Pragmatism in today's world
I'm extremely pleased to announce that there is now a German translation of my Zend Framework Tutorial. I'm still gob-smacked that someone thinks that it's good enough to be worth translating and am very grateful to Daniel Messer for doing it! He intends to host the German version himself when he has his web site organised, so that will be the place to find the latest version and to comment on issues specific to the… continue reading.
Last night, the West Midlands PHP User Group met at The Swan pub in Worcester for some food and a chat. One of the discussions we started, but didn't finish was on directory structures and I thought I'd write down my current thoughts. The Top Level I like to keep everything within a project root directory and the top level directories are quite easy to define: project-dir/ app/ lib/ tmp/ scripts/ www/ Let's consider these… continue reading.
Another minor update with some more bugs fixed. Thanks Holger and Develucas! I've also added an explicit note that the tutorial only works with version 0.1.5 of the Zend Framework. Supporting the development trunk from subversion would be too much work for me! I intend to have a good look at the whole rewrite base thing and see if I can work out what does and doesn't work.
Tomorrow, I go to a (hopefully) final meeting with my client to wrap up the deployment of my first Zend Framework application. It's gone very smoothly as a project all in all and is all over bar the shouting. So what have I learned? In no particular order: Automatic rendering of the template from within the Action's destructor is more hassle than it's worth! It's better to have a render() method and called $this->render() at… continue reading.
Beware this beta! A new theme is in the works and it wasn't ready when beta 2 was released… I use Windows Classic and the tabs are terrible and don't follow my system colours at all. Very very odd. I'm assuming it'll be fixed by the release of Firefox2 as the regression list is long and being tackled. Jed Brown covers the actual problems in more detail. Other than the theme, Firefox2 is shaping up… continue reading.
