by Kevin Schroeder | 12:00 am

Sharing feedback with Twitter using Bit.ly – Part 1

Over here there is a good article on sharing page feedback on Twitter. I’ll end up doing something similar but in a different manner. A little while I posted an article (Do you queue?) on how you could use the Zend Server Job Queue to run individual tasks. Well you can do the same thing here. I’ve made a few changes since that article, namely that Zend_Application is passed in both to execute() and to run() so I could easily retrieve application settings. Don’t know why I didn’t think of that earlier. Oh well.

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by Kevin Schroeder | 12:00 am

Friday Framework Highlight: Creating tickets with Zend_Barcode and Zend_Pdf

So you’re now in charge of some kind of event and people are going to need tickets to get in. You could do it the old fashion way and actually have people at the door checking the tickets, but that is so 1980’s and also so easy to forge (for the nefarious). Event organizers are adament that tickets are only used once and so they want to use some kind of barcode reader to ensure that tickets are valid and you are responsible for the web side of this.

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by Kevin Schroeder | 12:00 am

Writing music is hard

Writing music is hard. I love doing it but I have yet to write a piece where I did not have significant writer’s block. What I often do is wakeup early and spend an hour or so working on a piece before starting work. I have been writing and playing music for a few years and it is still hard each time. It really is 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration. Enough so that I stopped and wrote a blog entry about it.

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by Kevin Schroeder | 12:00 am

Do you queue? Introduction to the Zend Server PHP Job Queue

There has been a lot of talk over the past several years about the difference between performance and scalability. Never mind that the difference between the two will probably not really affect most developers. Never mind that the “difference between performance and scalability” argument is often used when someone’s code performs poorly and their best argument is “Yeah, but my code scales”. Yeah, sure it does.

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by Kevin Schroeder | 12:00 am

Server Monitoring, Studio Tasks and Gmail?

I deployed this blog about a week ago. Since then there has been little traffic, mostly because I have not promoted it and I have also been working on a bunch of other content and such. Since I also just needed to just get it out the door and running I have not spent a lot of time testing for performance. This blogging app is based off of Zend_Application and as such there is a bit of overhead. Since I was not expecting traffic to be that heavy I was not (and am not) overly concerned about snappy performance at this point. As long as the page loads and displays in the browser I’m fine with it.

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by Kevin Schroeder | 12:00 am

Introduction to Caffeinated PHP – Using Java to extend PHP

If you are reading that title and thinking “what is that guy smoking?” then you are probably in good company. Developers often make development decisions based off of philosophy. Some developers go the route of “we will decide on the best tool (language) for this individual job” and end up having hundreds of individual tools that they need to end up supporting. Others desire to take a more puritanical approach in saying that “we will only use this one tool (language) for this individual job.” The problem is that the decision is often not as cut and dry as many development philosophies allow.

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by Kevin Schroeder | 12:00 am

The music from Zendcon 2009

So there’s been a little bit of interest in the music I wrote for Zendcon in ’09. Some people liked it, some didn’t. I remember reading some of the Twitter posts on the wall and feeling a little nervous. The sound guys played it more up-front than I was expecting. I had no idea that they were going to turn it up the way they did. It wasn’t that loud (according to Kevin’s reckoning ) but I was expecting it to be background music. So the fact that I wasn’t chased out of there with pitchforks made me glad.

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by Kevin Schroeder | 12:00 am

Storing an object in a Zend_Auth session

I saw on our Zend Technologies page on Facebook a question on how to get a logged in user profile when using Zend_Auth. The exact question was this:

hye guys, i need help in Zend … i m implmenting web based application using zend framework the version i am using is 1.9.5 but i got a problem, i dont know how to display a user profile once he or she login into the system? anybody can help me doing so? i tried googling but mostly the code there is for zend 1.5 i guess.. wish can get it done as soon as possible

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by Kevin Schroeder | 12:00 am

Installing Zend Server 5 on Linux in 4 minutes and 37 seconds

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by Kevin Schroeder | 12:00 am

Why no comments?

You may be wondering why there are no comments on the site or any kind of interraction. That’s because I haven’t written it yet. I intend to make the web site much more interractive but I’m also writing all of it myself. That means progress will be slow. Not because I’m slow (I might be) but because I’ve got a bunch of stuff to do. But if you have something to say feel free to do it on the Facebook page or my Twitter.

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