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 Feb 18, 2009 in Development, IMS, IndyCar Series, PHP | 1 comment
Over at BigBlueHat there is an interesting blog post about using the ?> at the end of php files. While personally I don’t use it on scripts that contain just php code, but I can see where both sides are coming from.
Check out the article and leave your feedback!
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Posted by Jon on Oct 5, 2008 in Development, PHP | 0 comments
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.
Currently it only parses out Id3v1 and Id3v1.1 tags but I’m working on the Id3v2.x support now. If you want to see the source I am publishing it to github.com.
Current usage is like this:
$id3 = new Zend_Id3();
$tags = $id3->analyze('/Id3/_files/demo.mp3');
print_r($tags);
It only returns an array for right now but I’m considering having it return an object so you have easy detection of which variables are there and which ones are not.
I’ll post more when I get more done.
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Posted by Jon on Jun 18, 2008 in Development | 5 comments
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.
To me that is rather annoying to me as I do a lot of AJAX stuff and it requires me to get that link with in the DOM and tell it to blur it’s self (lose focus).
Just yesterday I stumbled across this code on the web while looking for something else:
* { outline: none; }
What this does it tell any object not to have an outline around it.
That works for me.
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