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Improve Eclipse Editor (HTML/CSS)

I’ve been having problems with editing html and css files in Eclipse for quite some time now, even when I’m using the latest version of Eclipse, Galileo, and the latest version of PDT. Typing constantly lags, and just typing a short string sometimes takes around 12 seconds to appear. My machine is no wuss either, [...]

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Upgrading to Symfony 1.4 from PEAR based 1.2

I’ve been working on a project, which started on 1.2.7, for almost 6 months now and have been upgrading it religiously along the 1.2.x branch which stopped at 1.2.10. We’re currently entering the testing stage, and being as curious as I am opted to create a 1.4 branch from the current trunk and started the [...]

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Symfony Doctrine or Propel

Been giving this alot of thought lately. What to use for my next project. Ever since symfony 1.2′s move to Propel 1.3, the major argument of speed against Propel has been solved with its migration out of creole and into PDO. So speed is definitely at par with Doctrine, but the curious side of me [...]

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Symfony Forms Tutorial: Quick Registration Form

I was initially skeptical about these numerous form frameworks that are coming out, I would initially opt to create forms and validations the old fashion way, but after giving symfony forms a shot; I can honestly say i’m converted! Lets start the tutorial by creating a basic registration form with a captcha. I would assume [...]

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Hands on Usage of ZF 1.8.x

Well that was fast, new maintenance release of Zend Framework is now out! Checking out the changelog, noticed this little gem: Addition of module generation capabilities to Zend_Tool; I posted about that in my initial thoughts of ZF 1.8 post.

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Thoughts on the new Zend Framework 1.8

Been playing around with the new version of Zend Framework (1.8). The command line Zend_Tools has alot of potential and is very useful for newbies, but still lacks a lot of functionality (support for modules in the command line would be pretty cool!). I loved the Application/Bootstrap approach this puts a lot of much needed [...]

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Zend Framework Model Based Validation Part 1

I’m not really a big fan of Zend_Form, too verbose and less flexible. I’ve been using this little base class for several of my freelance projects. It basically allows you to define validation rules for your model’s columns. This is a very basic version that I’m planning to enhance soon with custom validation functions. Download [...]

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Simple Pagination

I use alot of Zend Framework for my freelance projects and prior to version 1.6 they have no pagination class to do the dirty work. I know what you’re thinking right now, why didn’t I just reused some of the many pagination scripts in the internet and/or in PEAR. I just really needed something simple [...]

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Oh no its PHP!!!

A few months ago I was doing some job hunting and i’ve come across some interesting job interviews in the process. Now I have a good mixture of full-time work and freelance work, and most of my freelance work consists of enterprise PHP web applications; while my full-time work primarily consists of J2EE and Oracle. [...]

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