I have som rather large and time con­sum­ing queries run­ning in the Sta­tis­tics screen of an NOC (Net­work Oper­a­tions Cen­ter) Flex/Flash Builder 4 appli­ca­tion i’we been tin­ker­ing with, to pre­vent the data­base server to be boggen down by mul­ti­ple queries fired by this app in mul­ti­ple places I had to imple­ment caching.
And to do this […]

Gior­gio Sironi writes an inter­est­ing TDD story; I am halfway through read­ing Grow­ing object-oriented soft­ware, guided by tests, a book that teaches Test-Driven Devel­op­ment in a Java envi­ron­ment. A review will come soon, since the process described in this work is really language-agnostic and inter­est­ing also for php devel­op­ers.
How­ever, the book’s authors intro­duce a very […]

Ben­jamin Eber­lei writes; Hello every­one,
I com­pleted a first ver­sion of Zend + Doc­trine 1 inte­gra­tion today and want to share it with all you. Since cur­rently the sta­tus on a 1.11 release is unclear I con­tacted all the con­trib­u­tors to var­i­ous Doctrine-related com­po­nents and com­bined them into a sin­gle release and wrote some doc­u­men­ta­tion on […]

Writ­ing main­tain­able code is an art that takes effort and prac­tice to mas­ter.
Part of that art is learn­ing what tools and strate­gies will assist you in that effort. In this tuto­r­ial, we will cover a vari­ety of prac­tices and tools that can make your life, and the lives of your team members, […]

Hav­ing done a lit­tle bit of work with Flash over the past sev­eral weeks there are a cou­ple of things I’ve dis­cov­ered as I’ve worked through some prac­ti­cal exam­ples. There’s only really one thing sign­f­i­cant, but a cou­ple of things that you need to be aware of when doing Flash remot­ing with Zend Frame­work.
via […]

Alek­sey V. Zap­parov posts a very nice solu­tion to a very com­mon ques­tion when deal­ing with Boot­strap resources;
Hello,
You can either reg­is­ter pre­cious resources in reg­istry, e.g.:

pro­tected func­tion _initMyResource()
{
$res = ‘foo­bar’;
Zend_Registry::set(‘myResource’, $res);
return $res;
}

Or you can reg­is­ter the whole boot­strap, so you can place in […]

Rémi Goyard wrote a nice lit­tle class to access your Google Reader Feeds take a peek below, he says;
I finally wrote my own class to retreive data from my Google reader Account (stared items, shared items, …)
The class needs some more work.
Regards
Rémi
< ?php
/**
* Class to retreive your rss feeds used in Google Reader
* thanks […]

Bill Kar­win gives some insight into some work arounds when cre­at­ing func­tions, trig­gers and pro­ce­dures using Zend Frame­work;
MySQL does sup­port prepar­ing some DDL state­ments, even in older ver­sions. See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/sql-syntax-prepared-statements.html
for lists of what state­ments can be pre­pared.
How­ever, some DDL state­ments are still not sup­ported as pre­pared state­ments, for exam­ple CREATE FUNCTION, CREATE […]