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Eclipse Shortcuts

Gavin Williams — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:29:52 +0000

Right clicking to create new table classes in Zend Studio for Eclipse can get very annoying. The best solution is to create shortcut for it. To do this: open up preferences (cmd + , if you're on a mac). type in "keys" without the quotation marks. to the right enter "Zend Table" into the "type filter text" [...]

Non-existant fields Zend_Db_Table_Abstract

Gavin Williams — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:57:08 +0000

I'd run into a problem in the Zend Table where when inserting data from a form, if a field didn't exist in the database ZF would crap out with an exception. Having to unset posted variables I didn't need, meant more typing, more typing meant more unnecessary code. I found the easiest way to get around [...]

Gavin Williams is dead

Gavin Williams — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:45:21 +0000

No, not me, just my old blog, trying to maintain just one blog is tedious enough, but with the new fishrod site and it's amazing blog, this and gavinwilliams.co.uk managing them is going to be a task and a half. As of now gavinwilliams.co.uk now redirects to justanotherdeveloper.co.uk whilst the fishrod blog will aggregate data from [...]

Meta Data

Gavin Williams — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:22:09 +0000

Over at fishrod we're developing our new CMS based on the new Zend Framework 1.7 (biting our nails for 2.0 to be released so we can relax for at least 3 months). One of the issues that always arises when developing a Content Management System for our clients is the amount of flexibility we want [...]

Google Gets Social

Gavin Williams — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:16:16 +0000

Google seems to have gotten a nice new social facelift, allowing users to rate/rank their personal search results (much like digg) and to provide comments on them, pretty interesting! I wonder how many terabytes of data and bandwidth that's gonna cost em!

Online Mediation

Gavin Williams — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:32:23 +0000

A decision by a number of UK internet providers to block a Wikipedia page showing an image of a naked girl has angered users of the popular site. BBC NEWS | UK | Wikipedia child image censored This just hit my RSS reader in flock. It's quite interesting to know that ISP's are actually blocking websites based [...]

Agile Development

Gavin Williams — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:12:20 +0000

Working at Channel 4 I've been introduced to Agile Development, to sum it up in one sentence... "It's a way of working in a development team, where the specification for a project is constantly changing and the waterfall approach (you get a spec, build to it over a long period of time, get feedback and make [...]

Zend_Acl Db Storage

Gavin Williams — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:20:56 +0000

I've spent the last few hours trying to extend Zend_Acl_Role_Registry and Zend_Acl to support Db storage, when it just hit me what I'm actually trying to do, and a much easier way to do it! Zend_Acl Storage Mechanism Zend_Acl doesn't store your ACL's and ARO's it simply holds it at run time and leaves it to the [...]

JS Lazy Developer

Gavin Williams — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:40:15 +0000

With JavaScript being taken alot more seriously, we're seeing a rise in JS best practices, the days when JavaScript would be mocked based upon annoying popup's, really crap navigation systems that broke in every browser except IE, and seriously disgusting page effects that should stay relegated on people's myspace pages are pretty much over. JavaScript [...]

{ Publisher Subscriber Pattern }

Gavin Williams — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:29:49 +0000

A few weeks ago I was introduced to the Publisher Subscriber pattern in JS, pretty much confused by the methodology behind it I decided to give it a go. The publisher subscriber pattern allows several methods to subscribe to a particular event. Methods and functions can unsubscribe and subscribe to any event at will, this is [...]