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Entries written in May 2008

I was reading the Atlassian Blog when I stumbled upon a post about Selenium. Selenium is a way to do unit testing from the UI, like a browser. Here’s the project page — looks like a cool way to automate testing of UI elements, which is often hard …

Google App Engine Launcher for OSX

Written May 16, 2008 in apple, webdev

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Proving that yet again the Mac is the premier development environment for everything web-related, Google has released an App Engine Launcher for OSX, which delivers and includes the App Engine SDK.

(Via ReadWriteWeb.)

Want to develop for Google Apps, but waitlisted?

Written May 15, 2008 in webdev

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There’s an alternative hosting spot, AppDrop for those of us who are on the indefinite waitlist. I’d like to learn a bit of python for the project, but I’ve been a PHP developer for so long that I might not actually use it until they support PHP.

You can …

MySQL Cluster / Carrier Grade Edition

Written May 12, 2008 in mysql, opensuse

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There aren’t any binaries for MySQL Carrier Grade Edition, which includes the NDB Cluster engine, enabling highly available MySQL services. If you’re using OpenSUSE, you can get an older edition (MySQL 5.1.24) from the Build Service … or the most recent Carrier Grade Edition, 6.2 and 6.3, from the MySQL …

Zend Form Decorators Tutorial

Written May 5, 2008 in webdev, zend framework

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While we’re waiting for me to recover from my vacation over the weekend… Decorators with Zend Form - Matthew has posted what he hopes will be the definitive Zend Form & Zend Form Decorators tutorial.

Your First Zend Framework Application: Day Four

Written May 1, 2008 in first application, howto, webdev, zend framework

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And now the fun begins! Today we’re going to really show some of the power of Zend Framework. All the steps that you’ve taken in the previous tutorials will suddenly make sense — you’re going to be set up to authenticate users in a few minutes flat.

If you don’t know basic OOP (Object-Oriented Programming) principles, now would be a good time to go do some reading on them. We’re going to make heavy use of inheritance, as well as overriding. Just keep in mind that PHP is not a strongly typed language.

Let’s get started. For authentication, we’re going to build the form the old fashioned way so that you can get a good example for ‘how it was done’ versus ‘how smoothly it can be done’ with Zend Framework.