Brandon Savage approached me with an interesting issue regarding ZF bootstrap resources, and accessing them in your action controllers. Basically, he’d like to see any resource initialized by the bootstrap immediately available as simply a public member of his action controller. So, for instance, if you were using the “DB” resource in your application, your controller could access it via $this-> db
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A Simple Resource Injector for ZF Action Controllers – Matthew Weier O’Phinney
The last SabreDAV announcement I made here was 1.0.4, which happened in January. Just today I’ve released 1.0.9, so I figured it’s time for a small update. A public demo site I’ve bought the sabredav.org domain, and placed a live demo on it for people to try out
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SabreDAV 1.0.9 released & CalDAV news – Evert Pot
Anyone using SimpleDNSd is strongly encouraged to update to latest SVN (you will have to erase the php-5.3.1 directory and recompile php to get it patched correctly). The current SVN version will most likely go release candidate and be released later. Current SVN release includes many fixes and improvements, including for SimpleDNSd, the DNS daemon written in PHP
In this special behind the scenes episode of the Blog Show, we will take you through setting up the shot for an upcoming tutorial. The technique allows you to create a 3D camera from a single 2D track! We also discuss the benefits of temporary post production so you can reshoot before the set is taken down.
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BLOG SHOW: Fear of Heights
A week ago Carl J Ncube announced to a press conference that he would be spending a week living on First Street in Harare to raise public awareness about how piracy affects the local music industry. The public response as compared to the online response was disappointing. “I didn’t expect people in Zimbabwe not to respond to something as simple as moral support.
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Zimbabwe’s beleaguered artists
“There are only two priorities for a start-up: Winning the market and not running out of cash. Running lean is not an end. For that matter, neither is running fat
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"There are only two priorities for a start-up: Winning the market and not running out of cash…."
Thank You For Arguing is a fascinating introduction to classical and modern rhetoric, packed with speechwriting lessons for every public speaker. It is grounded in the wisdom of the past (beginning with Aristotle’s ethos, pathos, and logos ) and yet written for modern speakers with countless references to everyday persuasive examples. This article is the latest of a series of public speaking book reviews here on Six Minutes
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Book Review: Thank You For Arguing (Jay Heinrichs)
Self interview by Mgcini Nyoni, Poet, Playwright and freelance writer based in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. With poetry published in FIRE IN THE SOUL 100 poems for human rights (New Internationalist / Amnesty International UK 2009), Intwasa Poetry (Amabooks, Bulawayo 2008), Poetry for Charity Vol 2 (Nigeria 2008).
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Fire in the Soul; a take on poetry in Zimbabwe
A week ago a woman gave birth at a tollgate. According to the story the woman was on her way to Gweru Hospital where she had been referred to by the Shangani District Hospital presumably because the district hospital was not capacitated to do the delivery. But that’s just my deduction.
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The hazards of giving birth in Zimbabwe
Read this open letter from Dale Doré Dear Prime Minister, After a brave, harrowing and tearful account of a victim’s experience of being raped you asked: “How do you confront a dictator using democratic means?” With due respect, Prime Minister, it is not by dining with the dictator every Monday while crimes are committed against your supporters. Nor do you confront a dictator by proclaiming that he is part of the solution when he is, and always has been, part of the problem.
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Don’t dine with the dictator
MIX is happening and there is a lot of excitement around the various releases such as the Windows Phone 7 Developer Preview, IE9 Platform Preview and few other announcements that have been made. Clearly, the Windows Phone 7 Developer Preview has generated the maximum interest and opened a plethora of opportunities for .NET Developers. It also takes the mobile development to a new generation and doesn’t force developers to learn different programming language. Along with this, few other releases have been out. The most anticipated Silverlight 4 RC is out and its corresponding templates are also out there for you to download. Once VS 2010 RC was released, it was much of a disappointment that it doesn’t support SL4 development as well as the SL4 Business Application Development (a.k.a. WCF RIA Services). There were few workarounds though nothing concrete. Earlier I had written about how the WCF RIA Services Preview does work with ASP.NET Development using VS 2010 RC.
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Visual Studio 2010 RC – Silverlight 4 and WCF RIA Services Development – Updates from MIX Announcements
I was reading Fred’s post today, The Ideal Phone System , and what stands out is how many older technologies didn’t stand the test of time because they were designed with a different set of assumptions about the evolution of voice. In some ways, Fred’s post reminds me of my longtime desire to find the ideal home entertainment system. As we’ve moved a number of times, I’ve created and changed our home a/v system several times over
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My ideal home entertainment system
About two months ago, John Resig and I met at Café Algiers in Harvard square to discuss how Microsoft can contribute to the jQuery project. Today, Scott Guthrie announced in his second-day MIX keynote that Microsoft is throwing its weight behind jQuery and making it the primary way to develop client-side Ajax applications using Microsoft technologies
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Microsoft, jQuery, and Templating
Choosing a web application development language has become a critical task, as programmers now have to develop websites with multiple functionalities. As different application does different types of tasks, it has almost become impossible for a website developer to opt for any particular web application development language. However, thanks to the unprecedented growth in the field of web development , websites now can be built with multiple scripting languages such as Cold Fusion, Perl, JSP, ASP.NET, PHP etc and this has definitely added a new dimension in this field.
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Choosing A Web Application development Language
This post is specific to India Its been a month since I wrote my last post. Much of work has been happening around planning for Tech Ed India , the upcoming Virtual TechDays this week as well as our Developer content at the Great Indian Developer Summit 2010 . Its going to be one exciting period starting this week and I am glad I would be able to meet a lot of folks who have written to me personally that they would like to catch up at Tech Ed India. For now, I had a chance to meet the Microsoft India Development Centre team that worked on the Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool (erstwhile Akshara). The team updated me that they have also released the scripts so that the Indic input feature can be encapsulated into your own websites. For example, if you are having a web page where you collect user information, you can pretty much make your site indic aware i.e
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Making your ASP.NET/HTML Websites Indic aware – accepting Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi and other language input
The previous article of the Ethos, Pathos, and Logos series defined pathos and described why emotional connection is so important for your presentations. In this article, we explore how to build strong pathos in your presentations through a variety of emotional pathways. Pathos Superhighways: Your Primary Paths to Emotional Connection All roads are not created equally.
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18 Paths to Pathos: How to Connect with Your Audience
Minimalism in web design seems to be the new trend lately, and WordPress is the perfect candidate to put simplicity to good use. Good minimal design is more than white backgrounds and text-centered design — it requires the same balance, elegance, and purpose that good web design does.
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20 Beautiful Minimalist WordPress Themes
In this article, we’re going to delve into Google Analytics and start to tailor your account settings so you can get information you need much more easily. Google Analytics in Depth is my series of Google Analytics articles where we will explore Google Analytic’s beneficial features to help you get the most out of this powerful and free web tool.
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Google Analytics in Depth: Goals and Funnels
By Rick Wilson When I look around both the technology industry as a whole and the hosting industry specifically, I see an interesting phenomenon that’s become the “norm”. Many of us got into tech and hosting because we liked technology and wanted to use the latest and greatest hardware and that led to an expertise and we monetized that expertise by building businesses in this space.
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Technology is a Commodity Solutions are a Premium
Webmaster Level: Intermediate Did you know that a majority of users surveyed feel that having information in their own language was more important than a low price? Living in a non-English-speaking country, I’ve seen friends and family members explicitly look for and use local and localized websites—properly localized sites definitely have an advantage with users
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Working with multi-regional websites