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ditched the Zend Framework

By drasch, on March 19th, 2007%

I’ve ditched the Zend Framework on a project. In it’s place, Symfony has allowed me to recreate all the work with the Zend Framework over several months in a matter of 4 hours.

The Zend Framework proved to be:

too piecemeal
incomplete – arguably this is represented by the version number; but this applied to both . . . → Read More: ditched the Zend Framework

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2006 IntelliContact Accomplishments

By drasch, on December 17th, 2006%

I decided to make list of things of which I’ve been a part of accomplishing over the last twelve months at IntelliContact not any without assistance, and some for which I’m only happy to have had a role.

From 3500-7200+ customers
From one database cluster to four
From eight mail servers to 12
Creating and maturing the development processing inspired . . . → Read More: 2006 IntelliContact Accomplishments

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the Spike

By drasch, on October 29th, 2006%

We’re engaging in a spike at IntelliContact this week. Some of the projects people are investigating (none of which are sure to be finished by the end of this week):

Mac/Yahoo Desktop Widget
Cleanup of old files in codebase
Consistent mail sending for messages other than broadcasts
Firefox/Thunderbird Extension for showing message stats
Refactoring message sending to show customers progress . . . → Read More: the Spike

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Learning PHP sans bad habits

By drasch, on October 12th, 2006%

I’ve received some fatalistic responses to my last installment related to what I see as problems with PHP teachings. In particular, I fear we teach people to write applications in ways that are reckless to the fact that these individuals likely read no more than 1-2 PHP books and move on to start writing their . . . → Read More: Learning PHP sans bad habits

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