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Monthly Archives: April 2009

Zend Framework: Zend_Locale and Zend_Translate

Personally, I have not yet tried setting up a multi-lingual application. But I’m sure this post would come in handy for me in the future. The article uses Zend Studio for Eclipse and the author used Zend Server 4.0 beta. … Continue reading

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8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs

This is a repost from Hacker News. Click here for the source.

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Zend Framework: Handling custom XML reponses using Zend_Rest_Server

This post assumes that you have read about Zend_Rest_Server in the the Zend Framework manual and my previous posts regarding Zend_Rest: Here and here. My EmprestServer class would have something like this: <?php class EmprestServer { //more code here… public … Continue reading

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Bill Karwin’s SQL Antipatterns Strike Back

I constantly stalk the Zend guys when I am bored. Lol. And I found this new post on Bill Karwin’s blog. The slides can be found here.

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Problems with Zend_Rest. Any ideas? FIXED!

I am stuck with my problem. I am not sure if it is the way I have things set up or it is something else.This works! $rest = new Zend_Rest_Client(’http://mysite.com/api/emp/method/getById/id/1124921/apikey/1234′); $result = $rest->get(); if($result->status()==’success’) { echo $result->emp_id() .’ ‘. $result->emp_shortname().’ … Continue reading

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Zend Framework: A simple Zend_Rest_Server example

A few days back I thought of implementing a RESTful web service. I did not have any idea on how to implement one. So I searched online and found this post. Based on astrumfutura’s post, I created my own “simplified” … Continue reading

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Jquery’s Popularity

 jQuery is way ahead!!!

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Another Assembla / XP-Dev Alternative

C.G. Brown left a comment on one of my posts. He pointed out Project Locker. Long-story short, I like it. It reminds me of Assembla a few years back. Aside from Subversion/Git, the best part is, the have Trac.

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Re-post: Embedding PHP In CSS

This is a re-post from this article. A few years back, I was looking for a way to embed PHP variables in a CSS file. Anyway, the author did it like this: <link href="style.php" rel="stylesheet" media="screen" /> And the CSS … Continue reading

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Almost 3 years old!

The blog is almost 3 years old

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