Pragmatism in today's world
An incident occurred at a Rails conference recently where pictures of scantily clad women were used on slides. The attitude behind the use of the images disturbs me. To be clear, this is not a Rails issue as I aware of a similar issue in the PHP community and it is prevalent in the the entire IT industry. Martin Fowler has summed up pretty much how I feel about it: The nub is that whatever… continue reading.
Zend Framework 1.8, has been released! To celebrate, I have completely revised and updated my Zend Framework tutorial to support the new Zend_Tool command line tool and Zend_Application for bootstrapping. Let me know what you think :)
Zend_Loader's autoloader has been deprecated in the upcoming Zend Framework version 1.8 and so you now get a notice if you use it: Notice: Zend_Loader::Zend_Loader::registerAutoload is deprecated as of 1.8.0 and will be removed with 2.0.0; use Zend_Loader_Autoloader instead in /www/zf-tutorial/library/Zend/Loader.php on line 207 Notice: Zend_Loader::Zend_Loader::autoload is deprecated as of 1.8.0 and will be removed with 2.0.0; use Zend_Loader_Autoloader instead in /www/zf-tutorial/library/Zend/Loader.php on line 186 Notice: Zend_Loader::Zend_Loader::autoload is deprecated as of 1.8.0 and will be… continue reading.
This post is part of a series about my experiences building a PHP app for Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7 for the European WinPHP Challenge 2009 which is sponsored by iBuildings, Microsoft and Leaseweb. So.. I've decided on a name: SuccesSQL! I can almost hear the groan from here… What can I say? The name appealed to me :) The plan is to write a web based management interface for MS SQL Server databases… continue reading.
This post is part of a series about my experiences building a PHP app for Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7 for the European WinPHP Challenge 2009 which is sponsored by iBuildings, Microsoft and Leaseweb. I finally had some time to finalise my Windows Server 2008 installation. Firstly I fixed a couple of annoyances. I turned off the very stupid "Hide extensions for known file types" option in Explorer. It may make sense for the… continue reading.
This post is part of a series about my experiences building a PHP app for Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7 for the European WinPHP Challenge 2009 which is sponsored by iBuildings, Microsoft and Leaseweb. Installing PHP on IIS is easy once you have download the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0. I had a slight hiccup in that all I got was a blank page with a little yellow triangle at the bottom with "Error… continue reading.
This post is part of a series about my experiences building a PHP app for Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7 for the European WinPHP Challenge 2009 which is sponsored by iBuildings, Microsoft and Leaseweb. One benefit for Microsoft with this competition is that all the participants have to blog about their experiences. This should gain MS some exposure, though I wonder how much will be negative from those of us more familiar with nix.… continue reading.
This post is part of a series about my experiences building a PHP app for Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7 for the European WinPHP Challenge 2009 which is sponsored by iBuildings, Microsoft and Leaseweb. For some insane reason, I decided to enter the WinPHP Challenge and having been accepted, I now need to actually write an app! It's not like I'm not already way too busy or anything… The main reason that I decided… continue reading.
Hot on the heels of my No DiggBar, I've created another extension for WordPress! Shorter Links provides a <link> tag in the <head> section of your page with a shorter url and appropriate tags for use with the new revCanonical system. Further details can be found at laughingmeme.org, shiflett.org or benramsey.com. The link created looks like this: By default, the shorter url is simply {your domain}/{post id}, but the plugin also creates a custom field… continue reading.
The DiggBar is a URL shortening service that puts your website within a frame on digg.com. As a result, the user sees Digg's URL, rather than your URL in their address bar, no matter which page they navigate to on your site. I don't particularly like this, so I've written a small plugin for WordPress that removes it. Go to the No DiggBar page to download it. Tip of the hat to John Gruber for… continue reading.
