Testing: Drama numbers

Did you know there are special telephone numbers for tv shows and movies? But we can use them to use them for testing. Don’t use your or other real telephone numbers! Don’t use RANDOM because they might be belong to someone. Bad things might happen, if you do this. The same problem had someone creatingContinue reading “Testing: Drama numbers”

From Stuck to Success: Ensuring Progress with Proactive Project Management

As a project manager, I often view our work differently from our developers. While the dev team focuses on solving technical challenges, my job is to ensure projects stay on track and meet both deadlines and client expectations. One of the key tools we use to manage tasks is Jira, where every ticket moves throughContinue reading “From Stuck to Success: Ensuring Progress with Proactive Project Management”

Libreoffice, Protection and Conditional Formats

Besides being the CEO of Winkelwagen, I’m active in one or the other association. For one of them I created a LibreOffice document to fiddle myself through the german tax system for associations which are NOT tax exempt(!). Today I optimised once again the spreadsheet. One of the things I do is protecting all theContinue reading “Libreoffice, Protection and Conditional Formats”

PHPUnit as a beginner

thePHP.cc is a company offering an education flat rate for PHP developer. Because we are on a good basis with them, they offered us a free seat and we are very happy to have one. The following blog post is the experience our junior developer Bruno Correia has so far. As a junior software developer,Continue reading “PHPUnit as a beginner”

JIRA: No ticket is finished if SmartList not finished

We are using a plugin for JIRA called Smart Checklist for Jira. Pro. With this plugin we can have TODO-Lists on Tickets. Often it makes sense for us to not create subtasks for each little requirement, because tickets come with a lot of bureaucracy and if the ticket takes more time to finish it, thenContinue reading “JIRA: No ticket is finished if SmartList not finished”