Zend Framework and Doctrine. Part 3

November 30th, 2009

During last two months I spent massive amount of time tweaking Doctrine ORM framework and making it to perform as fast as possible (as you might have noticed from my never ending tweets). This post is devoted to performance and efficiency, with practical tips & tricks how to reduce memory usage, make it work [...]

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Service Layer in Web applications

November 26th, 2009

In my professional live I mostly work with enterprise web applications which are quite demanding for big layer of business logic (that’s another article I guess) and decoupling of application layers. During this year I invested quite a lot for a search of a good ways to architecture a big application and make it simply [...]

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Zend Framework and Doctrine. Part 2

November 18th, 2009

Today we start actual development with Doctrine and Zend Framework. Base of this post is my code which I have been using for quite a few projects and it worked really well.
These are the steps required to setup Doctrine:

Create MySQL (or any other adapter supported by Doctrine) database
Download Doctrine 1.2 (as of today – 1.2.0beta3). [...]

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Zend Framework and Doctrine. Part 1

November 16th, 2009

If you are following twitter (you can find me there also) or any other social network, you might have noticed that there is a huge interest in Doctrine and Zend Framework integration. Since I’ve been using these libraries for quite a while now, so I’m going to explain some best practices and ways you can [...]

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