Posts tagged "Zend Framework"

At the end of my recent post on building a cron service for Zend Framework applications, I mentioned a couple of weaknesses in my approach, most notably the lack any kind of locking mechanism. This post shows how to fix that.

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I recently took the opportunity to build a simple cron task manager for this blog; since the resulting system could easily be adapted to other Zend Framework applications, I figured I'd better share.

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Zend_Acl is a powerful tool to help manage access control logic, but it can be difficult to determine just where and how to use it. Today, I'll show you how this blog manages access control using Zend_Acl with some custom Doctrine record listeners.

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This has been a year of busy weekends for Jamie and I, but these last couple of days have been a nice exception, especially after how busy last weekend was.

Late Friday afternoon I took off a little early from work so I could put together a simple patch for one Zend Framework issue; I can happily say I've participated in my first ZF bug hunt. I don't get to work much with Zend Framework in my day job, but it's always fun when I have enough free time available to contribute something, even if it's only two or three lines of code.

Saturday, I got up early to take the dogs in for a haircut; PetSmart did a very good job, especially on Wembley:

After that, we met up with Jamie's parents in Mesquite for a Gilmer ISD playoff football game. I'm not really much of a football fan myself, but it's fun to spend an afternoon out in the fresh air with the wife and in-laws …and the game caught my attention a few times, so it must have been good :)

Yesterday, meanwhile, was another great day at church; we played in the orchestra in the morning and then helped lead a combined kindergarten/preschool choir rehearsal. I think we're getting pretty good at wearing the kids out towards the beginning of practice; they tend to rehearse better if you give them a little bit of crazy right when they get there. I'm really impressed with how well they're handling the rests; we're doing a medley, and most of the kids stood absolutely still and silent between songs. We still need to work on the words a bit, but once that's taken care of I think we're going to have a great concert!

Recently, I've stumbled across a few rather interesting blog posts on how Drupal is perceived in other parts of the PHP development community. Thought I'd post the links and make a few comments here.

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