Multiple changes and a delete on same object in doctrine
If you want to make several different changes to a doctrine record object you might find yourself slightly puzzled when it comes to deleting related objects. It seems that unless you set the…
Zend_Date time part and GMT
If you live in the UK you might have a surprise waiting in store for you if you use Zend Date for the time part only. For a while I even thought this…
PHPUnit & Selenium - screenshot path problem
Setting up Selenium RC server together with PHPUnit has proven surprisingly easy… Well most of it. Every now and then as a beginner you might run into monster errors like the one above.…
Christmas Decorations
📷 View the photo album on Flickr 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…
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…
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:
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…
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…
Technology of the Future Today
Quite some time ago I stumbled upon this video from Nokia about a phone device that would be using nano technology. However on it’s own it didn’t feel like enough to write about,…
Easter Photo Frenzy 2009
I have definitely been enjoying my new G10 camera and as a result came back from the Easter holiday with loads and loads and loads of photos. Just going through to select the…
Mazurek, Traditional Polish Easter Pastry
Polish Easter like most of our holidays includes a lot of food, some typical for that time of the year and holiday occasion. One of these specialities is a desert called Mazurek –…
Doctrine Many To Many With Extra Fields
Recently I have started using Doctrine with Zend Framework. Most of the time it is great, but sometimes I get stuck on this or that issue. Most of my problems so far have…
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