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Zend_Service_Audioscrobbler Update
09.28.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

In my spare time I’ve been banging away at writing the required unit tests for the Zend_Service_Audioscrobbler component that Derek and I had started. I finished all the unit tests for the user based functions, which is a nice milestone. Then I decided to go back and actually read the comments made from [...]
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There Is Such A Thing As Bad Agile Software Development
09.27.06 | Permalink | Comment?

To make up for the lack of posting, go read this amazing post about Good Agile, Bad Agile. One of the most interesting things I’ve read in a while.
Chris' Brain, PHP
Tutorial: Integrating PHP/SWF Charts with CakePHP
09.26.06 | Permalink | 22 Comments

Many thanks to the CakePHP mailing list for pointing out some really dumb errors I made along the way getting this stuff to work. It turns out that case-sensitivity does actually matter at time.

Okay, for a project at work I was asked to add graphs to some of the reports I'd already created. [...]
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It was a good day for a tutorial…
09.20.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

...until the stuff broke when I moved it into production. *sigh*.

I was going to post a tutorial on how to get PHP/SWF Charts to work with CakePHP. Everything is working okay on my iBook, but when I moved it up to the production server the graphs stop working and I get an error [...]
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Live From php|works Day 3 (Falling asleep at home edition)
09.15.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Well, I made it through the conference in one piece (except for the head cold I picked up from my oldest daughter, and has spread to my wife as well). I also noticed I'm getting lots of love on the web from Cal Evans over at DevZone and some nice posts from the folks [...]