A Reflection On Adopting Zend Framework – One Year Later
About a year ago, I was introduced to Zend Framework as the framework I was going to be working with almost every day. And for nearly a year now, every day I have worked closely with Zend Framework,...
View ArticleInterfaces Make Testing Easier
I, along with others, have written on interfaces many times before but recently I had occasion to find a new thing about them that makes them really awesome. A few days ago I was tasked with...
View ArticleRevisiting: Why Every Developer Should Write Their Own Framework
In November of 2009, I wrote about why developers should write their own frameworks. I pointed out at the time that often developing a framework forces developers to make the kinds of architectural...
View ArticleCaching For Efficiency With Zend Framework
One of the things I’m always looking for is ways to improve performance with the applications I write. While a few applications are write-heavy, most are read-heavy: that is, reading the database is...
View ArticleMaking Zend_Navigation Useful
In the last blog post, we discussed creating Zend_Navigation pages and containers. This is certainly wonderful and exciting, but the reality is that for the most part, Zend_Navigation is a pretty...
View ArticleAn Intro To Zend_Navigation
This past week I had the need to integrate Zend_Acl with a navigation and menu system. Unfortunately, the documentation took a couple reads for me to understand how Zend_Navigation worked; given this,...
View ArticleThe Adventures Of Merging Propel With Zend Framework
Recently, I finished my first production-quality Zend Framework application. It was a new website that made use of an old backend that powers another application I wrote using a custom framework. I...
View ArticleLearning Zend Framework: A Case Study
Recently I’ve been immersed into a Zend Framework project in a way that I’ve never been immersed before. This immersion experience has brought out a few thoughts and lessons that I’ve learned through...
View ArticleA Reflection On Adopting Zend Framework – One Year Later
About a year ago, I was introduced to Zend Framework as the framework I was going to be working with almost every day. And for nearly a year now, every day I have worked closely with Zend Framework,...
View ArticleInterfaces Make Testing Easier
I, along with others, have written on interfaces many times before but recently I had occasion to find a new thing about them that makes them really awesome. A few days ago I was tasked with...
View ArticleRevisiting: Why Every Developer Should Write Their Own Framework
In November of 2009, I wrote about why developers should write their own frameworks. I pointed out at the time that often developing a framework forces developers to make the kinds of architectural...
View ArticleCaching For Efficiency With Zend Framework
One of the things I’m always looking for is ways to improve performance with the applications I write. While a few applications are write-heavy, most are read-heavy: that is, reading the database is...
View ArticleMaking Zend_Navigation Useful
In the last blog post, we discussed creating Zend_Navigation pages and containers. This is certainly wonderful and exciting, but the reality is that for the most part, Zend_Navigation is a pretty...
View ArticleAn Intro To Zend_Navigation
This past week I had the need to integrate Zend_Acl with a navigation and menu system. Unfortunately, the documentation took a couple reads for me to understand how Zend_Navigation worked; given this,...
View ArticleThe Adventures Of Merging Propel With Zend Framework
Recently, I finished my first production-quality Zend Framework application. It was a new website that made use of an old backend that powers another application I wrote using a custom framework. I...
View ArticleLearning Zend Framework: A Case Study
Recently I’ve been immersed into a Zend Framework project in a way that I’ve never been immersed before. This immersion experience has brought out a few thoughts and lessons that I’ve learned through...
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