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Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development review

Packt Publishing sent me a copy of Keith Pope’s Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development a while ago. In return they asked me to write what I thought about it. I have had it lying on my desk for a

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Inspiration time

I stopped working as an employee to work both on my own projects and as a freelancing consultant almost two years ago. This last year has been more like a roller coaster than anything else before. From spending very little

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Site architecture based on Zend Framework

After working on the Swedish weather site klart.se for awhile I now work on my own projects again. So I have switched Codeigniter to Zend Framework again. After a trip to Dublin I finally launched the beginning of a new

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Zend Framework – file input labels are not translated

I hade some time over and updated one of my own projects to Zend Framework 1.8.1. Apart from a change in the auto loader API everything went smooth. But I was a bit annoyed to find out that a simple

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Zend Framework and locales

Last night I spent a couple of hours with Zend Framework and especially Zend_Form. I discovered, and now also reported as ZF-6175, a bug in Zend_Validate_Float when using a locale with a decimal point other than “.”. There are unit

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Statistics

Last week we launched a new beta of our Swedish TV guide. It used to be based on Zend Framework 1.0 and has now been completely rewritten and upgraded to version 1.6.2. We didn’t seem to have any difficulties moving

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Two weeks with Zend Studio for Eclipse

After more than ten years with Emacs and terminal flipping as my primary development environment, whether for C, PHP, WSDL, HTML/CSS or javascript, I decided to try (I mean really really try) an IDE for a while. As PHP is

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Zend Feed for a Swedish web development blog aggregator

Lately I have begun to get more and more annoyed with my feed reader. I use a simple feed reader which lack most features except for subscribing to and reading feeds. The one thing that annoys me the most is

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Losing market share with PHP 4

It looks like PHP 4 is still going strong as a worried Clay Loveless write on his blog. Ivo Jansch have an older article, PHP 5 adoption – a summary, on the subject. It is true that the PHP 5

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New help desk application using Zend Framework

Every now and then I sit down to take a closer look on various PHP frameworks to see if it is something I would want to use. For some reason I have never actually used any of the frameworks I

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