Programming

Ext JS or Ext GWT

Posted by: Jordan in Programming, AJAX on Nov 18, 2008

If you are a web developer and haven't seen Ext framework you should take a look. The widgets offered can allow you to create rich internet applications which will eventually eliminate the need for client applications. The libraries make fetching an XML document and immediately presenting the data to the user without refreshing the page trivial (AJAX). In this respect, it is a very similar

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Procedural Programming vs Object Oriented Programming

Posted by: orjan in Programming, Object Oriented Programming, Design Patterns on Nov 09, 2008

Just giving a few thaugts on this subject, sitting up and can't sleep, 3:37am...

To start with, I mainly code PHP, just to let you get a feeling on what I'm talking about in some ways.

I know the basics in OOP, that's not a problem. I've written a few classes here and there, when I have found it useful. The problem I have is that in most cases, I find the OOP less useful than procedural programming

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eXtreme Programming

Posted by: Jordan in Programming on Nov 04, 2008

In several of the books I've read it has mentioned eXtreme Programming (also called XP) so I decided to do some research on it. XP is a programming methodology that advanced programmers follow (and many companies). Entire books have been written on the idea including one from the original inventor of XP.

The idea behind it is simply genius. XP gives developers a set of rules that should be

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Performance or Maintainability

Posted by: Jordan in Programming on Aug 19, 2008

I've been thinking about a question I was asked on a practice exam I took earlier this week. The question appears to have no valid answer....

In a general sense, which is more important: performance or maintainability of an application?

Answers...
performance first, maintainability second
Maintainability first, performance second
Maintainability
Performance

So, being the

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PHP Reflection and Plugins

Posted by: Jordan in Programming, PHP, Object Oriented Programming on Aug 14, 2008

The PHP reflection API allows you to view metadata and comments in your PHP scripts which allow you to create highly expandable PHP scripts. It may seem trivial, the ability to look at your own source code from your script but the set of classes and methods provided by this API give you the ability to create easy plugin features, invoke code pragmatically and create instances of code.

Imagine you

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PHP: Study

Posted by: Jordan in Programming, PHP on Aug 08, 2008

It has been a while since I wrote a blog so I thought I'd write about what I've been doing. For the past month I've been studying for Zend Certified Engineer test which is a PHP test. From what I can tell the test asks very tricky questions that require you to have a working knowledge of many PHP functions (with Arrays and Strings being the largest two). So far I've managed to memorize most of

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Random Numbers

Posted by: John in Programming on Aug 05, 2008

Have you ever been in a conversation where someone blurts out something completely off topic? You say to yourself, “well, that was random.” Chances are, unless that person suffers from a mental disability, that spew of “random” verbiage was not really random.

What is randomness?
The Oxford English Dictionary defines random as “made, done, or happening without method or conscious

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Zend Studio for Eclipse Training: Day 3/4

Posted by: Jordan in Programming, PHP on Jul 23, 2008

Since there wasn't many sections to go over and the features that we went over are easy to use (and self explanatory) I decided to combine Day 3 and 4 into one blog. Luckily I didn't have the same problem on Day 4 as I did on Day 3 which I described here: Cracking Vista Passwords.

As always I'll use this blog to take notes with, more for my reference than for yours. The class covers a lot of

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Zend Studio for Eclipse Training: Day 2

Posted by: Jordan in Programming, PHP on Jul 21, 2008

After a week delay we began Day 2 of Zend Studio for Eclipse training. You may have read my first blog which described day 1 of training, if not, you can read it here: Zend Studio for Eclipse Training: Day 1

As with previous classes I'll use this blog to describe what we did and take general notes.

Zend Framework
The Zend Framework is composed of several components and a flexible architecture that

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PHP: gzip Compression

Posted by: Jordan in Programming, PHP on Jul 17, 2008

gzip is a compression algorithm similar to zip and rar formats. Using gzip to compress files before transmission can cause your page to load faster and save bandwidth on your server/webhost. Most (if not all) modern browsers support the gzip compression allowing you to utilize it in your PHP scripts.

How do you enable it?
It may sound like a lot of coding but PHP does most of the work for you.

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