I think my pet peeve of the day today is going to be developers who think that no documentation or setup instructions should be necessary for their little chunk of code… especially when it mashes up as many things as Harald Kirschner’s Fancy Uploader does.
(Then again, I should …
One of the guys I work with, Jeff Carouth, rolled out an application this week in less than four working days that handles audit trails for a bunch of proposals that our employer’s executive office needs to track. It’s bug-free thanks to unit tests, it looks good because our …
I keep forgetting to post this so I can find it later.
The documentation for Zend_Test_PHPUnit requires that you break out your configuration into a plugin as shown in Matthew’s sample pastebin application.
Using an abstraction layer (especially with caching) means that sometimes you don’t think much about exactly what you’re doing to the poor database. Here’s a good article on profiling your database queries and optimizing them. I’ve found that xdebug + webgrind is also a pretty good solution for when …
Matthew Weier-O’Phinney is one of the developers of the Zend Framework, and recently released a pastebin sample application to showcase the new Dojo integration released in 1.6.
One of the strengths of the Zend Framework is that there’s no one way to do anything. Sure, there’s ways that …
I ran into a big problem with a client site this past week, and I owe it all to my coworker Jeff Carouth for helping me see it from a different angle.
My client’s specification called for two behaviors that monkey with ZF’s usual domain.tld/module/controller/action or domain.tld/controller/action routing mechanism. …
Zend Framework Architecture — A promising article in one of the better PHP blogs. Doesn’t take into account the work that Matthew Weier-O’Phinney has already done to start refactoring ZF for 5.3.
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First, read this: The Answer is No @ The Big Contrarian.
In response: At least part of the problem is that we STILL haven’t defined the question. Is it that we develop a web application to solve problems in the most efficient and graceful way? Or is it that …
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