Category Archives: Computing

Loading MySQL data for phpunit testing

Posted on February 9, 2011 by james

I’d been bugged for a while because when I was writing phpunit tests for some of my code, I couldn’t find a tidy way of pre-loading data into a MySQL database for testing against. Everything I came up with seemed … Continue reading →

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Searching for the longest match with MySQL

Posted on February 9, 2011 by james

I’ve been involved with Carbon Guerrilla, a project to allow organisations to manage and track their CO2 emissions for some time now. Yesterday I was working on some code to allow people to compare emissions across locations by re-basing emissions … Continue reading →

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Sortable list of Messier Objects

Posted on February 8, 2011 by james

Although I’ve been interested in the stars for years, I’ve only recently become a telescope owner.  Despite the lack of clear nights since receiving my new toy, I’ve spent some time looking at the obvious things like the moon and … Continue reading →

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