July Slides

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

July was a month of talks and travel, including speaking at OSCON and user group talks to DCPHP and PDXPHP.

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An Intro To Zend_Navigation

Monday, March 29th, 2010

This past week I had the need to integrate Zend_Acl with a navigation and menu system. Unfortunately, the documentation took a couple reads for me to understand how Zend_Navigation worked; given this, I wanted to write a primer that others could use to get started with Zend_Navigation. This is a short guide to how Zend_Navigation [...]

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Why Active Record Isn’t A Bad Design Pattern

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Were I writing this as an article for a newspaper, the subhead would be “Design Patterns Don’t Cause Application Slowness.” The point of this piece isn’t to defend Active Record per se; it’s to discuss the fact that design patterns aren’t to blame for your application’s problems, and more to the point, design patterns aren’t [...]

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Why Every Developer Should Write Their Own Framework

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Lots of people have the itch to write their own frameworks. They think that they can do better than Zend, Cake, Symfony, or application-level frameworks like Drupal. They’re convinced that those designers and developers made fatal flaws, and they can improve upon them. They’re just itching to give it a shot. So for those of [...]

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Five Tips To Make Good Object-Oriented Code Better

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Last week, I did a talk at the Frederick Web meetup about tips and tricks for improving your object-oriented code. A lot of these tips were adapted from a fabulous presentation by Stefan Priebsch but the ideas are by no means original to him, and they’re exceptionally good ideas when you’re talking about object-oriented code. [...]

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