There are 7 articles written in October, 2008

Project Euler

on October 27, 2008. in Free time, Places on the web, Programming. A 1 minute read.

A few days ago, I found a really great place, full of excellent math and programming problems: Project Euler.

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A Zend_Captcha example

on October 22, 2008. in Development, Programming, Software. A 4 minute read.

Update: I made an error in the example code, regarding the CAPTCHA image URL. I’m sorry for any troubles caused by this mistake.

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Starting with Zend Framework - part 2

on October 20, 2008. in Development, Programming, Software. A 4 minute read.

This post is the second part of my introductory text on Zend Framework, Starting with Zend Framework. This time I cover the basics about controllers, actions, view scripts and view helpers. On request routing and the Front Controller I will write one (or more) big post(s), so this part won’t be explained now. I will also skip explaining the models; they deserve their own post :)

Ubuntu as a dev machine

on October 15, 2008. in Development, Software. A 2 minute read.

This post is more of a note to myself, ‘cause I keep forgetting all these Linux commands, and spend hours setting up stuff right…

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Last night I came across on a post on TechFounder, about using Zend_Db_Profiler and a good example with real data on optimizing MySQL queries. For “geeks” who SQL speak fluently this will probably be no new stuff, but for great number of web developers (me included!) this will probably come in handy.

Starting with Zend Framework

on October 07, 2008. in Development, Programming, Software. A 7 minute read.

Zend Framework is a big & heavy object-oriented framework for PHP. I started working with ZF a couple of months ago, I liked it’s documention (it’s very well documented) and decided to stick with this framework. Here is the latest version of the framework — at the time of writing v1.6.1.

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Wordpress paging navigation

on October 06, 2008. in Development, Programming, Software. A 3 minute read.

As I’m not a big fan of Wordpress plug—ins, and I wanted to use a normal page navigation, not just the default “Previous posts” and “Next posts”, I decided to play around a bit and create my own paging navigation, or pagination.

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