Cyclomatic complexity and path coverage when writing tests

Video (I was there!)

accompanying pdf

Make Firefox work with dark themes in Gnome/GTK/Unity

Google and stackoverflow like to fuck with the colors for their search boxes.. after fighting with greasemonkey for the whole day I finally gave up and installed Stylish then added this as a global stylesheet:

input, textarea {
    background: #000000 ! important;
    color: #FFFFFF ! important;
}

In conkeror, simply changed everything with a stylesheet in the .conkerorrc file (or folder).
in .conkerorrc/main.js



let (sheet = get_home_directory()) {
    sheet.appendRelativePath(".conkerorrc/stylesheets/input_color_fix-user.css");
    register_user_stylesheet(make_uri(sheet));
}

in .conkerorrc/stylesheet/input_color_fix-user.css

input, textarea {
    background: #000000 ! important;
    color: #FFFFFF ! important;
} 

Ubuntu, Unity, Xmonad and the missing appmenu

Finally figured out how to remove the global appmenu in unity that causes the text based menu at the top of my apps to disappear in xmonad.  Have to remove indicator-appmenu.

sudo apt-get remove indicator-appmenu

Changing theme colors in Unity for Ubuntu without installing gnome-tweak-tool

gnome-tweak-tool seems to want to install all of gnome for it to work.  Instead just edit these files:

/usr/share/themes/[theme]/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

/usr/share/themes/[theme]/gtk-3.0/gtk.css 

/usr/share/themes/[theme]/gtk-2.0/gtkrc 

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Geben CheatSheet

i	step into
o	step over
r	step out
b	set breakpoint at current line
u	unset breakpoint at current line
B	breakpoint menu (set conditional break points, call breakpoints, etc).. investigate later
g	run
q	quit
e	evaluate php
c	run to current line (run to cursor)
C-c f	open file in geben, useful for setting breakpoints in files further down the call stack (use after geben has started with a call to http://yoururl/?XDEBUG_SESSION_START)

The Etsy way

http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2012/02/13/the-etsy-way/

PDO utf-8 issues

Had issues with json_encode complaining:

Invalid UTF-8 sequence in argument 

Fixed it by adding

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => "SET NAMES utf8"

to the PDO creation line.. ie:

$pdo = new PDO(
    'mysql:host=mysql.example.com;dbname=example_db',
    "username",
    "password",
    array(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => "SET NAMES utf8"));

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