Wireframing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website_wireframe) has been used as a quick prototyping solution to enable the exchange of ideas and discussions on look and feel features, between clients/contractors, visual designers/developers, etc. We have used a number of tools through the years, from Microsoft Word to Microsoft Visio to Adobe Fireworks (graphic representations) or Photoshop, however the latest which […]
Software Development Process – The Journey
I am starting a new set of topics on my experiences in the practical application of the software development lifecyle (SDLC). The tools are as important as the people, however a versatile process will always allow you to change one without the other. My initial exposure to the SDLC was through the Rational Unified Process (RUP – […]
Zend Framework – Page Caching
Well along the Zend Framework journey, the biggest issue now is performance, since the applications run on shared hosting accounts. We have caching enabled for the navigation menus, translation, and even Doctrine queries, however the pages still load slow. Well one of the caching front ends (http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.cache.frontends.html) is the Page front end. The configuration is […]
What is the best PHP Framework?
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]