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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Joomla Nested Category Issues – Round 2 – Multiple Sections in Blog Layout

Well the problem still stands, my client has 3 levels of content and Joomla 1.5 only supports 2. We have gone through most of the solutions: Joomla 1.6 – totally unusable given the time and technical constraints, Content Construction Kits (CCKs) like JSebold (http://www.jseblod-cck.com/) bring on more complexity than the CMS itself Move to WordPress […]

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Joomla 1.5 – Nested Category Issues

The things clients make you go through … We have been working on a rush magazine job using Joomla (http://www.joomla.org) , and all was fine until the client brought out their “Mind Map” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map) essentially a representation of the information architecture for their site. And like no other, they had 3 and 4 levels of […]

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Browser Wars 2010 – Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome

Almost 85% of the Internet population uses the top 3 browsers which are as different as they are similar. I do love and hate each of them in their own ways. Internet Explorer Has improved since IE 6 which as a web designer is the worst thing that happened to the Internet IE 8 I like, its […]

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Intuit Websites using Sitebuilder by Homestead – Proxy Servers

If you are developing or updating a site hosted by Intuit Websites (http://www.intuit.com/website-building-software/)  you need to be careful when publishing behind a proxy. It seems that the software does not connect to the servers if its behind a proxy, so you need to disable the proxy or find a connection which does not use one […]

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WikiLeaks – Is this turning into a civil war?

Just watching the countinued cat-and-mouse game between wiki-leaks, governments, and large corporations, its starting to seem like the beginnings of a civil war on the Internet, probably the first Internet world war. ISPs, Credit Card Companies, Banks, Radio stations, individuals, are all being targeted. I am sure that underneath all of this the collateral damage […]

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