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While browsing around some old files on my computer, I came across some old files from 1998 (I think): An old text-game by some of my elementary school friends. It reminded me of how I got started in programming. It was probably when I was 11 or 12 years old, when a friend told me about [...]

It seems a lot of people are struggling with Zend_Form decorators. They want to know how to modify the markup, but they can’t figure out how to do it with the bundled decorators or how to write their own. Since I’ve done some decorator-stuff myself, I thought I’d share some tips on making the ...

Lately, I’ve been checking out PRADO, which is “a component-based and event-driven programming framework for developing Web applications in PHP 5″. What that actually means is that you can use components, such as a data grid or a button, and work with them based on events without having to thi ...

Some frameworks like Django and PRADO have the concept of view inheritance, or a “master page” like in ASP.NET. Essentially it’s a similar idea as Zend_Layout is in Zend Framework, but the difference is that you can define the master/parent view inside the view itself. For example, in Django { ...

On *nix systems you usually have the php executable available in shell, so you can run command-line scripts like unit tests and such, but on Windows this isn’t usually the case. Let’s fix that! There’s two ways to do this: Temporary and permanent Temporary The temporary method will affect onl ...