ditched the Zend Framework

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 . . . → Read More: ditched the Zend Framework

2006 IntelliContact Accomplishments

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 . . . → Read More: 2006 IntelliContact Accomplishments

the Spike

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 . . . → Read More: the Spike

Learning PHP sans bad habits

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 . . . → Read More: Learning PHP sans bad habits