Tag Archives: Zend Framework

HTML 5, HTTP Methods & REST

Lots of very exciting things are happening right now for us web standards aficionados. The big news is the buzz around HTML 5 and its growing support in modern web browsers (modern meaning not Internet Explorer). The current state of web standards makes it difficult, but certainly not impossible, to use the web as a […]

Tagnabit Usage

It’s been two weeks since we launched tagnabit. I want to share some information about how people have been using tagnabit. Some of the most popular tags used so far include: btv BTV is the airport code for Burlington, Vermont (where we are located). This tag is pretty heavily used on Twitter to represent our […]

Tagnabit Launched!

Last night we announced the launch of tagnabit, a social media aggregator. It’s “a service that aggregates tags from popular social media websites. It is useful for conferences or other events. Participants can use a shared tag across Twitter, Flickr, Technorati, YouTube and Delicious. Tagnabit then aggregates this content in one place.” The idea originally […]

PHP In Google App Engine?

According to the newly posted App Engine Product Roadmap, there are plans to add “support for a new runtime language.” In an email to the Google Apps Small Business Solution Providers mailing list Google had this to say: “Of particular interest, may be payment for additional resource usage and a new runtime language – I […]

Zend_Container Thoughts

It seems that there’s some interest in my Zend_Container proposal including possibly using it as part of Zend_Application. I still need to move Zend_Container from “New” to “Ready for Review” but first I need to add some more details to the proposal. I want to talk about some thoughts on Zend_Container that may be helpful […]

BTV PHP UG Meeting

The Burlington, VT PHP Users Group will be meeting tomorrow night at Bluehouse Group in Richmond. David Walsh of Standards Technology Group (STG) will be giving a demo of STG’s web application. STG will also be providing massive amounts of pizza. Matthew Weier O’Phinney, Software Architect for Zend Framework, will be giving a presentation on […]

Found Line Software License

We recently made the strategic decision to license all software developed by Found Line under the New BSD License. This is a free/open source software license meaning that our clients will have the four freedoms as outlined by the Free Software Foundation. Basically, this means that clients are free “to run, copy, distribute, study, change […]

ZendCon Summary

Rafael Dohms has posted a good summary of ZendCon ’08. He touches on several topics including performance, testing and code analysis, PHP’s integration with other technologies, Zend Framework, and some interesting things to look forward to in 2009 including Ibuildings’ PHP Center of Expertise.

Testing Requirements with Unit Tests

I’m currently working on a project where the client is running their own web server that I will not have direct access to. This is actually a good thing in that it is a nice way to enforce the separation of the development and integration environments from the staging and production environments. However, how do […]

ZendCon 2008

ZendCon 2008 wrapped up last week. This was my first time going to ZendCon and it was definitely worth it. There were over 650 people and over 60 sessions at the Santa Clara conference. I’ll try to post summaries and highlights from the sessions I attended. It was a great opportunity to attended presentations from […]