Recently I have been experimenting with the Zend Framework to look into it’s potential to be used in my future applications. Having been a symfony junkie for the last couple of years I was reluctant to try and use it, but I see that it has come a long way since last using it. I’m […]
Lately I have been doing alot of Java development especially in regards to web service development and consumption. One of the tools that I have relied on heavily is the JAXB project to consume and create XML feeds. This has been a godsend and made my life easy when parsing and creating XML. By just […]
There may be a time when you need to deal with passing polymorphic objects back and forth between PHP’s SoapClient and a SOAP web service. Things are nice and easy (work as expected) when you are retrieving these objects from a service. But, when it comes time to pass these objects back…well…it’s not as simple […]
When delving into the magical world of trying to get a PHP SoapClient to consume a Java JAX-WS web service, there may be a few unexpected surprises that pop up. If you have been using SoapClient to communicate with other PHP SoapServer service, things are pretty straightforward. However, things get slightly more complicated when trying […]
Sometimes you may come across a situation where a core piece of your PHP is doing some sort of intensive algorithm or something else which is just taking way to long.
Recently I had this problem with an application which I was developing. Essentially I was redesigning an existing application that needed to be able to […]
Awhile ago I wrote a post on how to create custom tasks in symfony 1.0. A reader posted a question on how to do this in symfony 1.1. At first I figured out a solution of how to do it manually, but then I discovered this tutorial on the symfony cookbook section: http://www.symfony-project.org/cookbook/1_1/en/tasks which describes […]
Whenever I am using a Windows desktop and I need to connect to various servers via SSH, I use PuTTY. It’s lightweight and gets the job done without any problems. However, the one problem has always been that I may have 10 different instances open and it’s a pain in the ass to switch between […]
Previously, I wrote a post on how to store user sessions in a database using Doctrine. I figured that I would follow it up by writing this article to demonstrate how to do the same thing using Propel. The steps are pretty much similar, but with some slight variations.
Step1 - Create your sessions table
CREATE TABLE […]
We all have seen them…those websites that are still caught somewhere in the year 1999 - 2002. Here’s a checklist to make sure your site isn’t stuck in Web 1.0 world
1. Your website’s pages end in any of the following: .asp, .php3, .php4
2. You have a 30 second Flash Splash Page.
3. You have […]
So, you copied a bunch of directories from one source controlled project to another and you don’t want to go through and delete all those CVS or .svn directories by hand? Ok, no problem…
Below are two snippets that will show you how to recursively remove those directories from the Linux command line in one quick […]
