Non-existant fields Zend_Db_Table_Abstract
Dec 20th
I’d run into a problem in the Zend Table where when inserting data from a form, if a field didn’t exist in the database ZF would crap out with an exception. Having to unset posted variables I didn’t need, meant more typing, more typing meant more unnecessary code.
I found the easiest way to get around [...]
Gavin Williams is dead
Dec 19th
No, not me, just my old blog, trying to maintain just one blog is tedious enough, but with the new fishrod site and it’s amazing blog, this and gavinwilliams.co.uk managing them is going to be a task and a half.
As of now gavinwilliams.co.uk now redirects to justanotherdeveloper.co.uk whilst the fishrod blog will aggregate data from [...]
Google Gets Social
Dec 8th
Google seems to have gotten a nice new social facelift, allowing users to rate/rank their personal search results (much like digg) and to provide comments on them, pretty interesting! I wonder how many terabytes of data and bandwidth that’s gonna cost em!
Online Mediation
Dec 8th
A decision by a number of UK internet providers to block a Wikipedia page showing an image of a naked girl has angered users of the popular site.
BBC NEWS | UK | Wikipedia child image censored
This just hit my RSS reader in flock. It’s quite interesting to know that ISP’s are actually blocking websites based [...]
Agile Development
Dec 8th
Working at Channel 4 I’ve been introduced to Agile Development, to sum it up in one sentence…
“It’s a way of working in a development team, where the specification for a project is constantly changing and the waterfall approach (you get a spec, build to it over a long period of time, get feedback and make [...]
Zend_Acl Db Storage
Jul 25th
I’ve spent the last few hours trying to extend Zend_Acl_Role_Registry and Zend_Acl to support Db storage, when it just hit me what I’m actually trying to do, and a much easier way to do it!
JS Lazy Developer
Jul 24th
With JavaScript being taken alot more seriously, we’re seeing a rise in JS best practices, the days when JavaScript would be mocked based upon annoying popup’s, really crap navigation systems that broke in every browser except IE, and seriously disgusting page effects that should stay relegated on people’s myspace pages are pretty much over. JavaScript [...]
{ Publisher Subscriber Pattern }
Jul 24th
A few weeks ago I was introduced to the Publisher Subscriber pattern in JS, pretty much confused by the methodology behind it I decided to give it a go.
The publisher subscriber pattern allows several methods to subscribe to a particular event. Methods and functions can unsubscribe and subscribe to any event at will, this is [...]
Zend Framework and DoJo
Jul 23rd
I pretty much wet my self when ZF announced that they’d be integrating Dojo with the next iteration, and low and behold the first RC was made publicly available a few days ago. I literally dived in head first today, only to find the documentation was some what lacking.
I don’t think the documentation is quite [...]