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 ...
read moreBook review: Plone 3 Products Development Cookbook
The book I'm reviewing this time is Plone 3 Products Development Cookbook by Juan Pablo Giménez and Marcos F. Romero - published by Packt Publishing. The ...
read moreAnother Plone book review
I've been given the opportunity to review another Plone book - this time it's Plone 3 Multimedia by Tom Gross. The book will be a nice followup to ...
read moreMore reviews to come
Not the books referred to in my last post although it could be (once I've read them :) ). Nope, I'll be reviewing another book from ...
read moreGeek birthdays
As a kid I always liked the hard packages the most, for birthdays and christmas. Those were the ones you could play with and immerse yourself in right away. Fun fun fun! As opposed to clothes, which you can ... wear. And that's about it. As I grew older, the ...
read moreAwesome Command-fu
A good friend of mine mentioned that SSH supports escape sequences - something I had never thought of. Or rather, something I had wished for every time I'd been faced with a dead SSH connection. Turns out, you can easily close any SSH connection (dead or alive) by issuing the ...
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Geonames library
A couple of days I was doing some work on BeWelcome, updating some code to fetch geo data from Geonames.org. Our old code had been using a mixture of a spaf maps class and php functions and trying to get it to work properly seemed to demand quite a ...
read moreBack from OSD
The OpenSourceDays conference is through now (has been since Sunday, actually, but work has been keeping me very busy) and a quick reflection tells me that it was great to be there. Some of the highlights:
- A good presentation from Signal Digital about ding.TING: a new open source frontend ...
Open Source Days
One thing I've completely forgotten to mention here is the fact that I'll be going to the Open Source Days conference in Copenhagen the 5th and 6th. The schedule looks nice with Friday probably being more along the line of my immediate interests - although the Development aid & eGov ...
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