Tag Archives: PHP

Northeast Pools & Spas Website Launch

We just launched the new Northeast Pools & Spas website. I think Dave and Jason did a great job on the visual design and Liz did a fabulous job on organizing and helping to write the content! I worked primarily on the functionality for the construction and portfolio pages. The site is implemented using semantic […]

PHP Users Group Meeting

The next meeting of the Burlington, VT PHP Users Group will be Thursday, August 28th, 2008 at 6pm. Special guest Lee Brimelow, a Platform Evangelist with Adobe and an award-winning interactive designer, will discuss the various ways in which you can integrate PHP with Flash and Flex to create Rich Internet Applications. We will start […]

Draft Zend_Container Proposal

Wow, my draft Zend_Container proposal got a lot more interest than I expected. I want to clarify a few things about this proposal. First, this proposal is still very much a draft. I’ve made a few updates this weekend, so I’d love to hear any feedback you have but keep in mind the proposal is […]

Dependency Injection in Zend Framework

Ibuildings has an article on Dependency Injection and Zend Framework Controllers. In the comments, the Zend_Di proposal is mentioned. I had posted several comments when the Zend_Di component was proposed. Most of my comments were ideas on how to make a dead-simple dependency injection container for Zend Framework. Zend Framework prides itself on simplicity and, […]

Easy Way to Run Web Applications Locally

I’ve been trying out a new way to run web applications on my local machine. Since I work on many different websites I like to be able to run these sites on my local machine. This lets me try out changes locally before committing them to Subversion and rolling them out to a staging or […]

PHP Users Group at VCET

Last night’s PHP Users Group was at the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET) in Burlington. Adam Bouchard gave us a demo of Springloops – a service that helps you deploy web applications (among other things). Rob Riggen and Aaron Carlino gave us a presentation on the Symfony web framework. We had a smaller turn-out […]

Burlington, VT PHP Users Group Subversion Presentation

Here is the Subversion presentation I just gave at the Burlington, VT PHP Users Group: | View | Upload your own

Subversion Presentation at PHP Users Group

I’ll be doing a presentation on Subversion, an open-source revision control system, at this month’s PHP Users Group meeting. The meeting is scheduled for this Thursday, May 22nd from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm at Brown & Jenkins Coffee Roasters. I’ll be talking about reasons to use revision control, the benefits of using Subversion specifically, […]

Google App Engine

Google has just launched a preview release of the Google App Engine. Developers can now create web applications and run them on Google’s infrastructure. This gives developers access to a lot of the same tools that Google uses to build its own web applications including GFS and Bigtable. Unfortunately, it’s only available for Python and […]

Standards

I’m sure everyone has heard the phrase, “The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.” I think we finally have a coding standard for everything we do at Found Line – from PHP to CSS to web file names. We’ve gone through a couple of iterations and various options […]