You need to determine which aspects you have installed – then Unistall them

sudo pear uninstall phpunit/PHPUnit
sudo pear uninstall phpunit/DbUnit
sudo pear uninstall phpunit/PHP_CodeCoverage
sudo pear uninstall phpunit/File_Iterator
sudo pear uninstall phpunit/Text_Template
sudo pear uninstall phpunit/PHP_Timer
sudo pear uninstall phpunit/PHPUnit_MockObject
sudo pear uninstall phpunit/PHPUnit_Selenium
sudo pear uninstall pear.symfony-project.com/YAML


Then you need to specifically install the versions you require for the phpunti version you are reverting to
I chose 3.5.15 – even through Zend on officailly support 3.4.x I have been happily running with this.

You need to install the specific versions of each dependency, in an exact order depending on what you, then install PHPUnit-3.5.15 last.
But how do you install a previous persion of a dependency and phpunit easy

Next install these specific versions of each dependency, in this order, installing PHPUnit-3.5.15 last.

sudo pear install -
e.g
sudo pear install phpunit/PHPUnit-3.5.15


Hope that helps someone else not waste a hour.

In summary day 1 was excellent and after the free food and beer that followed the talks, spurned many interesting conversations with some talented phpists.

turns out if you want jsp’s to process expression langauge you need to tell them not to ignore it.

<%@ page isELIgnored ="false" %>

Who would have thought it.

• Test Driven Development
• Continuous Integration

I have just started to use a framework in Java and have opted for the Spring Framework.
Recently whilst working on a Spring Framework project – I was happily writing Integration tests and testing within the IDE and being new to the framework feeling very happy with my progress. However when I came to committing the code and running it through our Bamboo CI engine I was getting tests failing. (That didn’t fail in the IDE?)
The report showed

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to load ApplicationContext

Turns out the clean I was performing (as you would ) before tests in Maven was causing an issue. So I did a bit of digging and trying to resolve.

So this is here as a reminder and help for other people with the same issue.

You need to ensure you load your files from the classpath.

My code :

@ContextConfiguration  (locations = "classpath:/FormControllerTestCase-context.xml")
/* Note that if no file is specified to @ContextConfiguration, it is derived as -context.xml, */

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
public class FormControllerTestCase  {

    private FormController controller;

    @Before
    public void setup()
    {

         controller = new FormController();

    }

    @Test
    public void testIndexViewShownOnConstruction()
    {

And the key to it all was ensuring the context files and any associated property files were stored in /src/test/resources/

This is the default location Maven pulls from apparently.

And these are digital resources containing our memories , for example literally the BBC asked the public to contribute their memories of World War Two to a website between June 2003 and January 2006…” and five years later someone has decided to bin them. The BBC’s decision to actively delete old content (rather than simply allowing it to take up some space on a server) I think is the wrong decision and it made me think what we should do with web content past it expiration date (if there is such a thing) or more likely no longer commercially / economically viable?

More and more I find myself coding by convention as I rely on framework code.

I do this a lot in Java, largely because of the lack of underlying knowledge, I still have to think quite a lot about the basics, but with PHP this is different, so I thought I would write down my thoughts on the whole thing, so next time I question should I do this I might look back and take my own advice.

I have created a lot of stuff and earned my badges creating a lot of the standard design patterns from scratch.
So once you have solved the basic problem should I revert to some ready made solution, that is likely to have done it better than I had anyway.

If I need to build a quite large complex system or even one that I know is going to grow quite significantly. There are a number of advantages to using a framework, for the reason I can use other well tested code to achieve large proportions of the functionality,but largely to me code organisation and separation of concerns are the big pluses.

As I write a lot of stuff for internal use and most of the stuff is going to integrate with other systems I seem to have a knack of finding the quirks that make that hard work using the framework code, on both sides, there is a enough to do anyway.

So if I am writing a system should I use a framework — YES

If I am writing a small script forget it – even though I am tempted.

As to which, well that depends on the current trends and functionality you need.

It was a good weekend, and I am thoroughly pleased I attended, first the downsides, the un-conference bit did not really work in the venue. A series of lecture theatres do not make a good space for conducting an un-conference, it did not seem to flow and made it difficult I felt to run the sessions I did (WordHack). I also felt the quality of some of the presentations I attended could be improved but personal opinions and all that.

Overall the venue was well organised, credit has to go to Chi-chi Ekweozor for that I think, who was tireless and ensuring people’s needs were met. There were certainly a few highlights for me which could be summarised as

• WordPress in the Enterprise II (David Coveney) from Interconnectit
• Working with some awesome people on WordHack
• Being introduced to Custom Posts
• Some interesting stuff from Peter Westwood – one of the core developers
• being stimulated to think about BuddyPress – even though I did not attend any sessions on it

Oh and of course WordHack was an excellent adventure- that produced a whole self sustaining WordPress based site in a very limited amount of time, more can be learn’t about the process on the wordcamp wiki and the actual site is live at openaid.org.uk

So overall I think it was a good event, made so by the people involved. I will certainly be looking to go again next year.
If any one is thinking of getting involved with Wordcamps I would recommend it. As would I that you look out on wordpress.tv for videos from the weekend.

Wordcamp UK 2010

However I attend quite a few events throughout the year but I have missed WordCamp so far, I did follow online last year but it is never quite the same. Which is really the point of this post.
There is a trend at the moment for online conferences and yes whilst these have environmental benefits there is one big, quite obvious lacking I think, having attended both. - interaction with like minded people
summed up quite recently in a tweet by Craig Rowe

Even if you don’t engage with people much, there is a certain atmosphere with the Geek community, people are welcoming and you can often just eavesdrop on some awesome thing, from some extremely clever people, that are not speakers, that spark ideas for you in your situation. It is kind of social learning. Maybe it is my my lack of Psychology knowledge shows through here but as I understand J.B. Rotter’s theory of Social Learning I think this is reinforced in these environments. We do flourish and adopt behaviours/ideas later, as suggested the “effect of behaviour has an impact on the motivation of people to engage in that specific behaviour”. I usually come away from these events brimming with ideas and enthuisiam. So I suggest especially if you have not gone to one of these type of events before you give it a try. If you have read this and see me there let me know what you think.