About 2 months ago I sat in on a PHP performance session at work taught by non other than Rasmus Lerdof. Aside from creating PHP he had some really neat stuff to talk about concerning performance. Most of the presentation came from the php.net site, talks.php.net. Take a look at the talks when you have
A few people we’re having issues installing Zend_Tool on Windows, hell I was having trouble myself since all of the tutorials out there are either Macs or Red Hat based. So dont feel bad if your reading this :-). I thought i would take some time and create a tutorial, from the ground up and
Last week ZF 1.8 was released and this weekend I spent the better part of it looking through the documentation and over a few of the items released within this package. A few standouts include: Zend_Tool Zend_Tag The Cloud computing components For more information heres the complete list of features released. I also had a
Work has been overwhelming lately and frustrating but there was an interesting question asked by one of the developers at work. Can the Zend Framework run without the .htaccess file? The answer, Yes. Why do we need the .htaccess file First off why is the .htaccess file required in the first place by Zend Framework?
With the release of the new Zend Framework 1.7.3 a few nuggets were released. One of those nuggets was the extension support for JQuery UI Widgets. Featuring Dialog, Tabs, and Date Selection widgets among other bug fixes. (A full list of updated Zend 1.7.3 release notes can be seen here) With the release I started
This will be a quick entry. Are you having issues using the Zend_Paginator view functions? Yea me too. This affects all releases and isnt really a bug but more of a annoyance if you dont know whats going on. What is the issue? Well if you installed a fresh copy of PHP or if you
So about a month after initially starting on the code, I finally released two versions of the Zend_Service_Netflix wrapper for the Zend Framework, submitted a proposal to the Zend Framework Team, and changed the status on my proposal from “New” to “Ready for Review”. Pheww was that hard work put to good use. It feels
I popped on the headphones, slipped a Thievery Corporation track and started to read the new Netflix REST API. A few hours later and a mad rush to code, I created a pre-pre-pre-pre-alpha release package for the Zend Framework. It’s a rough implementation that has much to be done to it and has not been
The day was cloudy, it rained last night (i love rain), so it placed me into one of those, “damn about time”, moods. Then I popped open Chrome and came to one of my usual stomping grounds on the net. I clicked on the thread. Read how a few people were having an issue I
Like most of you know I’ve been interviewing with a few companies lately and during one of the interviews the interviewer expressed something to me that i thought I was the only one thinking. My thought, “wow i totally know what you mean…but i shouldn’t agree with you because you might think im kissing your
