Monday, June 2nd, 2008
In a previous post I mentioned how Django's model forms are awesome.
I really like the idea of being able to generate forms automatically from models - I mean the models already should contain most of the data you'd need: the fields, field types and how they will be stored.
Since ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Sometimes I've seen people say PHP is a bad first language, because it teaches bad programming habits. But is this actually true at all? Often those who say that don't really like PHP themselves either, many times because of equally untrue reasons.
I think PHP is a perfectly good first programming ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
You 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 ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Install 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 ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
There 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 ...
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
The 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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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
pooQuery, my revolutionary fluent PHP library, has been an interesting project so far.
Don't know what I'm talking about? Read the original post about pooQuery and the look at pooQuery internals.
It has caused some funny reactions from people, and perhaps it's time to officially announce that pooQuery is a joke. A ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
We all know that fluent programming style rocks, and jQuery is a great example of that!
Wel also know that SQL is greatly simplified with fluent style interfaces!
And so are Regular Expressions!
Now it's time for PHP to step in the world of fluency with pooQuery!
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
First,
<insert your favorite holiday greeting here>
Been slightly quiet here now because I've been feeling a bit lazy, but on this time of the year it's allowed, right? ;)
I think I will start posting more regularily again after new years as I'm working on some interesting things.
Now with that out of ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
While possibly a great help and a way to speed development up, are database access classes like Zend_Db and others making people forget about SQL?
ActiveRecord, Table Row Gateway and whatnot, are people trying to constrain their thinking inside the bounds given by these implementations?
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