This is the second of a five-part series where I highlight some developers who are doing work or espousing practices that make me feel stupid and realize where I need to push my skills towards. Today’s source of inspiration: the man know by many online as Antirez, Italian software developer Salvatore Sanfilippo.
Antirez is [...]

For this upcoming week I am going to be doing 5 blog posts about developers who have been doing work that makes me feel stupid as a developer. The main reason for this is a week spent on introspection as to not only how I am building applications for my employer but also how [...]

If you follow me on Twitter you’ve seen me pissing and moaning about not being able to figure stuff out as I build out my first Zend Framework project in a LONG time. 3 years to be exact. I had two things that I wanted to add to the project: (1) a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]