Vodacom pours investment into Zoopy
Jun 26, 2008 4:16:35 PM
As was officially announced this morning, Vodacom has acquired a 40% stake in Zoopy, the social media website where I am a developer. It's been a busy day, primarily spent monitoring our new servers to make sure that they handled the load brought on by the announcement, but the office has been buzzing with excitement about the opportunities that this is going to bring to Zoopy.
Compound elements with Zend_Form
Jun 17, 2008 4:51:57 PM
Zend_Form can save you a lot of time. It almost completely abstracts away the most boring and error-prone aspects of developing secure and standards-compliant HTML forms. But one thing it doesn't do out of the box is compound elements, such as three-field dates. In this post I'll show you the easiest way to do this ZF-style.
Seven reasons why I hate Javascript, and (the same) seven reasons why I love it
Jun 14, 2008 2:22:19 PM
Javascript has been in the news recently in a Zend Framework context. As a developer who's always focused on efficient and secure backend code, I've always had issues with Javascript: it's slow, and you have to deal with maddening inconsistencies across browsers. But as much as I can't stand using it, I can't deny the richness that it can bring to web-based user interfaces. Here, then, are seven reasons why I both love and hate Javascript.
Analysis of coupling within the Zend Framework
Jun 5, 2008 10:10:16 PM
One of the Zend Framework's strongest drawing cards, as I see it, is its loosely-coupled structure. The name Zend Framework may be a misnomer, in fact, as ZF is more a set of reusable libraries than an actual application framework. I won't go into detail about the advantages of loose coupling, but a recent discussion on the ZF mailing list prompted me to investigate just how loosely coupled the framework is.
