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Reusable Sorting for Collection Objects in PHP
These days I find myself working less and less with native PHP arrays, and more and more with Collection Objects – that, as the name suggests – are objects that represent and manage a collection of other objects. Some of … Continue reading
Persisting the Decorator Pattern with Doctrine 2.0
Like a lot of people in the PHP community, I’ve had my eye on Doctrine 2.0 (a great Object Relational Mapping tool for PHP) since I first saw the teaser over 2 years ago. We even started using it in … Continue reading
Module Bootstrapping in Zend Framework
It seems that ever since the 1.8 release of Zend Framework (where they introduced the new application bootstrapping), there has been a lot of discussion about the way that module bootstrapping is handled. I think most programmers, myself included, tend … Continue reading
AddThis javascript error: addthis_efrom is not defined
So all of a sudden, the AddThis button starts giving a mysterious javascript error on all of our CFS Website Service sites. It went from working perfectly to throwing an error, without any change to any of our code. When … Continue reading
Zend Framework: Amazon S3 Component
With the 1.8 release, the Zend Framework has pushed out a number of really awesome components. One that I got to work with recently, was Zend_Service_Amazon_S3. At the time that I started using the S3 component, it was still in … Continue reading
Using PHP’s Imagick class to convert a CMYK jpeg to RGB
We’ve recently converted all of our image processing from using GD to using ImageMagick and one of the biggest stumbling blocks in doing that has been the lack of documentation for PHP’s Imagick class. I ran into a problem when … Continue reading
Javascript Controller
#jscon { font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,Sans-Serif; } #jscon h1, h2, h3 { font-family:Tahoma; font-weight:bold; color:#98C801; padding-top:15px; } #jscon h3 { font-size:18px; color:#98C801; } #jscon p { line-height:24px; } #jscon .code_caption, #jscon .code { border:solid black 1px; margin:6px; width:auto; } #jscon .code_caption { background-color:#777; … Continue reading
Zend Framework 1.6RC
If you don’t frequent the zend framework website you might not have realized that they already have a release candidate for version 1.6 of the zend framework. What’s interesting about version 1.6 (other than the additions to my new friend … Continue reading
Free App: PHP Simple Gallery
Here at the office, when we’ve run into a bottleneck design wise, we’ve used a collection of images to inspire us, mostly in the form of large, slow to open, and hard to share layered PSD resource files. To fix … Continue reading
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