philsturgeon

Never Expose DB Results Directly

1. If you rename a field, then your users are fucked. Convert with a hardcoded array structure.
2. Most DB drivers [for PHP] will show integers as numeric strings and false as "0", so you want to typecast them.
3. Unless you're using an ORM with "hidden" functionality, people will see passwords, salts and all sorts of fancy codes. If you add one and forget to put it in your $hidden array then OOPS!

Use the URI sparingly, and correctly

1. Use the query string for paired params instead of /users/id/5/active/true. Your API does not need to be SEO optimised.
2. ?format=xml is stupid, use an Accept: application/xml header. I added this to the CodeIgniter Rest Server once for lazy people, and now people think it's a thing. It's not.

callado4

Making behat use phantomjs for the tests

If you want to run it on phantomjs (a headless browser) you can add this profile to your behat.yml and you need phantomjs >= 1.8.0

phantomjs:
    extensions:
        Behat\MinkExtension\Extension:
            base_url: http://dev.local
            goutte: ~
            selenium2:
 wd_host: "http://localhost:8643/wd/hub" 

briandoll

To toast:

• Make sure you have ImageMagick installed (brew install imagemagick)
• Change line 7 of toast.rb to the repository name you're working with
• toast!

$ bundle install
$ ./get_token [user] [pass]
$ export GHUSER=[myuser]

nikcub

In August 2007 a hacker found a way to expose the PHP source code on facebook.com. He retrieved two files and then emailed them to me, and I wrote about the issue:

http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/11/facebook-source-code-leaked/

It became a big deal:

http://www.techmeme.com/070812/p1#a070812p1

The two files are index.php (the homepage) and search.php (the search page)

gregoryyoung

Greg's Stop Loss Kata

Testing is very hard when time is involved ...

A trailing stop loss is a term used in financial trading. For a very in depth explanation you can read here http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/03/080603.asp and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_(exchange)#Stop_orders

However we do not need a huge amount of background in order to do the kata as we are going to limit the problem a bit.

The general idea is that when you buy into a stock at a price say $10. You want it to automatically get sold if the stock goes below $9 (-$1). If we use the term "trailing" that means that id the price goes up to $11 then the sell point becomes $10.