Posted by Jon on May 1, 2009 in General | 0 comments
Just a quick post here but my friend Rob Allen of akrabat.com has updated his Zend Framework tutoral to use the new features of Zend Framework 1.8.
This tutorial is intended to give an introduction to using Zend Framework to write a simple database driven application. It has been extensively rewritten for version 1.8 of the framework and takes full advantage of the Zend_Tool command line script and Zend_Application for bootstrapping. Other components used include Zend_Controller, Zend_View, Zend_Db_Table and Zend_Form.
Click here for the full tutorial and source code »
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Posted by Jon on Apr 30, 2009 in Development, General, PHP, Zend Framework | 0 comments
As I’m sure everyone is almost aware by now Zend Framework 1.8 has been released. This is an extra special release for me as I spend two good weeks back in March writing the Ec2 Component after being pinged by Zend to do it.
It was fun writing it and learning more that I ever wanted to know about the Ec2 API’s but all it all it was a great expierice and I’m glad that I got the chance to do it.
Other notable items in the 1.8 release are:
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Posted by Jon on Mar 27, 2009 in Amazon AWS, PHP, Zend Framework | 0 comments
So about two weeks ago Wil Sinclair from Zend pinged me about creating an Zend Framework API interface for Amazon Ec2. I was coming off of playing around with Ec2 for work and figured I would give it a shot. With the proposal filed I began the task of coding it out. After two weeks of writing code I had a working interface for the Query API from Amazon.
I do have to say I learned a lot while doing the inital work and I’m happy that Wil pinged me to do it. If you want to check out the code currently it lives on github but it is on track to make the 1.8 release of Zend Framework.
Please leave a commet here or on the proposal for anything that I may have over looked or if you have any ideas on how I could make it better.
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Posted by Jon on Mar 27, 2009 in Development, PHP, Zend Framework | 0 comments
While watching the Zend Devzone RSS feed they posted a link to an article that talks about using the Etag Header to make ZF more cache friendly to the browser.
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Posted by Jon on Mar 6, 2009 in Amazon AWS, Development | 0 comments
With working on deploying sites on Amazon EC2 we wanted to cut down on the time that it took to sync the sites from our seed servers to the new server. Our logical way to do this was to put a snapshot of the sites are Amazon S3 as a tgz file. Our sites are around 2gb each and while that is no problem to S3 as it max file size is 5gb but in interest of taking less time to upload each site and save on the chance of the file be corrupted on upload we decided to split the files.
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