01 +0000

Follow @NunoFrancoCosta So, your code is ready, or so you think. Now it is time for testing. You fire up the browser and go through each feature. That is when you find an error. You go back to the code, do some changes … Continue reading →

PartyPoker Slovakia

nuno costa — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:39:40 +0000

Follow @NunoFrancoCosta Party Poker is a monster among online poker sites. They are one of the biggest rooms with tremendous player action at any time of the day. Party Poker use proprietary software, meaning that it is not part of a network, but … Continue reading →

chrome does not start on fedora 16

nuno costa — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:27:42 +0000

Follow @NunoFrancoCosta I don't have the original port anymore, but if chrome does not start after the upgrade to fedora 16 and you are using NVIDIA drivers just run it like this LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 google-chrome this way your are telling chrome not use libGL … Continue reading →

Design patterns in Javascript : Observer

nuno costa — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:47:54 +0000

Follow @NunoFrancoCosta This pattern also referred as publisher – subscriber pattern describes a method to allow one object to be aware of another object changes. It allows you to ask to be notified when the state of the observed object changes, so … Continue reading →

Design patterns in Javascript : Factory

nuno costa — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:03:34 +0000

Follow @NunoFrancoCosta As the name implies this pattern is used to create objects, You can use it when you need to create an object without knowing the exact class, for example you want to create a Milk object but you don’t know … Continue reading →

Design patterns in Javascript : Singleton

nuno costa — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:38:19 +0000

Follow @NunoFrancoCosta The singleton patterns was documented as a solution to a simple problem, “Only one object of class X can be instantiated at any time in the application” Typically a singleton is implemented by restricting access to the class constructor, effectively … Continue reading →

Your code is CRAP

nuno costa — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:40:00 +0000

Follow @NunoFrancoCosta That is most probably true if you are not unit testing it or collecting metrics. One of the most important metrics is the Change Risk Analysis and Predictions or CRAP index. The CRAP index is designed to analyze and predict the … Continue reading →