Joanna Walker

Christmas Decorations

Christmas is coming! I found myself slightly surprised by the Holiday this year, just cannot believe we are almost there. For the first time in England though, I’m not spending it at someone else’s place, I’m not in the middle of redecorating or going back home. Thus

Autloading modular forms & models in Zend Framework 1.8

It’s not really obvious with the error messages you get, but using a thing like Form_Login does not work out of the box with a modular structure. Which is slightly surprising considering that it’s inside the default module. I have found examples like the second one below,

Redirect in controller plugin - Zend Framework 1.8

If you need to redirect while inside a controller plugin, for example in preDispatch() here is a quick way to do it: $redirector = Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getStaticHelper('redirector'); $redirector->gotoUrl('/login/');

Why I Hate Winning

I’m a bit of a computer game addict. Not a big fan of FPS though. However what recently struck me is that in many ways I actually do not want to win the game I’m playing. It might sound crazy at first, but after thinking about it, it

Hitch. Object-oriented event handlers with jQuery

Moving to jQuery from YUI has been a 99% positive experience. Probably the only thing I’ve really missed was the ability provided by YUI Event to control the object scope that an event handler was executed in. When you attach an event to an element in jQuery within the

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