Archive for October, 2008

Zend Framework components as separate zips from the main distro? Sure!

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Did you ever want to use just a single component from Zend Framework, but couldn't figure out which files you needed? Well, here's a solution: Zend Framework packageizer script! Just pick the class you want, and you'll get it and all its dependencies in a nice zip file for you to ...

Making a PDF generator class using Zend_Pdf

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

There are some expensive libraries that you can use to generate PDF files... but why bother with them, when there are good free alternatives like Zend_Pdf? In three steps, you can generate a fancy report: Create a PDF template Insert data to template with Zend_Pdf Profit $$$ Since this is a quite repetitive task, let's ...

Let’s Rickroll MTV Europe Music Awards 2008!

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Okay so this is totally off the usual topics I guess, but this is too awesome to let it fail! Rick Astley has somehow managed to get into MTV Europe's Music Awards 2008 gala in the category Best Act Ever. I suspect /b/ had something to do with this, but... I urge ...