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While attending PHPUK conference in London, I noticed how much talk there is about PHP 5.3 and “when to upgrade?”, there was even a presentation about that. Because I have been using PHP 5.3 for more than half a year, I decided to share my views on this topic. This topic is very important as [...]

It’s always good to use great tools, but you need to make sure that you use them correctly, not just trying to code “just for it to work”. For this reason I decided to write down my usual list of things I mention when taking over some legacy project or just consulting someone how [...]

As you might have noticed I mostly write about Zend Framework and related content. This has a lot of underlying reasons, so I decided to wrap up my thoughts about it and why to (not)use Zend Framework for your own projects. This is not a comparison of frameworks though, because I don’t feel like [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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). [...]

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 [...]

Only some days ago PHP.net introduced 5.3.0RC1 version, but future features have been known for quite a while. Namespaces and lambda functions (+ closures) are most anticipated, because they’ll increase flexibility and good-looks of code a lot. Today I’m going to try to prove why lambda functions are so useful.
Because of “Functional Programming” course I [...]

Getting back to shared servers problems. I have some very time consuming scripts running through CRON – some nice web scrapping jobs. They are not processing-intense, but rather slow because of slow websites. All these jobs are really hard to divide in to separate scripts (another article), so one script should have no limits to [...]

If you have been programming websites long enough you would know that user input is first think to worry about when thinking about security. It’s really hard to decide what data is acceptable, especially when user has permission to insert HTML content through form.
For example, if you are developing CMS you need to make sure [...]