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Its almost Christmas, and I’m all excited by the prospect of kicking back and relaxing for a few days with friends and family.

…not to mention eating all the delightful food, whose impact on my waistline I shall no doubt be tackling well into February!

Its been a busy year both in my personal and professional life (my traditional new years post will no doubt follow sometime in March), but I would like to take the opportunity to point out that I am available to hire for project work.

Give me a nudge if you would like to talk!

Anyway… nothing more remains but to wish you all a very merry Christmas and an awesome 2012!

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Building on what I was talking about last week, I’ve spent a little time tidying up and genericising the simple regression test framework I often find myself using and have open sourced it over on Github.

So without further ado, I’d like to introduce the Really Simple Test Framework!

This is a PHP command line application, so you’ll need the php5-cli module installed.

Usage

php test.php [-p path/to/tests] [-t HelloWorldTest]

So for example, to run all the tests in the sub directory /tests/

php test.php

To specify another directory to look in for tests

php test.php -p /path/to/my/tests

To run a specific test only, specify it by its CLASS NAME

php test.php -t MyClassTest

You can specify multiple tests to run…

php test.php -t MyClassTest -t AnotherTest

Have a butchers at the README.txt for more details on writing your own tests!

» Github Project Page

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Following on from my post yesterday, I would like to introduce something I quickly hacked together to show how the kind of thing I was talking about might work.

As discussed in yesterday’s article, I already use twitter to provide a data feed for selective traffic alerts.

Street Level URLs provides a simple wrapper around this search, providing you with a nice summary page and the option to access the data in a number of different formats.

It uses twitter for the actual data and uses mod_rewrite rules to wrap the actual search up into an addressable URL.

Have fun!

» Street Level URLs