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Open Source fun

It’s been a great few weeks for open source projects, as Magento hit 1.0, the Zend Framework hit 1.5, Wordpress hit 2.5, and (not really open source exactly) Apple launched the iPhone SDK. It’s been a lot to keep up with! Combine that with a fair amount of client work, and you see why I […]

Posted at April 18, 2008 - 4:03 pm | 2 comments | Filed Under: Open Source

Zend Framework speed

Richard Thomas put together a performance comparison of basic PHP, the Zend Framework, the Solar framework and Richard’s custom framework, and the results surprised me. ZF is slow as molasses. Of course, any framework is going to incur overhead compared to all custom code because the framework is managing a number of tasks transparently from […]

Posted at September 19, 2007 - 4:08 pm | no comments | Filed Under: PHP, Zend Framework, Open Source

DCPHP presentation

I’ll be giving a presentation on Subversion for the monthly DCPHP Developers Meeting tomorrow at 7pm. If you’re in the DC area and are interested in meeting some of your peers, and possibly learning something, swing by. It’s in the Greenpeace office at:
702 H Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
Here’s the Powerpoint presentation, but it has been […]

Posted at August 7, 2007 - 5:52 pm | no comments | Filed Under: PHP, Tools, Open Source

Fun with Subversion - Hooks

I use Subversion as an SCM tool for all my projects, and I use Basecamp as a simple project management tool. They’re both tremendously useful, pretty simple to start using, and they can work together using Subversion’s hooks. I’ve started using a script from Simon Gate that posts a Subversion commit log to a Basecamp […]

Posted at July 6, 2007 - 10:55 am | no comments | Filed Under: Tools, Open Source

Magento - Open Source e-commerce

An open source project I’m very excited about is Magento, a new e-commerce package. E-commerce was one of the very first application domains that was tackled when the web starting becoming popular in the mid to late Nineties. There are many, many commercial packages that are available, and correspondingly, there are a few free open […]

Posted at June 27, 2007 - 2:20 pm | no comments | Filed Under: PHP, Zend Framework, Open Source