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Zend Framework 1.7.0 Released

Today, we released Zend Framework 1.7.0. This release features AMF support, JQuery support, and Twitter support, among numerous other offerings.

EllisLab hiring to the support team

EllisLab is hiring an ExpressionEngine Technical Support Specialist.

In Flanders Fields

Thank you for your brave and selfless sacrifice. It means more to me, Canada and the world then we usually say.In Flanders FieldsIn Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.

BambooInvoice featured in December Linux Pro Magazine

What a fun holiday surprise!  Linux Pro Magazine has a wonderful article in its December issue called Smooth Solution: BambooInvoice web-based invoicing solution, which is (not surprisingly) an article about one users experience installi

Fluid, Campfire, DataMapper and useful links

In no particular order, here are some things that I’ve found interesting, useful, or funny.  Mostly useful.FluidA Site Specific Browser (SSB) that you can use to run web applications in.  I use it for BambooInvoice, ExpressionEngine and Campfire.  It rocks my socks.  Find it at http://fluidapp.com/.

PHP if statement explained with Robots and James Brown’s Sex Machine

George Ornbo over at ShapeShed (an EE shop, go admire the majesty) wrote a cute introduction to the PHP "if" statment. If you can't have fun with your code... well, then you just plain can't have fun.

CodeIgniter 1.7.0 Released

CodeIgniter 1.7.0 just released.  Get it while it’s hot!  New validation library, greatly enhanced form validation, some sexy loader enhancements and “whacks” of fixes including significant work in active record.  For a list of all changes please see the change log. My personal favourite is this bug which I was proud to squash:

Adding time to jQuery UI Datepicker

For some work I’m doing right now I needed the current time output into the input field that the (excellent) jQuery datepicker uses, but I don’t need it selectable by the user.  The default format is

Vimgrep and Vim Project

Chris Hartjes today was on a quest for a "find in project" feature for Vim. "Find in Project" was a feature of Textmate that he'd grown accustomed to and was having trouble finding an equivalent for.

Developing Facebook for iPhone

Last week I launched the second major iteration of Facebook's iPhone app, which finally lives up to our users' expectations and delivers most of the features they wanted. Getting here has been really challenging, and I'm finally at a point where I can reflect back on the experience and try to share what I've learned.

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