After I had upgraded from Firebug 1.2.0b7 to 1.2.0b15, my web apps were no longer throwing any kind of logs into the Firebug console. I’m using the Zend_Log_Writer_Firebug class for that.
Luckily, just earlier today I noticed a new release of Firebug 1.2.0. And with that, FirePHP 0.1.1.2. But now there was a new problem:
[”There was […]

Earlier today while reading through the Zend Framework 1.6 RC1 release notes I’ve come across an interesting bug that has been fixed: [ZF-3382] Zend_Cache_Backend_File problems under very high load.
There are a lot of things to say about this issue. The obvious ones first:
1. Under typical operation such as opening, locking, reading/writing, and then closing a […]

I use Phing to deploy my projects, and as they become more complex I expand on my use of Phing tasks. For instance, I have a ZIP archive of zip codes that Phing extracts and then imports into a database when deploying the application.
I maintain two development environments. One on a Linux server, and one […]

It’s no secret, I’m a fan of the Zend Framework, which I’ve been using since version 0.15. A lot of components have been added since then, and many of the initial components have been refactored and enhanced, and have matured. And that includes the Zend_Db_Select component, which has been evolving quite nicely, and even Zend_Db_Table_Abstract […]

This short entry was inspired by a snippet of inefficient code I encountered, which involved iterating over an array with a loop and breaking out of it once enough results were fetched.
Zend_Search_Lucene does not paginate results. It simply returns an array. While it does allow you to specify to only return the first N results […]