Zend Con 2009

This year I had the oppurtunity to attend zendcon. I’m slowly beginning to embrace the fact that I’m a PHP developer. It was great being out there and picking up things that can make my job a bit easier. Some of the things I learned about include:
1) unit testing. This is a beast that I’ve [...]

The three pillars of testing

So social websites are all the rage, but no one gets that it’s not an overnight process. One of the most often forgotten areas is quality assurance (qa). Working on huge projects in less than ideal timelines almost guarantees that there will be mistakes but qa could be used as a way to mitigate risks [...]

Finally launched Virgin.com!

I’ve been working on Virgin.com for a while and it finally launched last week (July 10th to be exact). It’s a social website for the Virgin group of companies that pushes the boundaries of a corporate website. This is one of those sites I’m extremely proud of (enough so to blog about it) because I [...]

Zend_Search_Lucene Multi Index search

Zend_Search_Lucene is a good way to get search into a site relatively quickly. It’s based on Apache’s Lucene search and it’s a free alternative to getting a google applicance or something like that. One thing it’s lacked for a long time was the ability to search multiple indices (though Apache Lucene supported this Zend_Search_Lucene didn’t). [...]

Mysqli vs PDO in Zend Framework

I am currently working on a major project where the website’s performance is critical to success. All my projects for the last year have used Zend Framework and the mysqli adapter. There are sources on the internet that sing the praises of Mysqli over PDO. I was recently forced to use the pdo adapter (because [...]

Zend_Db_Table issue

So I must say I like Zend’s database layer the best so far. Good abstraction and I was able to build on it. One problem I ran into is when I changed the name of a primary key column (after some architecting). ZF caches the table’s metadata and that meta data is used to build [...]

Open Id already getting tainted?

So I am a proponent of OpenID. While I haven’t been able to influence its use in projects at work (will not happen anytime soon) I have been trying to implement it into a blog cms I am writing to replace the one I am using now (wordpress is popular but lacking imho).  So I [...]

Zend framework cake view rendering port

So I have gone head first in using Zend framework. First order of business has been to port libraries/features to zend framework. One of the features that I have always migrated is CakePHP’s view layout structure. For CI I was fortunate enough to get a library already made but no such luck this time.
Installation:

Download my [...]

OpenID support coming to Zend Framework

So I just got another reason to validate my move to zend framework. For some it may be minor but for me it is major because I have been wishing for this since I didn’t want to have to build another custom library component. OpenID support is coming (the documentation is already up) and it [...]

Zend Framework

So here I am writing another PHP framework post. Fortunately I think I have covered a lot of ground with previous trials (the previous framework posts were based on production level websites) and I am just about ready to call it day. From day one when looking at frameworks I had my eye on the [...]