Month: July 2012

• It is more important to have a standard than what the standard is.
• ‘use strict’ in JavaScript.
• jslint
• jQuery
• Throw objects not strings as exceptions in JavaScript:

  throw {
      'name': 'MyException',
      'message': 'Something went wrong',
      'code': 500,
      'previous': e // Nested exception.
  }
  

• Controllers should be super-skinny (because they are hard to test).
• HTML5
• Only read querystring and post body in the controller.
• Say *why* you did something in the commit message, don’t just describe what you did.
• The first line of a commit message should be a short standalone message.
• Err on the side of verbosity in commit messages.
• Don’t form HTML in JavaScript strings.
• Good internationalization is hard (ICU?).
• Run the tests before pushing.
• Automate deployment.
• Keep markup as semantic as possible.
• Code review is a priority.
• LESS
• SMACSS
• Responsive Design
• Backbone
• Automatically pull dependencies in, don’t add them to the repo.
• Don’t store artifacts generated by the build process alongside the source code.
• git
• Unit tests
• The unit tests should run *fast* and offline.
• Send the right HTTP response code.
• JSON

export DATE=`date --rfc-3339=date` && mysqldump -u root -p --all-databases >~/bak/db-$DATE.sql

In working with FuelPHP recently a few thing have come up. The devs on #fuelphp on Freenode have been awesome at coming up with or accepting fixes. Here are the problems with immediate workarounds and long term solutions.

Fuel won’t let you refer to a View_Model with a templating engine extension

While View::forge('hello/world.twig') works fine, ViewModel::forge('hello/world.twig') fails to find the ViewModel because of the “.twig” part.

Workaround is to instead explicitly set the view on your ViewModel with public $_view = 'world.twig';

Long term fix is coming in Fuel 1.2.1 maintenance release https://github.com/fuel/core/commit/c06b0c67c027ee17bafa59cb089bd6c5baee80ab

Fuel insists that controllers are in the global namespace and prefixed with “Controller_”

No workaround.

Long term fix coming in Fuel 1.3 that will allow you to namespace and prefix controllers as you desire (as you already can with views) via a config setting: https://github.com/fuel/core/commit/882e564de66dc3f4edf83181b8fa36a8a8b083cd

Fuel’s View_Smarty does not expose the “plugins_dir” option.

Workaround is to set the option anyway, direct on the Parser object in your controller(s). The trouble is that accessing this object (and working out if it is Smarty-related) can be complicated. The naive version is something like:

$this->view->parser()->addPluginsDir(APPPATH.DS.'pluginsdirectoryname');

But if you want to continue to support non-Smarty rendering engines and are using ViewModels and Controller_Template it ends up looking more like (don’t judge me!):

        if (is_object($this->canvas)) {
            $rc = new \ReflectionClass($this->canvas);
            if ($rc->hasMethod('parser')) {
                $parser = $this->canvas->parser();
            } else if ($rc->hasProperty('_view')) {
                $parser = $this->canvas->_view->parser();
            } else {
                throw new YokoException('Unable to initialize Smarty i18n plugin.');
            }
            $smartyParam = 'plugins_dir';
            $ourPluginsDir = APPPATH . '/smarty';
            $pluginsDir = array_merge($parser->$smartyParam, [$ourPluginsDir]);
            $parser->$smartyParam = $pluginsDir;
        }

The long term fix is coming in the 1.3 release of Fuel’s parser package https://github.com/fuel/parser/pull/48. The devs were very good about accepting this patch which bodes well for future contributions to the project.

Spain 1 - 0 Germany 2008
Spain 1 - 0aet Netherlands 2010
Spain 4 - 0 Italy 2012

Casillas (F F F)
Sergio Ramos (F F F)
Xavi (F F F)
Iniesta (F F* t87)
Alonso (f63 t87 F)
Farbregas (t63 f87 t75)
Torres (t78* f105 f75*)
Capdevila (F F _)
Puyol (F F _)
Busquets (_ F F)
Silva (t56 S t59*)
Fabregas (_ f87 t75)
Pedrito (_ t60 f59)
Arbeloa (S S F)
Marchena (F S _)
Senna (F _ _)
Pique (_ _ F)
Alba (_ _ F*)
Jesus Navas (_ f60 S)
Santi Cazorla (f66 _ S)
Mata (_ S f87*)
Villa (S t105 _)
Guiza (f78 _ _)
Reina (S S S)
Albiol (S S S)
Llorente (_ S S)
Javi Martinez (_ S S)
Juanfran (_ _ S)
Negredo (_ _ S)
Palop (S _ _)
Fernando Navarro (S _ _)
Sergio Garcia (S _ _)
Juanito (S _ _)
De la Red (S _ _)
Valdes (_ S _)

F = full match played, t = subbed off, f = subbed on, S = unused substitute, _ = not present, * = goal.