1. You need to pick a framework for which you have support within your organization, area that you live or industry vertical that you are working in. I call this stage picking your poison 2. Once you get that then you need to find out how easy it is to integrate with external libraries or […]
My Take – Top 10 Reasons Why Firefox is still Better than Chrome for Web Development
This my take on the topic started at http://tinyurl.com/3fhw7hb from personal experience. My reasons are below: 1. Firebug – the defacto standard for web development troubleshooting, along with plugins like Google Page Speed, FirePHP, etc 2. Web Developer- another great extension, allows use of lines, clearing cache, disabling Javascript and cookies etc. 3. Other plugins […]
Zend Framework – Authentication Component and Page Caching
Well now back after a few weeks caught between the new baby and closing out a few projects. Still getting more goodness from Zend Framework, as we replace a lot of our home grown code with framework components. The latest has been replacing custom login queries with Zend Auth (http://www.framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.auth.html) In 15 minutes the connection initialization, […]
New Family Addition
Easter came early as our family got a new member, so I will probably be more off over the next few weeks. Welcome little man
OpenCMS Shell Export Issues – exportResources vs exportResourcesAndUserdata
Well it has been some time since I wrote, but it has been pretty busy over at work, with one issue after another to be resolved. We have been having an issue with OpenCMS backups on the shell, even opened up an issue on the dev mailing list (http://lists.opencms.org/pipermail/opencms-dev/2011q2/035562.html) where the backups at the shell […]
MySQL Design and Administration Tools – Q1 2011
MySQL (http:/www.mysql.com), the web database formely fully open source, then bought by Sun for $1bn, which was then swallowed by the all mighty database giant Oracle (http://www.oracle.com) is finally growing up. From MySQL 5.0 with the introduction of views and stored procedures (terrible performance) to 5.1 which stabilized the features to 5.5 (the latest GA) version which […]
Browser Wars – 2011 Q1 Edition
Yeap, I have just upgraded to the new Firefox 4.0 b12 and it seems to bring Firefox back in the browser race which was being dominated by Google Chrome (www.google.com/chrome) and Internet Explorer 8 with 9 coming back I have always been against Firefox for being a memory hog, blame me for running many plugins […]
Zend Framework – Auto Loading and Sessions
The journey is still going on, the porting still happening. So what happens when the you need to setup up an autoloader so that you can remove all the include, include_once, require, require_once calls in the different classes. It is also necessary in cases where you need to instantiate a class based on a combination […]
Zend Framework Setup
Like all things to be done, this should be the simplest, just drag, drop and boom a page would automagically appear. Well that only happens in fairy tales, and it seems that we are in the real world over here. The setup seems to be fairly easy, download a copy of the framework, unzip and […]
Zend Framework – The Journey
The development team that I lead is standardizing on Zend Framework (http://www.framework.zend.com) as a development platform. This category of posts will be dealing with the issues that we are running into, and how we are solving them, to help alleviate other people’s pain. We have reviewed a number of platforms, but essentially narrowed it down to […]