http://blogs.tankersleywebsolutions.com An Open Discussion on the Web and Programming Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:17:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With the recent release of Manuscript, one of the things I added to the application was an installer. The installer is pretty basic and just asks for some database information that gets written to the config files. This posed a problem. Zend_Config_Writer will only write to a file, not update it. ... http://blogs.tankersleywebsolutions.com/2010/02/28/multiple-config-files-with-zend_application/ Uploading files in PHP is easy, if not tedious. A lot of the projects that I work on involve some type of upload of files and after a while it gets old. Doing all the checks to make sure the file is there, generating forms, etc ... there must be ... http://blogs.tankersleywebsolutions.com/2010/01/07/uploading-files-using-zend-framework/ My programming teacher was full of useful acronyms when it came to teaching us things. KISS (Keep it Simple Stupid), DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself), IPO (Input-Process-Output), and probably one of the most useful, if understated: GIGO = Garbage In, Garbage Out Those four letters are probably some of the most ignored four ... http://blogs.tankersleywebsolutions.com/2009/11/03/dont-trust-your-users/ One of my pet peeves when talking with other programmers is when they use the wrong terminology. One of the most common ones that comes up for me is the issue of Encryption, and most of the time people are not encrypting, but hashing. And yes, there is a distinction. What ... http://blogs.tankersleywebsolutions.com/2009/10/14/hashing-is-not-encryption/ [caption id="attachment_218" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Photo by steveluscher (via Flickr)"][/caption] Over the last few days, I've seen two discussions on mailing lists that I subscribe to. One was on the Zend Framework MVC list and the complexity of Zend Framework and and the second was on the OpenBSD misc mailing list on ... http://blogs.tankersleywebsolutions.com/2009/09/18/yes-the-zend-framework-is-complex/ A few weeks ago BiffCMS changed names to Kiroku (which means Document in Japanese). This was mostly motivated by the fact that BiffCMS, in its current incarnation, bears little resemblence to what BiffCMS was even a year ago. A great deal of work has been done under the hood as ... http://blogs.tankersleywebsolutions.com/2009/06/04/biffcms-is-now-kiroku/ I got the chance to spend last week in Chicago for php|tek 2009, perhaps one of the premier PHP conventions in the US. Some of the most well known names in PHP were in attendance and gave some great presentations. Among my time spent getting to know the PHP community and ... http://blogs.tankersleywebsolutions.com/2009/05/25/phptek-2009-in-review/ One of the nice things about switching BiffCMS to using the Zend Framework from the now extremely old and not-PHP5 BiffAPI that it used to run on is flexibility with power. Due to Zend Framework's nature of allowing the programmer to do what they want instead of forcing them into ... http://blogs.tankersleywebsolutions.com/2009/02/07/major-upgrade-to-biffcms/ I've been meaning to do this for a while since BiffCMS has stablized to the point where I feel comfortable running it in production since switching it to Zend Framework from the old BiffAPI that it had been running. This is good since I just finished setting up and working ... http://blogs.tankersleywebsolutions.com/2009/01/18/tankersley-web-solutions-running-biffcms/ Another project of mine has been launched - Biff Project Manager. Biff Project Manager is a project management system that I am building to replace my by-hand method of project management. The first SVN commit has been made and you can check out a fresh copy from Google Code. What does ... http://blogs.tankersleywebsolutions.com/2008/11/19/biff-project-manager-launched/