Lately I’ve been working on a site based on the Zend Framework. It’s been a good chance to get more intimate with ZF, learning the inner workings and quirks of the framework. Today I came across the question of how to do dependency injection for your controllers – I was looking for a way to [...]

It’s been a while since I did the last post (merge sort) in my sorting algorithms in PHP series (new readers start with Sorting algorithms: bubblesort) so I thought it about time that I add the next part. This time I’m going for heap sort. This algorithm has some similarities with merge sort, mainly the [...]

Every once in a while I have to do some .htaccess rewriting and every time I end up deeply fascinated at the possibilities that it offers. This time round the situation was as follows: for a client we had done some advanced search functionality, which uses fairly detailed URLs to store the search (the search [...]

This is a note to self and any others that may find themselves in a similar situation. Should you happen to one day start your computer, wait for your linux distro to boot up and then see the following message swap: waiting for UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx without anything else happening, then don’t panic! At least not yet. [...]

After great holidays on the Canarian Islands I’m now back in front of the trusty computer. The trip was super, resulting in some much needed extra energy and motivation for … well, lots of things, really :) The first bigger thing I’ve done after coming back is moving plphp.dk from a server I have at [...]