Pragmatism in today's world

UK Readers: Don't buy petrol from BP or ESSO

This is very off-topic, so feel free to skip! Received a round-robin today via email. As I don't send on such things, I thought I'd mention it here as I'm getting fed up with the price of petrol, especially given the profit that the big oil companies have recently announced: Received from a good friend so leave the rest to you! See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it. We… continue reading.

Zend Framework URLs without mod_rewrite

Some of our Zend Framework applications have to run on IIS without ISAPI_Rewrite installed. In these cases we need urls of the form http://www.example.com/index.php?module=mod&controller=con&action=act. I couldn't get this to work out of the box with Zend Framework 1.5, so wrote my own router called App_Controller_Router_Route_RequestVars. This code obviously only supports what I needed and I've only tested it on IIS for Windows 2003 Server, so you may need to tweak to make it do what… continue reading.