These are my links for March 5th through March 9th: Sharing Is Caring: 12 Unexpected Examples Of Car Part Prostitution - How car parts are re-used. YTMND - it’s drinking the water - The greatest invention in the world. HearJapan - Japan Nite US TOUR 2009 Sampler - Six interesting free songs fr...

Last year, I did a few reviews of books by Packt Publishing. This year, they got their own back - Packt have asked me to write a book for them called PHP And jQuery. The book is aimed at experienced PHP programmers who are interested in adding a bit of client-side magic to their sites. jQuery is use...

The conference day.  We woke up early to get in queue at registration which opened at 08:30.  When we got to the Olympia Conference Center, which was about 5 minutes walk from our hotel, it was full of people.   More than a hundred people already, and we were early.  Got our badges and notepads...

It seems everyone, myself included, has a bit of a hard time first grasping Zend_Acl. For the time being, I’ve settled on a simple solution. It’s party based on the solution given in the Zend Framework in Action book. I hope you get some use out of it....

I spent part of my day at work code-monkeying HTML. I needed to create a table. Not a plain, simple table, not exactly. But a table. With headers. And column spans. This should be simple, right? Wrong. I had a webpage that looked… terrible. (There, that’s a polite word for it.) It needed...

Am văzut zilele astea o gramadă de articole adresate împotriva Smarty (sistemul de templates pentru PHP). Exista până și un site dedicat împotriva Smarty. Pentru mine Smarty a însemnat o adevărată revelație prin anii 2003-2004, marcând un punct de cotitură asupra felului cum scriu cod P...

A friend of me pointed me to an issue in the Agavi issue tracker titled "Fucking Debian fucking ruined their fucking PHP package once again, and now we need to waste fucking time to fucking fix it)". The issue is quite related to earlier discussions with the Red Hat folks about bundling a timezone d...

By Jason Lengstorf PHP and other server-side programming languages are tricky. The manual can be tough to decipher, and there isn’t really a way to “validate” a PHP script. If you’re new to programming, you may lost and not know where to look for help. When I first started pr...

A friend of me pointed me to an issue in the Agavi issue tracker titled "Fucking Debian fucking ruined their fucking PHP package once again, and now we need to waste fucking time to fucking fix it)". The issue is quite related to earlier discussions with the Red Hat folks about bundling a timezone d...

Last year, I deployed a new tool to manage symfony plugins. The first goal of this tool was to simplify the process of contributing new plugins. It proved to be very successful, and I had a good feeling that the plugin creation rate was rising since then. And yesterday, I wanted to have hard numbers...