I am on a mission to get to grips with using theZend Framework [http://framework.zend.com/about/overview] for building web applications. At MOO, the Zend Framework is used in it's more toolkit-like component library capacity and I'm also pretty familiar with its structure from previous work with Magento…
Having to include an entire PHP OAuth library every time I want to make a simple API request for some of my own data from a 3rd party app like Twitter really pisses me off. Perhaps this is unreasonable, but it's a problem I ran into for the 4th or…
[http://uk.moo.com]There is some mystery time warp device which absorbs time when you're having fun. There is also a nasty tunnel monster which lives on Britain's railways and gobbles up all your freetime whilst you're travelling to and from work. At least, it does when you commute…
In the middle of writing a blog post about generating placeholder text (think lipsum..coming soon) I started wondering why there is no HTML-native way to load arbitrary content into an element. API's and RESTful services are all over the web these days, but we continue to have to jump…
On the 19th March I'm going to be attending "State of the Browser [http://browser.londonwebstandards.org/]". It's an event hosted by the London Web Standards [http://www.londonwebstandards.org/] group for "web creators" to get the low down on up-and-coming features of the 4 modern browsers. Tickets for the…
[http://erisds.co.uk/projects/migrate] Note: Migrate! Was last updated 04/09/2011 If you work with multiple environments (development, staging, production etc) when building WordPress sites, you'll know that WordPress uses hardcoded absolute URLs in the database for various tasks. There are lots of arguments as to why…
Last year I published two parts of a three part tutorial (doh) on the YUI2 Carousel Widget [http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/carousel/] which worked with YUI Carousel 2.7.0. Since that time, a new couple of new versions of the YUI2: Carousel widget have been released (2.8.…
[http://erisds.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/dreamstime_13555466-e1284324551793.jpg] Today is my 25th birthday. It feels like a milestone, something that needs to be marked and celebrated. Scarily it's lead me to do a little thinking and life-pondering. We're fast heading for Q3 of 2010. I set myself…