Archive for April, 2007

Why you need a Zend Framework ACL and Cache GUI

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I have been digging further into the Zend Framework and although they are not too version 1.0 yet it still feels pretty mature. I have been working on a admin interface for the ACL (Access Control List) and the [...]

18Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 7 comments | Continued

Listing roles in Zend Framework ACL

I have been working on a interface to allow me to edit Zend Framework’s ACL. The main problem was that currently there are no ways to get the list of roles out of it. To add the functionality at the moment you have to patch one framework file (not nice) and sub-class the Zend_Acl class. [...]

18Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

The Rule of three

I mentioned in a previous post about the rule of three. I firmly believe that whatever development methodology you use you can never get a complex development right the first time. The rule only applies to a certain kind of programming problem because some things are too simple to require a rewrite and large scale [...]

17Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

Weekend away

Not sure I will get to post anything over the weekend as I am off to Bruge with wife and friends. It’s a great excuse to pick up vast amounts of Belgium fruit beer (yumm). I am traveling lite as I am meeting up the wife down in Kent so doing my best to do [...]

13Apr2007 | admin | 0 comments | Continued

Learning from your mistakes

Here is what I have learnt after yestardays post ‘Death of Google search’

Beware of Google Fanboys (I didnt know they existed!)
Dont put sensationalist news on reddit as it just gets buried instantly (It turns out the people who run reddit also play a significant part in removing what they deem ‘junk’)
Make sure your comments have [...]

12Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

The death of Google search

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About three years ago I remember having a conversation with a close friend about Google and its dominance of the search engine market. I said at the time that I believed that Google would be replaced within 5 years by another innovation. We still have two years for my prediction to come [...]

11Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued
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