2008: The year in review
January 1, 2009 by Jon | 1 Comment »
It seems that everyone is doing this so I will join in.
In short my year was this:
- Attended 4 IndyCar Series Races (Indy, Belle Isle, Kentucky, Mid-Ohio)
- Watched all the other IndyCar Series Races on TV.
- Attended one NASCAR and MotoGP Race at IMS.
- Worked with Zend on the Zend Framework Certification
- Attended my first (but not last) ZendCon
Zend Framework 1.7.0 Released
November 19, 2008 by Jon | 2 Comments »
That’s right ZF 1.7.0 has been release and it features AMF support, JQuery support, and Twitter support, among numerous other offerings.
Twitter Service for Zend Framework
November 16, 2008 by Jon | No Comments »
After almost 2 months of work I am happy to have Zend_Service_Twitter included into the standard trunk for Zend Framework. Currently Zend_Service_Twitter is schedule to be included in the 1.7 release.
Zend_Id3
So while working with out dated libraries to fetch id3 tags I deiced to try and write my own Id3 Tag parser and of course I figured why not share it with the Zend Framework Community. I have crated the Zend_Id3 Proposal and I have started initial coding on it.
PHP implemented in 100% Java
August 9, 2008 by Jon | 1 Comment »
Quercus allows developers to incorporate Java code into PHP web applications and gives both Java and PHP developers a fast, safe, and powerful alternative to the standard PHP interpreter.
Adobe to contribute AMF support to Zend Framework
Adobe has made a proposal for an AMF (Action Message Format) component in Zend Framework. This ZF component will allow for client-side applications built with Flex and Adobe AIR to communicate easily and efficiently with PHP on the server-side. Leading the design of the component for Adobe is Wade Arnold. Wade already has a track record of bringing the Adobe RIA technologies to PHP as a result of all of his work on AMFPHP.
PushUpTheWeb.com: Browser detection and Upgrading
Nick Stakenburg is beating the drum of getting users to upgrade their browsers, and has created PushUpTheWeb.com.
Pushup is an effort to push the web forward by helping users update their outdated browsers. Give your users a better web experience today by installing Pushup on your domain!
Migrating OOP Libraries and Frameworks to PHP 5.3
Over at Phly, boy, phly, Zend Framework coder Matthew Weier O’Phinney, talks about issues with implementation of namespacing in PHP 5.3 and the coding standards of Zend Framework
Building Admin Tools With JavaScript and PHP
So part of my job at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is writing Admin Tools for our users to administer the sites with. There are a mix of older admin tools which don’t use any JavaScript and newer admin tools where the front end is completely based on JavaScript.
I was recently asked to build an admin tool to allow one of our users to maintain the drop down portions of the site navigation since they can change with each passing event that happens at the track.
Disable Firefox Dotted Line around Links
O.K. so Firefox is an awesome browsers but it has a rather annoying feature that I’ve been trying to disable for some time now. When ever you click and hold on a link it put’s a dotted line around the link and then leaves it there after you have clicked on the link.