jQuery UK conference
I don’t consider myself a front end developer by a long stretch, however, I believe any web developer worth their salt should be versed in technologies both server and client side. Back when I started...
View ArticlePHP UK Conference
In late february I attended the annual PHP UK Conference hosted by the chaps that run the PHP London user group and sponsored by Automattic. I had a great time at the two day event and got to catch up...
View ArticleDrive Forms from Doctrine Entities
FormFactory – Driving Doctrine 1.2 / 2.x Mappings into Zend_Form objects On a few of my previous projects I found myself creating more form classes than I’d like. And after the 30th one I figured there...
View ArticleIn ORM’s Defence
For some reason, as of late, I can’t seem to attend any user group or conference without a speaker slating ORM’s. Several speakers at the PHP UK Conference this year expressed their disapproval, as...
View ArticleZend Paginator Example
One of the reasons why zend framework has been so popular is due to all the hard work put in to make sure components are extremely configurable. Sure there are default behaviours, but nothing is...
View ArticleThe Enum Conundrum
So a user signs up and I want to store a status that reflects their account, or at least an identifier representing that status. Their account could be active, disabled (temporarily), pending approval...
View ArticleGlobal installation of Composer on windows
I’ve been tinkering with composer recently (on windows) and I noticed there was no simple way to install it system wide. Typically the composer.phar would live within the root of your project directory...
View ArticleYou could be the next Miles Dyson
Back in February I attended the PHPUK Conference in london. There were some great talks on offer, one of the most inspiring being Ian Barber’s Teaching your machine to find fraudsters. It can be caught...
View ArticleLooking for ambitious tech recruiters
I’m one of those techie people that you’re always trying to sell. I’ve worked heavily for several years on “Back office” development. My code kung fu is impeccable and I can riff out Metallica’s master...
View ArticleIs a HTTP DELETE request idempotent?
Recently I had a read of an interesting post by Lukas Smith (@lsmith) about the use of the DELETE method when building RESTful services. I wanted to get my thoughts down on this. Mostly to help myself,...
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