So this is not going to come as much of a shock to people experienced with CakePHP, but I’m just learning now and liking what I’m seeing. CakePHP 1.3 has a really nice set of conventions to work against and provides a seemingly pretty good scaffold for most typical webapps, so I’m thinking I’ll be [...]

Posted on May 30th, 2010 by herbcso
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So I wanted to write about my woes with PHP ZendDebugger and the latest WAMP install. Bottom line: I can’t get it to work with PHP 5.3 yet. I believe this is an incompatibility in the debugger DLLs that I have been able to find for 5.3 – looks like the linkers used are incompatible [...]

Posted on April 6th, 2010 by herbcso
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Alright, so while the to Zend or not to Zend question is still under debate, I’m also looking at some AJAX-y goodness. There are several I’m looking at. Now, please do keep in mind that this is my personal preference only and does not reflect a wider standard. These are my opinions related to what [...]

Posted on April 25th, 2008 by herbcso
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I am currently evaluating whether to use the Zend framework in the development of the site. Any suggestions/feedback/practical experience sharing welcome. I don’t want to get myself tied down to a large, cumbersome and potentially inflexible framework (which Zend at least claims not to be, but not having used it yet, I’m not so sure).

Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by herbcso
Filed under: coding, frameworks, zend | 1 Comment »