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  Zend_Application and Zend_Acl

  08.16.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  One of the more frustrating things about using Zend Framework is that for pretty much any topic, there is always at least 2 ways to accomplish a particular task. For a beginner with the framework, this is a humungous barrier to overcome. When I try to implement something, my first question is no longer "how [...]

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  Snakes and Elephants Playing Nice Together: PHPUnit and py.test with Hudson

  07.29.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  These days, it's becoming increasingly harder to find web applications that are homogenous in terms of the tools they use to Get Things Done. The ability to build the web front-end of your site using PHP but a critical part that requires asynchronous processing using Node.js is something that is both exciting and, well, practical. [...]

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  Fun with custom Zend_Views

  06.24.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  The other day I had a nice meeting in my basement lair with my co-workers. We laughed. We cried. We had some BBQ'd burgers, and nobody got food poisoning. As we discussed the implementation of our new fantasy gaming platform, I managed to figure out that one requirement was for an admin to upload a [...]

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  Essential Programming Books: “Building Scalable Web Sites”

  05.28.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Like many old sk00l developers, I like the security blanket a bookshelf full of technical books gives me. Whenever I have a problem, I check to see if I can figure it out using the reference materials on hand. Just looking at my shelves. Since She Who Must Be Obeyed Around Here frowns on boxes [...]

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  It’s The Community, Stupid

  05.26.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I had an awesome time at Tek-X in Chicago last week. It was worth the 8 hour drive to get to Chicago from my basement lair. Of course, it helped that the wait at the border was under 10 minutes both times. There were good talks, but even better *people*. A programming language is only [...]

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