Archive for April, 2009

Renaming file extensions with bash script

A couple of weeks ago I had to rename the file extension of several view scripts from html (from my own mvc framework) to phtml (zend framework). I found, as always, bash to be my friend.

for i in *
do
( file $i | grep html ) && mv $i $(echo $i | sed [...]

April 30, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Development  One Comment

Would I Pass the Zend PHP5 Certification Exam?

I have just used 20 minutes on testing my php5 skills before taking the actual certification exam in the future.
As expected, by me at least, I lack some skills in arrays, string manipulation and regular expressions. I knew this. I always look up details when I use this. Database access questions are all based [...]

April 16, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Web development  No Comments

Could MemcacheQ be Used For Cometd?

I have been wondering for a couple of weeks would it be possible to use MemcacheQ as a kind of backend for Cometd? The reason I find it interesting is that sending message to the queue(s) would be as easy as

memcache_set($memcache_obj, $memcache_queue_name, $msg, 0, 0);

In other words easy as pie.
Since there are all [...]

April 7, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Web development  No Comments

New Versions of Dojo and Plugd Released

I have not posted for about a week now, the main reason is that I am working on something very exciting, which will be features here in the comming days, if all works out.
Today, while reading the most recent posts on Ajaxian, I found the announcement of the Dojo 1.3 release. Read the announcement [...]

April 1, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Web development  No Comments