That’s right, I’m setting goals for 2013 on the last day of the third quarter. But my current status warrants the urgency. I have been a PHP developer since I started at The Nerdery exactly 6 years ago this month. Within the first few months I learned Zend Framework (version 1.0.2 at the time). I …
Zend Framework supports reading and writing from configuration files of 5 different types (JSON, Serialized Array, INI, XML, and YAML). It is most common to see INI used for application config files. But config files can be used for many different uses including navigation, translations, or ACLs. If you application relies on parsing one or …
Many people are aware that modern browsers limit the number of concurrent connections to a specific domain to between 4 or 6. This means that if your web page loads dozens of asset files (js, images, css) from the same domain they will be queued up to not exceed this limit. This same problem can happen, but even worse, when your page needs to make several requests to PHP scripts using sessions.
In addition to rethinking email, Google Wave also rethought the scrollbar. Google Wave’s scrollbars are small, unintrusive, and easy to use. To immortalize Google Wave, I’ve created a jQuery plugin that mimics the Google Wave Scroll Pane.
It is easy to create Javascript objects, but this method goes one step further by allowing you to create a Javascript object with private and public methods, as well as private variables. It’s a perfect way to create a single access point for Javascript and Flash to communicate.