Juozas devBlog

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 [...]

Stuart Herbert in his blog more than a year ago pointed some key Microsoft Sql extension for PHP pros:
What’s Wrong With The Existing MSSQL Extension For PHP?
… or, why do we need an improved SQL Server extension for PHP? :)
The existing MSSQL extension works well, but has a few practical limitations that have to be [...]

My task today was to make Rob Allen’s Zend framework tutorial project run on Windows. Some years ago such task could have been a problem, but as you will see, now it’s nothing special.
To start with, Windows sometimes really annoys. For example, by default I can’t add files to C:\inetpub\wwwroot. It doesn’t ask for “Allow/Cancel?“, [...]

Sometime in the end of March Microsoft and partners announced 2009 WinPHP competition. I always wanted to try to create an app with both PHP and C#, so I decided to register – my idea is to create a project, which will demonstrate both PHP and .NET connectivity and Deep Zoom functionality.
My project will allow [...]

One may debug his application with print(”) statements all other the place or alert(”) for JavaScript. Luckily some years ago Firebug extension for Firefox was introduced, which introduced (?) console. Console works absolutely the same as in Linux and can be used not only to execute commands, but receive information from various sources.
To start with, [...]