[phpns-dev] Next Meeting

[Trevor Morse]

Hi Everyone,

Been awhile since the last meeting and wondering if anyone is
interested in getting together again?

On that note, would you prefer to keep it informal and grab a few
beers somewhere, or do like we did the last time and have a bit of a
structured meeting(with free beer, mind you)?

Let me know if your interested and what you think.

Cheers,

Trevor

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[Shawn Greene]

Hey Trevor,

I would be in for the next meeting, when were you thinking of having it?

Cheers,
Shawn

[Trevor Morse]

Hey Shawn,

Not sure, anytime in the next couple of weeks or so...I am completely
open. Anytime/day better for you?

Cheers,

Trevor

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[George Anderson]

I would be interested in the next meeting. Let me know when you plan
to have it. I like the idea of a structured meeting or even just plan
a topic beforehand so we can all get something out of it.

George

[Trevor Morse]

Guys,

How does the week of May 10 sound? Day of the week doesn't really
matter to me, but how does Wed. the 12 sound?

Would anyone be interested in having a discussion around unit testing
and specifically PHPUnit? I could also talk about the PHPUnit database
extensions as I've been using them pretty heavily while working on
web2project.

-tm

[Trevor Morse]

Hi Everyone,

Let's plan for the 12th.

This time the gracious folks at Azorus have offered to host it at
there office. Which isn't far from Norex where we hosted the last.
Here's a google map:

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=36+Solutions+Dr,+Halifax,+Nova+Scotia&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=26.624964,60.292969&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=36+Solutions+Dr,+Halifax,+Halifax+County,+Nova+Scotia&t=h&z=16

It is locked with key card access after hours, so as it gets closer
we'll figure out how we are going to get everyone up there.

Finally, if you know of *anyone* doing PHP(or just interested for that
matter) in the Halifax area please let them know about this group. The
more people we have the better discussions/more opinions we can get!
On that note, does anyone have an in at any of the local universities?

Cheers,

Trevor

[Trevor Morse]

Hi Everyone,

Just a reminder about the meeting tomorrow night at the Azorus
offices. Lets shoot for 7:30, I'll bring the beer. :D We'll gather
downstairs and try to go up as a group so we don't have to make too
many trips up and down. However if your running late just give me a
shout on my cell phone 441-9066 and we'll send someone down to bring
you up.

Bring your unit testing stories and questions!

-tm

[Trevor Morse]

Hi Everyone,

Here are my slides from the meeting last night. Please let me know if
you have any questions, I'd be more then happy to answer them!

-tm

[D Keith Casey Jr]

Trevor Morse wrote:
> Here are my slides from the meeting last night. Please let me know if
> you have any questions, I'd be more then happy to answer them!

As one of the chief agitators on web2project, I'll add a bit here:

* Trevor's first submission to the project was a simple Phing script to
run the ~40 tests he'd written at that point. Since then we've expanded
the script to handle packaging, testing, svn changelog generation, and
other sanity check things. It's already saved *days* of effort and
potential mistakes.

* Due to his fresh eyes and new perspective from Unit Testing, we've
closed dozens of bugs and generally eliminated some odd behavior
inconsistencies. It's also prevented quite a few other bugs from making
it into core.

* Personally, I think our next step should be using something like
Hudson - http://hudson-ci.org/ - with post-commit hooks to do real
Continuous Integration with Code Coverage reports.

The Unit Testing - led by Trevor - has done some great things for the
project and made things move much faster than we could before.

My 0.02,
keith

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