Archive for May, 2009

Update for Markdown and GeSHi

Posted in php on Sunday, May 17th, 2009. Comments Off

Since I have started using the Zend Framework, I have noticed a limitation in the Markdown parser. As there is classes with names such as Zend_Form_Decorator_Fieldset, and Markdown replace everything between underscore with emphasis, they get rendered like this: ZendFormDecorator_Fieldset. So I have switched to PHP Markdown Extra which fix this, and I have [...]

Twitter is down, who cares

Posted in php on Friday, May 15th, 2009. Comments Off

One of the component in the Zend Framework that I’m learning to love lately is Zend_Http_Client. If I remember correctly, back in the days, my first reaction on this component was:

Oh, this is for just for those who don’t know how to use curl_* functions. I don’t need that, pff

Then somebody, trying to [...]

SubYT

Posted in php on Monday, May 11th, 2009. Comments Off

I’ve just started building a niche video website for West Coast Swing to play with GitHub and the Zend Framework (v1.8).

The source code is available at github.com/danceric/subyt and the test website is at video.liveyourdance.com.

Please keep in mind that this is just a work in progress.

Zend Server Community Edition on OS X

Posted in php on Saturday, May 9th, 2009. Comments Off

One of the easiest (ie: fastest) way to have a fully working LAMP development environment on OS X is to install Zend Server, which is a package containing apache/php/mysql/zend framework and some other goodies

There is a free version available on the Zend Server Community Edition web page

One thing you might want to do after the [...]

ZCE Study Guide

Posted in perso, php on Saturday, May 9th, 2009. Comments Off

Last week –after seven years of PHP– I have read php|architect’s “Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide, 2nd Edition.” I think that it will be a useful tools on my resume to have a PHP certification. More often than not, the HR peoples don’t trust applicants without a certification.

My first discovery was: On page 9-10, [...]