Recently, when trying to write a bookmarklet for Firefox in JavaScript I faced a problem with testing DOM reliant operations in it. The bookmarklet was being written in Node environment and tested with Mocha and Chai. Since, node does not provide jsdom, I had to look for an ...

In this article I look at how to pass a string from a shell script to a PHP program. This problem shows up regularly to me when I make a HTTP request with curl on the command line and have to process response data returned by the utility, often JSON encoded data, using ...

CURL is one of these killer command line tools, which are as good today, in the age of ever more ubiquitous JavaScript and APIs as they were years ago, in gone-by times when a simple GET or POST HTTP request would have done what it takes. It is a transport tool, which ...

Comprehending code is often a hard and time-consuming task. It becomes even harder when a piece of code your are dealing with is a large class with a sizeable number of properties and methods. Level complexity grows even further when object based on a class starts calling ...