Application Architecture – Part 1

The last post I talked about the service layer and how it was going to help solve some problems that I’ve been having with the way I architect applications. Since then and may hours (days) of research I’ve since had a number of revelations that has really changed the way I approach architecture and brought [...]

Service Layer in MVC

At one of the sessions that I attended at ZendCon I was introduced to the “Service Layer” pattern by Matthew Weier O’Phinney. At the time I didn’t quite get it but I’ve been trying out all those stuff that I’ve been meaning to while on vacation. There are a lot of resources on the web [...]

Openhacknyc

Had a great time this weekend at Yahoo’s openhacknyc. Yahoo has a lot of cool technology that I’ve never had a chance to use but will definitely be looking into now. Of particular interest was fire eagle for geo locating, YQL and their tv widget platform. The atmosphere was great and though I spent 30 [...]

Zend Framework and Google OpenID Login

I wanted to use google’s federated login in my application and unfortunately found out that Zend Framework doesn’t support XRDS discovery. Fortunately (and as a testament to the size of the Zend Framework community) I wasn’t the first to hit this block and a patch was posted in the issue tracker. Not wanting to taint [...]

Facebook Connect

I have been working on integrating Facebook Connect into a corporate website I’ve been working on (yeah i’s not the traditional corporate website). In the very early stage of the project openId was considered and then along came Facebook Connect. As much as I like the idea behind openId theory takes second seat to actual [...]

1234554321 needs some love too

Geeks everywhere are excited about 1234567890 (unix time) happening today, but not so much mention of 1234554321. To commemorate the event co-workers Jim Williams and Vora Vor put this site together

Open Id Cons and Pros

I was in love with the idea behind open id and the possibilities. As the title suggests I think there are more cons to using open id than pros. This really came to light after a client requested it and we were looking into integrating it into the site.
Cons

The implementation is not consistent between publishers. [...]

It’s been a while

I’ve been out of the flash world for a little while and been working more in PHP and helping develop Rokkan’s product offerings. While I’ve been knee deep in working with the Zend Framework and cranking out community sites my co worker asked me why was I following the flash blogs. It’s been great to [...]

Google gears and air are a good pair

So when google gears was first announced the spin seemed to be challenging AIR. I never really was interested in google gears because everything I read about it seemed to fall inline with what AIR had to offer (though Adobe collaborated with the gears team to implement sqlite). In the keynote at Google I/O gears [...]

As3 rpc-lib update

Its been a while since I updated the featured download (a year and 3 days actually)for the lib (the version in svn was always the most reliable). Thanks to everyone who sent in issues and patches.
Update:
So there have been a number of reports of an Illegal Override Error in the new version of the [...]