Gravitywell at (not in) the Bath Half Marathon

Posted by Simon Bos on 24th March 2011

Bath Half photos for blog

Stuart and I visited the Bath Half Marathon 2011 recently. It's quite an emotional experience for people and for some its a huge achievement. Lots are running for charities of course and so the day leaves you with quite a buzz. We've promised that we'll be running ourselves next year...

Gravitywell has developed the new website for Bath Half and we'll be adding new features soon.

Click through for some photos I took at the race.

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Free iPhone wallpapers - Thailand Edition

Posted by Simon Bos on 23rd March 2011

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A couple of us have returned from some well-earned rest in Thailand. Here is a new set of free iPhone wallpapers; a kind of holiday gift!

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Dependancy Injection and Unit Testing

Posted by Stuart Forster on 22nd March 2011

Dependence injection isn't a new concept but is not yet widespread throughout the PHP community. One of the large advantages to using dependancy injection for objects is when coupled with Unit Testing. By injecting the dependancy as apposed to the object managing its dependancies itself allows your Unit Tests to test the object, and not any of the dependancies.

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Zend Framework: Disabling the Layout and View Renderer

Posted by Stuart Forster on 16th March 2011
Tagged: zend framework, PHP

Zend Framework Logo (Black)

One of the most common things I do when working with the Zend Framework is disabling the view and/or layout inside a controller (or for a specific action). I always forget how to do this. Here's how I do it...

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Using Selenium test tool in our site tests

Posted by Mike Caisey on 4th March 2011
Tagged: TDD, testing

I've recently incorporated the Selenium Java based test tool into our testing suite for some of our projects. “Selenium Remote Control allows you to write automated web application UI tests in any programming language against any HTTP website using any mainstream JavaScript-enabled browser.” Taken from http://seleniumhq.org

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