May 10th, 2010 by rvdavid 4 comments »
It’s been a while since my last entry and this is due the dedication of my free time, when not working on client’s projects, to a certain in-house project.
Last week, I’ve quietly launched project chronus. A project which provides multi site administration system geared for collaboration. Project Chronus makes it easy for our website content admin people at DevProducts to keep track of numerous website projects placed under their control.
Project Chronus is the first project I’ve built with Zend Framework 1.8 and above (as in utilising bootstrapping with Zend_Application) that felt natural. I’ve built several projects with Zend framework 1.5+, but not as comfortably as I did with my recent project.
While Project Chronus is a project to be used for our own internal purposes, it served as a live project with enough real requirements to be effectively used as a sandbox for future projects we choose to undertake and in addition, set (and put to the test) standards for how we do things.
» Read more: Project Chronus: a Zend Framework/Dojo/Doctrine Project Quietly Launched
February 4th, 2010 by rvdavid 4 comments »
Well it’s the last week of my half week holidays and I had a blast. I found myself going from missing work to not thinking about work at all. I know though, that once I got back here at the helm at DP HQ, I’ll be needing some time to get back into the swing of things.
Of course, this is not the first time I’ve taken time off, so I thought I’d warm up my blogging again and talk about what I do to get my mind into gear. So here are 5 things that I like to do to get myself back into focus:
» Read more: 5 things I do to get myself back on focus
January 22nd, 2010 by rvdavid 19 comments » In my recent post regarding the Model Service layer, there was one query about me mentioning that the View is configured by the Controller which goes against the grain of traditional MVC idea of “Views Should handle their own Models / data”.
There is nothing wrong with Views being able to handle their own models, I’m not suggesting that this shouldn’t be the case. You can also do it this way. That is the “traditional MVC” way of doing things and it works fine which is why I’m questioning why I’ve moved away from it. I’m just typing as I go so hopefully by the end of it, we’ll have something that makes a point.
I used to Really love this sh*t!
I used to trumpet the sh*t out of this because I had it figured out and it made me feel smart 
. I thought hey, I can adhere to the traditional MVC way of things and make the View select it’s own Model (or models) and gather information on it’s own – all I need is a View Helper. Further along came the question “What about the times when the Model needs to be used by the Controller?” well I got a plan for this too, then there’s the “What about when the Controller and View need access to the same model?” case. I needed to create a strategy to make sure that the Model isn’t instantiated twice in these cases.
» Read more: Is it important that Views pull data from Models on their own?
January 20th, 2010 by rvdavid 37 comments » The Model Layer of the MVC triad: I’ve been thinking this over for the past few months since using the Doctrine ORM and I think I’ve finally made some progress to get this issue licked. In the past, I’ve agonised over this issue and blogged about my progress. Some weeks or days later I tried to probe the community on what they would do, Now I think I’d have an idea on what I would do.
After some more thought and lots of research on the subject, I’ve come to a solid point where I actually have something to try out which seems semantic aside from the naming of the class (Service Class) – but this is derived from what some people are talking about in ZF circles starting from Matthew Weier O’Phinney who was coining it as the “Gateway to the Domain” from early on, then later changing it to “Service Class”.
» Read more: My Zend Framework Model Layer: Part Service, Part ORM
January 18th, 2010 by rvdavid No comments » I’m on Holiday at the moment and loving every minute of it! During the Weekend, I’ve decided to add a little something to my blog and installed a new feature which somewhat gives back to those who comment on my blog. I’ve added the Top Commentators feature which lists the top 10 people who have commented on posts within my blog throughout it’s existance. At the moment, I’ve got laserlight with 11 comments.
» Read more: Added New Feature: Top Commentators
Bill Karwin
David Penner
Diah
Loïc Frering
Michael Clark
San
Yv@n
abcphp.com
daniel
Federico