Continuous Integration (CI) has become an essential part of development environments. PHP Developers can make use of PHPCI and/or Jenkins for their CI. PHPCI is a great tool by Block8, https://www.phptesting.org/. PHPCI provides a very intuitive interface for developers to understand where the solution broke. Especially for code analysis PHPCI is able to link to … Continue reading PHPCI to Jenkins Plugin

Conclusion Failover mechanisms are neither an extra effort nor an extra cost that can be ignored in software solutions. From the developer’s perspective failover mechanisms are a sign-off: Understanding of working environment of a specific piece of code, Willingness to supply a reliable and robust system, A way to avoid irresolvable issues. On the other … Continue reading Software Failover: The jump-sheet for everyone – Conclusion

Why I lost my work? One of the frustrating aspects of utilising a digital system is when the system experiences an unexpected behaviour. It is frustrating, as all the work previously done tends to get lost and has to be done all over again. In the early years of word processing, the auto-save feature or … Continue reading Software Failover: The jump-sheet for everyone – Part III

My technical design is flawless It is a well known fact that developers tend to consider their product as their perfect creation. Thus, it is very difficult for them to understand that there might be scenarios that can occur, although not explicitly specified in requirements. The next sections show why introducing failover mechanisms does not … Continue reading Software Failover: The jump-sheet for everyone – Part II