My development tools are now being made public! I am moving it all into one project at SourceForge where there will be guest downloads, and SVN access. Only myself and a few other developers will have write access. I am hoping that pushing it all into open source (MIT license) will help […]

Unit testing is a very powerful form of debugging which many developers don’t know about. Once your applications get bigger, it is daunting to make any changes in fear of breaking the entire application. Re-testing the entire application as a whole is both silly and time consuming. Even having to test various […]

After doing various unit testing for VDE, I’ve encountered a quite annoying flaw with PHP unit testing in general. You can’t test private or protected functions, since they are being called publicly from the test function.
Since in most cases you are testing a class file with only classes in it, I decided to try […]

A few of my friends have asked me about this recently, so I’ll document it here for others as well.
Visibility refers to how an object property or method can be seen or called. The simplest type, and the default (making it the most common) is public.
A public visibility means there are no restrictions […]