What would you like to read about on CodeUtopia?

June 2, 2009 – 11:07 pm

I haven’t had much ideas to write about lately, so how about this: You, my dear readers, get to tell me your favorite topic that you’d like to read/learn about.

Is there a specific topic you would like me to write about? As long as it’s somewhat relevant to this blog’s past content, post your idea to the comments! - I just might pick your idea and write about it. I even might pick more than one.

It doesn’t matter if it’s a small thing or a large thing. If it’s interesting, it’s good! It can be a general topic, like Zend Framework or design patterns, or some more specific thing like “how to do X”

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29 Responses to “What would you like to read about on CodeUtopia?”
Hi
How about a simple app using Zend_Auth and Zend_Acl, using Zend_Db for authentication but not in the context of a ZF app, just a simple standalone app for using independently.

Cheers
Ricardo

By Ricardo Simao on Jun 3, 2009
Hello,

I want to start out freelancing and I keep reading the advice about starting out in a niche area of web developement, opposed to building a website. Suggestions for niches I came across are:
- WordPress Templates
- Slicing ie PSD -> XHTML

Now my questions are:
a) What other Web Development/Web Design niches do you consider worthwhile?
b) Do you consider providing PHP HTML forms a suitable niche?

cheers,
Joe

By Joe on Jun 3, 2009
@Joe, Really Joe if you asked me you need to start creating a portfolio mate. Also PHP forms will not get you far. I have actually tried to freelance along those lines and didn’t get real far. Not too much work for it. The best thing to do is keep building your portfolio and learning PHP (or something similar) along with javascript since it is becoming a must have in Web 2.0 era. Keep an eye out on feelance sites for jobs that you can do and see if you can land them. Good Luck!

Hey Jani, as for what I wanna see I would really love for you to do an in depth tutorial (with images or video) on how to create a ‘map’ with a moving target. Like you did with gidgetcity but if you can make a tutorial about how to make a browser based “game” that moves with user input. I’m having trouble understand how to do something like this. I see people doing it. I seen one game I think was made with php/css and it updated the players location when he moved. If you don’t understand what I’m asking just hit me up on IRC.

By CodeJustin on Jun 3, 2009
Hi… I would like to see solutions that are more usual in a enterprise environment, for example like exposing and consuming web services with soap, encription, xml transformations (xslt), validate schemas, use of ws standards (ws-* like ws-security, ws-transaction, etc.)

and thanks for you great blog!
regards.

By vcardenas on Jun 3, 2009
I would like to see an article on how to write reusable Zend Framework modules. See http://jazzslider.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/distributing-zend-framework-modules/

By ejunker on Jun 3, 2009
I would really like to see a good article about single-sign-on integration with the Microsoft AD/any LDAP directory and a PHP application, preferrably ZF based

By zemiak on Jun 3, 2009
I would really like to see you explain the Zend_Application. If you can give a rundown of everything that can be put in the bootstrap file. Currently I haven’t figured out yet how to store my ini settings in the registry

By jaco on Jun 3, 2009
Testing, testing and testing.

By Sudheer on Jun 3, 2009
I’d like to see some more articles on game programming. I found your Widget City posts very interesting. It would be great if you could explain other parts of the code

By Richard on Jun 3, 2009
Definately design patterns. I have learned so much from your design pattern articles.

Thanks!

By Wouter Bulten on Jun 3, 2009
An real-life article about the new routing features of the Zend Framework would be awesome, just an idea.

Great Blog, keep going!

By supergirl on Jun 3, 2009
how to make and implement a xml rpc server instead of all that database action for an admin system. i am working on a big backend for a lot of tools and using zend framework. my goal is not to rely on straight database access.

somehow you have managed to touch pretty much every question i have had except that one.

By paivi on Jun 3, 2009
i’d like to see article about zend_amf server, zend_xmlrpc server or zend_rest server with new convention zend_application (with all configuration in for example ini file)

By melon on Jun 3, 2009
Thanks guys/gals, there’s already some here that I think I’ll use in the coming days. Keep ‘em coming =)

By Jani Hartikainen on Jun 3, 2009
Hi,

I will like to read more about the zend framework with doctrine ORM , I think this is an interesting subject.

Thanks

By Federico Arriola on Jun 3, 2009
I’d love to see here something like “how to debug you ZF application using Eclipse and XDebug/ZendServer CE/…”

Also the Zend_*_Server tutorials would help How to implement it in a real-life example.

By Tomáš Fejfar on Jun 3, 2009
I think the series of articles about design pattern would be great because it seem be advance technique

By Thang on Jun 4, 2009
How about creating a system similar to Rails’ database migrations for Zend Framework or perhaps for Doctrine ORM.

By ejunker on Jun 4, 2009
Hello Jani

I’d be interested to see your take on a plugin/extension system within Zend Framework. Possibly using some kind of events so that I can hook into an application.

I would use this to write custom functionality for a specific customer (i.e. paid custom enhancements) and can’t see an easy way to hook into existing functionality.

By David Caunt on Jun 5, 2009
Hi Jani!

As Sudheer said: testing. I still need to put myself onto figuring that out (OK, so I am a bit lazy :P), so some bigger examples would be kinda awesome maybe on how to test our own class/function, how to test a ZF controller and maybe how to test ZF components so more of us could contribute? Maybe a series of posts on this?

Have a nice day

By Robert on Jun 5, 2009
(Almost) everything you write about Zend Framework are interesting. Especially those little tips and tricks that are quite obvious when you see them but that can be hard to come up with by yourself.

By Gustaf on Jun 5, 2009
Well, just wrote a post on unit testing, and I’ll be writing at least two more I think

Feel free to post more ideas!

By Jani Hartikainen on Jun 5, 2009
Good news, you wrote about unit testing. I will look forward for the series. Thanks.

By Sudheer on Jun 6, 2009
I would love to read something about projects you’re currently involved with

By Hany Rashwan on Jun 10, 2009
here is an hard one: i already tried to create an browser adventure game with javascript, moving right to left is easy but moving into the depth of the picture is really hard to achieve cause the size of the figure has to change, so my wish is a turorial (a series of tutorials, about howto create a javascript adventure game )

By chrisweb on Jun 12, 2009
How about an article about method naming convention/how to write good function names.

By Joe Devon on Jul 4, 2009
Hi,

I’m a newbie and I learnt so much from your blog.
Thanks a lot for sharing.

I came across this framework that based on ZF, named P4A - PHP for Applications (http://p4a.sourceforge.net).

What makes this framework interesting to me is that it allow us to focus on the coding part.
And not so much on HTML, javascript, etc.

Maybe you can have a look and review it ?

Thanks!

By Setiawan on Oct 13, 2009