I’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 was founded by Aza Raskin, who is the …
Setting up Windows as a PHP development server
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 PHP development on Windows, I realized it isn’t necessarily …
Tracking the user’s browsing history with PHP
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 write a bit of the theory …
Doctrine vs. Propel
An updated version of this post is available: Doctrine vs. Propel 2009 update 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 …
Fluent PHP and pooQuery revisited
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 fully functional joke, which I’ve just updated – …
The human interface
I apologize for the lack of posts lately. I haven’t had access to a computer or time to think about anything interesting to write lately, as I’ve been doing my civil service. Anyways, let’s post something now! As a long time computer user, I’ve used many different user interfaces, both software and hardware. The typical hardware you have are the …
The ultimate developer kit
I got myself a laptop, and it’s always kind of annoying to “start from scratch” – install all the applications you need, set up the browsers, set up email, install entertainment (codecs for movies, games)… Since I didn’t have anything installed, and I kind of want to save space on the laptop as it doesn’t have gazillions of gigabytes of …
Impressions on WordPress
So I’ve been using WordPress as my blogging platform for a while now. As a matter of fact, this is my 48th post with WP. I had only heard good things about WordPress before installing it, but how has it worked out?
A look at pooQuery internals
I have received some questions regarding pooQuery (pQ from now on)… Does this really work? How does it do all this? Short answer: Yes, it does work, and what makes it tick is magic… or not, so let’s look at the tricks behind fluent languages.
pooQuery – The Fluent PHP Revolution!
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!