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Be a better {web} programmer: Part 1, Good Habits

August 28th, 2008

Anybody can write code and with a few months of programming experience, everybody can write ‘applications’. Getting them to work is easy, but making them scalable and maintainable requires more work.  Based on my experience in web development I’ve come up with these conclusions:

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PHP performance tips around the web

July 29th, 2008

If you search for the topic “php performance” in the search engines probably you will get what

you need on the first page. During my investigations around the web I had colected some not so visible and very useful posts and presentations: Continue reading

Should we use Object-Relational Mapping tools ?

June 19th, 2008

Object-Relational Mapping tools have been in use for very long time. Till 2005  they were implemented and used widely most in Java enterprise world. Ruby on Rails and its famous implementation of Active Record pattern changed that rule and now we can use ORM solutions in all web developing languages. Continue reading

Loading Smarty on Demand in Zend Framework

June 18th, 2008

My last projects are all build with Zend Framework and almost all of my previous projects were created with custom framework using Smarty. I wanted to implement Smarty in Zend Framework and I search through the web to find proper resolution for my problem. I found this article and another one inspired by the first. I tested both approaches but they were not what I was looking for. Inspired by both articles I created my own Smarty - Zend framework implementation.
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Popular PHP Frameworks for everyday use

June 11th, 2008

During my almost three years in web development i have tested and worked for various projects  with several PHP frameworks. Every framework has its power features and of course drawbacks. Out there they are many more other frameworks but these for me are the so called mainstream frameworks. After that little introduction lets begin with… Of course CakePHP.  Continue reading

Under Construction !

June 3rd, 2008

I am currently designing my blog. Very soon it will shine with full glory !

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