Should I start blogging?
Thursday, March 27th, 2008This is a question I sometimes hear, in one form or another: Should I start blogging?
Archive for March, 2008
This is a question I sometimes hear, in one form or another: Should I start blogging?
Front-end performance and frameworks
Monday, March 24th, 2008Yahoo has been researching various different techniques for improving website performance. There are a lot of obvious ones, such as making sure images are optimized, JavaScript/CSS is minified and so on. There are also a couple of less known tricks, such as putting JavaScript as the last in the document, and ...
PHP with Microsoft IIS and Microsoft SQL server
Thursday, March 20th, 2008You often hear that using PHP under Microsoft servers is a bad idea, because it doesn't work very well. But is that even true? You guessed it... no. It is actually possible to get a PHP based database application working under IIS and MS SQL Server perfectly fine, it just may ...
Introduction to Zend_Layout (updated for ZF 1.5!)
Monday, March 17th, 2008I wrote earlier a post about the back then new Zend_Layout component in Zend Framework. It's one of my most popular posts, so I think it's about time for me to write an updated version which actually works in ZF 1.5's version of Zend_Layout. We'll look into how to get started ...
Enso: A useful tool or a fancy gimmick?
Saturday, March 15th, 2008I've installed an application called Enso on my laptop. What is it? It's an application, which turns the caps lock key into a small command prompt, which you can use to run various commands, such as calculating, opening applications, controlling windows etc. Enso is a product of a company called Humanized, which ...
Setting up Windows as a PHP development server
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008Install a WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) environment in 4 easy steps, one of which is optional and one of which isn't really a step at all! ;) These days I've been working on Linux servers for a long time, so when I had to install all the things necessary for ...
Tracking the user’s browsing history with PHP
Friday, March 7th, 2008There are various reasons for tracking what an user does: Keeping track of the refering page for forms, so they can be sent back to where they came from Tracking usage behavior for statistics etc. Let's look at how we could implement a simple user tracker in PHP with Zend Framework. I'm going to ...
Doctrine vs. Propel
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008The two most well known ORM frameworks for PHP right now are probably Propel and Doctrine. A lot of people are probably wondering which one should they choose for their project, just like I was. I've used Propel for a while, and now I decided to give Doctrine a shot. Is Doctrine ...
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