PHP
Move from Eclipse to Netbeans and never look back
July 22nd, 2011
Jasper and I were so seriously annoyed by the spinning beach ball in Eclipse PDT that it was decided to try a switch in editors. I used my free Zend Studio licence to check it out, and he tried Netbeans 7.0. I'm not here to write about the comparison, for me Zend Studio was -not surprisingly, as it's based on Eclipse- even more beach ball prone and quickly tossed aside. (read on for some of my favorite improvements).
PHP Certification (continued)
May 25th, 2011
Well it's official. PHP Certification is feels a lot like getting a tattoo; you never leave it at just one! We (Jasper and I) passed the Zend Framework exam a few months ago, and yesterday is was PHP5.3 time... our rainbow of goodness is now complete
Wrapping your models snugly in ACL interfaces
May 21st, 2011
More and more we're encountering Zend Framework projects where people have written up their own model implementations. Which isn't a surprise of course, as the framework does not include ORM, and the models folder is still empty after running the "zf create project" command...
PHP vunerability in floating point numbers
January 6th, 2011
This morning, we received a notification from Zend, regarding a PHP vunerability.
Magento 1.4 customer bug
February 21st, 2010
I recently blogged that Magento was not all that great; and that once the honeymoon is over and the beergoggles are put down, the world will see it more like it is than what we want it to be.