I have worked on a Zend Framework these past couple of days and needed the ability to display a users avatar. This is easy by using Automattic’s gravatar project. The easiest way to add a users avatar is to use a (this) view helper. Basically in your view you just pass the [...]

Yesterday I had the great opportunity to here Raphael Mudge the creator of AtD present After the Deadline at DC PHP.  Below is a recording of the talk.  I hope to write some more about AtD after I play around with it more.

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So a couple of days ago I posted a way to get the DB profiler working via your bootstrap but an easier way to get things working is via your configuration .ini file.
Once again you need Firefox, FireBug, and FirePHP. Then in your .ini file add the following lines;

resources.db.isdefaulttableadapter = true
resources.db.params.profiler.enabled = true
resources.db.params.profiler.class = [...]

Just got down reading chapter 3 of the free Zend Framework book called “Surviving The Deep End.“  Chapter 3 was about models and was very informative.  Many developers have different views on what the model should do. I am in total agreement with this description of a model in the book.  I love the [...]

So this Seven things chain has been going around the web lately and I have finally been tagged. I was tagged by the Joomla! god who keeps all those planes in the air with his sophisticated software algorithms.
Seven things about me you may or may not know;

I used to swim competitively – I swam [...]