Weekly roundup: an hot April

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Here in Italy the thermometer is at 31°C (88F) even if we are still in April. Global warming? Probably just statistical variance.

These are my original articles published this week on DZone.
Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Named Test Suite shows how to execute test suites by name (dividing test in groups) in PHPUnit.
HTTP is your wrench tells you that studying REST is useful even if you don't write web services.
Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Utility Method is the basic brick for refactoring test code.
The measures of programming sustain a simple thesis: that a 80x25 window with 4 spaces for indentation is enough for reading source code.