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Five tips for speeding up Eclipse PDT and Zend Studio
Eclipse Helios (3.6) and Zend Studio 7.1 (and above) include a new version of Eclipse PDT, labeled 2.2. This new release uses a new repository for storing code reference information. With these simple tips you can significantly improve the performance of this repository which will speed up code completion, searching for definitions, type hierarchy views and more.
Posted on 8 September 2010 | 8:12 am
PHP, Flex and Mobile
Ryan Stewart and Kevin Schroeder (two all around great guys) have written an article on using Flex and Zend Framework to build the front end and back end of an application respectively. Click on it, let’s talk about this for a bit.
Posted on 7 September 2010 | 9:39 am
Zend Framework is a BOSSie Award Winner
Last week, while I was on vacation, the news broke that IDG's InfoWorld had announced its annual InfoWorld Bossie Award winners ("Bossie" stands for "Best of Open Source Software"), and that Zend Framework had won the " best open source application development software " award.
Posted on 1 September 2010 | 12:22 pm
Extending Zend Form Element to create customized Phone number field
Remember phones? (yes those things you text with.) Anis Ahmad recently blogged about how he created a Zend_Form_Element to wrap not only the display but the validation of a phone number. While it won’t handle BR-549, it does seem to handle all modern phone numbers. If you use Zend Framework, click on in, I’ll give you the details and links.
Posted on 1 September 2010 | 8:24 am
DataModeler: Simple ORM - Part 1 Models
DataModeler is an Open Source ORM I began writing at the beginning of the year. I had experience with ActiveRecord, but was dissuaded from using it too often because it was difficult to unit test (at least I felt so). Wanting to learn Test Driven Development better, I decided to create my own small ORM framework: DataModeler. In this article, I’ll go over creating a Model and the different ways you can modify one.
Posted on 31 August 2010 | 3:50 pm
Creating PDF Documents with Zend Framework
PHP comes with a number of options to help developers dynamically generate PDF files from within their applications. The Haru and PDF lib extensions offer a complete API for dynamic PDF generation, and there also exist a number of open-source PHP components that can be used for the same purpose. This article will introduce you to one such component, the Zend_Pdf component that ships as part of the Zend Framework, and illustrate how it can be used to perform sophisticated PDF operations from within a PHP application.
Posted on 30 August 2010 | 9:00 am
Quick Start Symfony DI (Dependency Injection) Tutorial
Dependency injection is a technique that allows for loosely coupled objects within a software application. Generally if an object requires access to the functionality of another it would be instantiated internally leading to tightly coupled systems. By implementing dependency injection we inject the required objects ready for use (sometimes also referred to inversion of control - IOC).
Posted on 27 August 2010 | 8:32 am
Zend Framework 1.10.8 Released
The Zend Framework team announces the immediate availability of Zend Framework 1.10.8 , our eighth maintenance release in the 1.10 series. This release includes around 22 bug fixes. A special reminder to those users of Zend_Service_Twitter , please ensure you upgrade to 1.10.6, 1.10.7, or 1.10.8 ASAP. These releases introduce a change in the Zend_Service_Twitter API that enforces the use of OAuth by default when using methods that require authentication. The change was introduced to help prepare Zend Framework users for the Twitter OAuthcalypse scheduled in 6 days from now on August 31, 2010 . (If you cannot upgrade, there are other ways to integrate Zend_Oauth with Zend_Service_Twitter .)
Posted on 25 August 2010 | 2:49 pm
NP-Gravatar
Zend Framework extension, which provides classes for using and implementing Gravatar’s services and features. It consists of HTTP client for performing Gravatar Profile Requests, client for Gravatar XML - RPC API and view helper for rendering Gravatar image URL s.
Posted on 24 August 2010 | 11:20 am
Dev Derby! Delve Deep for Details
We are actively recruiting participants to take place in a developer event (“Dev Derby”) that pits one language against others. It is a day-long programming challenge where teams of developers work to create an application serving a real-world need. Five teams will represent different programming languages—PHP, C#, Ruby, ColdFusion, and Java—to produce a demo application that will be released as open source software.
Posted on 23 August 2010 | 8:00 am
Software development DSL
When I venture out into the real world, the one not populated with developers, I get a lot of strange looks and odd stares when I talk. Apparently there are a lot of people out there who don’t grok grep, have never been slashdotted, and can’t tell a brown number from a WAG . I saw r0ml give a talk one year about domain specific languages and how they are important. I apologize to r0ml for bastardizing his idea but today I am going to share five of our more colorful terms from the software development DSL .
Posted on 20 August 2010 | 2:33 pm
TODAY, Tomorrow, and the Next Day -> ZF Bug Hunting Days!
If you hadn't planned for it already, start setting aside time now so you can join in the Zend Framework Monthly Bughunt! Today, tomorrow and Saturday (of August 19th, 20th and 21st 2010), we'll be hosting our monthly bug hunt. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, each month, we organize the community to help reduce the number of open issues reported against the framework.
Posted on 19 August 2010 | 12:16 pm
Get involved in the PHP community: 5 easy steps that take less than 5 minutes each
So you program in PHP . Are you active in a user group, forum, irc channel or any of the other of hundreds of ways that developers can get in touch with each other, share ideas or just talk shop? No? Come on in, I’ve got some things to share with you. (If the answer is yes, come on in anyhow, you mind find a new idea you like or something you want to share)
Posted on 18 August 2010 | 4:06 pm
It's That Time Again- Announcing August's ZF Bug Hunting Days
Yep, it's the third week of the month again- and you know what that means: Zend Framework Monthly Bughunt! This Thursday, Friday and Saturday of August (the 19th, 20th and 21st 2010), we'll be hosting our monthly bug hunt. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, each month, we organize the community to help reduce the number of open issues reported against the framework.
Posted on 17 August 2010 | 10:25 am
Matthew Weier O'Phinney talks about "Autoloading Benchmarks"
If you know Matthew Weier O’Phinney ( MWOP ) then you have probably already read this post. If you don’t know him, click on in and I’ll give you the low-down.
Posted on 17 August 2010 | 10:05 am
New PHP5.3+ Framework: Jolt
To further framework research and development, I've recently released a new PHP5.3+ framework: Jolt. While it is in a very alpha state, it does allow for quick application delivery. Most interesting about it is that it doesn't have the M in MVC - it lets you use your own ORM or ActiveRecord framework.
Posted on 13 August 2010 | 8:14 am
Chaining language with default route
How to include language id into default route is a very common question among ZF developers. This blog post describes language chaining with default module route. Additional controller plugin checks, if the language id has changed, and takes care of the required actions.
Posted on 12 August 2010 | 9:13 am
NP - Asirra
Set of custom Zend Framework classes, which provide API for using Asirra (Animal Species Image Recognition for Restricting Access) service.
Posted on 11 August 2010 | 11:36 am
ZendCon T-Shirt contest
Free T-Shirts may not be the reason people attend conferences but 6 months after the conference, it is usually the one thing you still remember. (Except for maybe the after party where you had four White Russians and the fifth ended up on a friend) This year Zend has decided to crowd source the design of the ZendCon10 T-Shirts. Click on in and I’ll give you the low-down.
Posted on 10 August 2010 | 12:34 pm
Cal Evans' Blog: PHP, Community and User Groups
In a new post to his blog today Cal Evans looks at PHP, the community and how user groups fit into the mix . He shares opinions from the community and a video taken of a roundtable at this year's TEKX .
Posted on 9 August 2010 | 10:16 am