An Introduction to Lean Thinking
Lean software development, which we hear a lot about these days, may be still a bit of a mystery for people who come to Agile via Scrum or XP. ... more »
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How to Evaluate a Good Fit for XP?
Many Agilists believe that Agile is not for everyone. Some people do not fit well into the Agile philosophy and bring negative undercurrents to the... more »
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Multilingual Websites with PHP
Why think about multilingualism? Most developers bring up this question when asked about their websites. The common problem is that you do not matter... more »
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Full I18N with ysfDimensionsPlugin
One of the recurring concern when developing an internationalized application, is to not let any element untranslated. This is natively complicated,... more »
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Improving the performance of Zend_Controller
Zend_Controller_Router_Rewrite is the standard framework router. It takes a URI endpoint and decomposes it into parameters to determine which module,... more »
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Macro Annotations
In my spare time, I am working on a framework that will allow you to declaratively map a data model to a bitstream representation, with support for... more »
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GlassFish refcard is available for download for free
In case that you are a glassfish administrator or a developer who uses glassfish in day to day development tasks then you will find GlassFish... more »
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Hacking the Core of the Zend Framework
So, I’ve been hacking the core of the Zend Framework again, this time the Zend_Controller component. I spent a couple of hours monitoring the... more »
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Doctrine 0.11.1 and 1.0
Today we have released a new version, 0.11.1. As with all point releases it is a bug fix only release. With over 81 tickets closed, this is definetly... more »
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Localization with Spring 2.5
In Spring 2.5 you can tell in your dispatcher servlet configuration to scan for @Controller annotations. That way you don’t configure URL mappings... more »
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Foreign key's onDelete for dummies
Any modern relational database engine supports the onDelete and onUpdate attributes on foreign keys. Propel and Doctrine of course allows to define it... more »
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Interruption Driven Development
Scrum talks about having minimum disruptions during the sprint so that the team can work effectively in achieving their target. The Scrum master, is... more »
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Looking in to Erlang
I’ve putzed around with it before, went through some example code, etc., but yesterday picked up the “Programming Erlang” book from Pragmatic... more »
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Details make the difference
While playing around with the Zemanta API today, I bumped into a small problem. I first attempted to do it in symfony using the sfWebBrowserPlugin,... more »
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Comparing Propel, Doctrine and sfPropelFinder
When it comes to ORMs, it's all a matter of preference. Is it, really? This post compares side-by-side the code required to perform some simple... more »
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How to call linux shell commands from php script
The other day I wanted to convert MS Word document to text on my VPS. I knew that someone somewhere has already written a program to do just that, and... more »
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Random CSS Thought: Margin-collape CSS property
I was recently introduced to the phenomenon of margin collapsing. If you didn’t click the link, this is what it does: When you have two elements with... more »
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Mysql Error
I was running an import script today taken from a mysqldump from another user, when I saw an error that looked like this: ERROR 1005 (HY000) at... more »
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Lots of activity in the phoneME Advanced project
It's amazing how community activity tends to develop its own dynamics. Over the last few weeks there has been a surge of things happening in the... more »
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Book Review: Learning jQuery
Packt sent me a copy of “Learning jQuery” by Jonathan Chaffer and Karl Swedberg. jQuery is a javascript library that I have been using on and off and... more »
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Zend_Form Performance Issues
If you are using Zend_Form and your site increases in complexity and attracts more traffic, you are most likely to run into performance problems.
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A week of symfony #79 (30 june -> 6 july 2008)
After months of development, symfony published its long-awaited 1.1.0 version during this week. Furthermore, symfony project achieves its maturity... more »
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PHPImpact: Which PHP framework is slower?
There has been some allegations that PHP frameworks are slow, specially by those who used them to develop high-traffic Web sites. And lets be honest,... more »
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Doctrine 1.0 and symfony 1.2
This morning Fabien from the symfony project announced the roadmap for the next major version of symfony, 1.2. He announced that Doctrine would be... more »
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symfony 1.2 roadmap
As symfony 1.1 is now out of the door, it's time to talk about the next symfony version. 1.1 was a very special version for the symfony framework.... more »
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