Pragmatism in today's world

OT: A Bit Wet

An off topic post for this blog, but I thought I should mention that it was a bit wet yesterday and it took me 4 hours to do my usual 30 min commute from work back to home! A couple of pictures show it better: Just after I'd left work: Joining the M50: I got home easily enough – mainly it was a case of taking it easy which wasn't difficult as the traffic was… continue reading.

Russian and Polish Zend Framework Tutorial

A couple of new translations of my Zend Framework tutorial have crossed my desk in the last week. Kubek Bartosz has very kindly created a new up to date Polish version of my Zend Framework tutorial. Alex Musayev has created a Russian translation too. I say this a lot, but I really am still amazed that people think that my little tutorial is worth the effort of translating. Thank you very much guys. I'm sure… continue reading.

Two-Step view in Zend Framework 1.0.0

Paulo Nei wrote an email to fw-general which is, I suspect a very common issue that people are going to run into: Hi, I wanna put header & footer in all view templates. But with ZF I don't got an easy way to do it … At the moment, the Zend Framework doesn't have an "officially blessed" solution, so there are multiple approaches being used: 1. Front Controller plug-in. http://www.nabble.com/Controller-and-View-Question-tf3462561.html 2. Zend_Layout proposal. http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Layout 3.… continue reading.

Zend Framework 1.0 Released

No doubt everyone who reads this blog already knows that Zend Framework 1.0 has been released. My code contribution isn't very large, but I am nevertheless very happy that Zend_Config "just works" for loading and reading configuration data. The MVC system within Zend Framework has come on by leaps and bounds since the first public release and is now flexible, robust and easy to use. One part of the MVC jigsaw that is missing is… continue reading.