A few days ago I finished reading Keith Pope's book titled “Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development”, so, after letting it “rest” in my mind for a while, here are my thoughts on it…

O hai. First things first - someone should slap me for being such a lazy blogger. Somehow I lost all the motivation I had in the beginning, but looks like it’s back now :) I finally had the time to play around with the latest Zend Framework version (v 1.9 now). I managed to skip the whole 1.8.x version, so this whole Zend_Application stuff is quite new to me. I spent a few days poking around the manual and the code to make it work. And it works! Yey for me! And yey for Rob Allen for his post on Bootstrapping modules in ZF 1.8!

Wordpress is one of the best blogging platforms out there — if not the best. It’s very powerful, can be easily extended and modified. It’s documentation is very well written and, so far, had answer to all of my crazy questions :)

Besides the official documentation and the Quickstart, there are many useful resources for Zend Framework, like blogs and Twitter. I did my best to collect them. If you know something that’s not listed here, but should be, please leave a comment and I’ll update the post :)

I wrote a Python script for automating the steps required to setup a web project environment on my local dev machine that runs on Ubuntu. Called it pywst: Python, Web, Svn, Trac. That’s the best I could do, sorry :P

Today I was messing around with Trac, installing it and doing some basic configuration. While my dev machine gets updated, I want to share my process of installing Trac.

Happy New Year! Hope everyone had a blast for New Year’s Eve and managed to get some rest :) This is my first working day for this year. I’m still kinda lazy and sleepy. And I wanna eat something all the time. Damn you candies!!!

Here’s an example for styling Zend_Form's default layout. The default layout is using definition lists. While there’s an option for changing the default layout, the wrapper tags and stuff, I see no reason for it. Create the form, add some CSS and your good to go :)

Today I was catching up on feeds and one of the articles lead me to GoPHP5.org, where I spent some time lurking. In the FAQ section of that site one sentence made me curios:

I started writing some boring introduction but I’ll just skip to the point.