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Sorting Relationship Results In Doctrine 1.2

02.04.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

I've been building an admin panel for a work project dealing with fantasy sports, and one of the failings of the old version of the overall application was that, well, sometimes it didn't retain the desired display order of players grouped by position. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. A classic case of [...]

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Creating Usable Forms With Zend Framework

01.27.10 | Permalink | 13 Comments

Note: These examples are using Zend Framework 1.9.5, with comes with Zend Server Community Edition 4.0.6 for OS-X
As I begin working on the admin area for a work application being built with Zend Framework, I've been spending a lot of time starting and stopping on it. Why? Chalk it up to the extensibility [...]

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Rallyhat: Playing with CouchDB and Python

01.15.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Many thanks to Jan Lehnardt for helping me out via IM to understand some concepts that I was having problems wrapping my mind around.

Rallyhat is for the most part a programming experiment for me, designed to learn Python *and* produce an web application that is actually usable by someone other than me. One of [...]

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Who Cares What I Think?

01.08.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

So we're at a natural point for reflection. It's the start of a new year *and* the start of a new decade. Despite my wife rolling her eyes talking about this, it is an incredibly exciting time to be involved in web development. Internet time is like dog time, in my opinion: [...]

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What’s In Chris’ Brain – Christmas 2009 Edition

12.22.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

With Christmas quickly approaching, it's time to dump all the junk rattling around in my head and into the blog. I hope you have a great holiday season.
Concurrency is coming, better be ready

The Continuation Mondad in Clojure. Even if you hate Lisp (I'm looking at you, Kevin) or don't give a damn about [...]

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