During my study as well as my time as a web developer at the tinami GbR in Germany Eclipse PDT was my primary development IDE. Since I’m working at Webfauna in the Netherlands I’m workling with the big brother of Eclipse PDT, the Zend Studio. Even if I was a student I used short cuts. Now that I’m an employed web developer I use a much more shortcuts than before. Everyone knows that “time is money”. Using shortcuts accelerates the development process rapidly. That results in decreasing production costs for applications.
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Development, Eclipse PDT, Zend Studio
A few day ago my colleague ask me to help him with a CSS problem. Even though he specified one element precisely the style definition takes no affect. I told him that CSS is based on a mathematical system. At the time I didn’t know that this underlaying layer is called CSS Specificity. Within this article I will take a closer look on that system.
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CSS, Design, Development, Programming, Tutorial
As a developer is sometimes necessary to manipulate all (or respectively most) of the entries of a given array. Within this post I’ll explain the almight array_map function in detail.
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Array_map, Development, Foreach, PHP, Programming
A few days ago I started the development of a new version of my CMS. In that case I also wrote an article about Test Driven Development (TDD) with the Zend Framework. But TDD is another topic. Today I’ll take a closer look on a special technique called “Nested Sets“. Nested sets are used to manage hierarchical data. Instead of walking through the results of a database in an recursive way nested sets providing the possibility to avoid recursive calls. Therefore the response time of an application can be increased extremely by using nested sets.
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Development, MySQL, Nested Sets, Programming, TDD, Test Driven Development, Zend Framework
The journey can begin … yes, I’m starting test driven development using Zend Framework 1.10. I’m already a little advance with PHPUnit. With the Zend Framework I’m more experienced. While I was studying OnlineMedien at the Hochschule Furtwangen University I already taught my fellow students using the Zend Framework. At university I developed a tiny guest book to show the participants of my course how to use the Zend Framework.
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Development, Grolsch, HFU, OnlineMedien, Programming, Test Driven Development, TTD, Zend Framework, Zendcast
