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Review, php|architect’s Guide to Programming with Zend Framework

The zend.com are initiating a beta certification program on Zend Framework. I received an email informed me that I could get a 50% discount on the exam fee and a free study guide if I schedule and attention the exam before the end of this month. I do have some working experience on the Zend [...]

Use Writer, the online Darkroom version!

As a blogger, you probably already knew Darkroom, a minimalist full-screen text editor( inspired by the WriteRoom a similar processor offer on Mac OS). What’s good about Darkroom is that it forces your focus your writing content and nothing else. It has no window caption bar, status bar, menu bar, tool bar or window borders. [...]

Learn to Design Web Themes and Templates with New Wiki

ThemesWiki.org is a new website designed to provide users with comprehensive, free guides for designing Web Themes and Templates. This site intends to ease the web design process by providing tutorials for a large number of systems at a common location.
It is often difficult to find a resource that is focused on providing quality, relevant [...]

WordPress problem: Url encoding on Tag’s slug.

When you define or assinge tags in wordpress, here is what WordPress does:
1. Every tag must have a name.
2. Every tag must have a slug, the url of the tag.
3. By default, WordPress will automatically generate the tag slug based on the name of the tag you entered.
4. However, if either the value of the [...]

Curl better than simplexml_load_file when web screen scrapping

As in my previous post, I briefly introduced how you can use SimpleXML object to load various web services’ API query urls, if you so choose to mashup a website with data provided by the various websites, such as YouTube and Amazon. Of course, the pay off comes when you use some affiliate code in [...]

How to use SimpleXML parsing XML data with namespace and CDATA

There are many social network websites (e.g. YouTube) and big brand websites(e.g. Amazon, Yahoo) use REST or SOAP or even RSS web services to provide the enormous data for developers. Using these data, we can build a website virtually with no own database at all, all the information are come from these big sites. The [...]

Zend PHP5 certification Exam study review 12: supplementary III

Ok, this is the last part of my reviews. This post listed some WEIRD and STRANGE questions I found in the phparch’s simulator exam. You may think these are some advanced features of the PHP5 language, but some of them are actually mention in the GUIDE also. However, some of the questions, I found that [...]

Zend PHP5 certification Exam study review 11: supplementary II

In this and the up-coming Post, I listed some extra questions I found during I took the phparch’s Vulcan Zend PHP 5 Certification Testings. This post listed some EASIER but will not be frequently asked in the actual exam I think. But, they are worthy noted here, they can also serve as check points for [...]

Zend PHP5 certification Exam study review 10: Supplementary I

Since I mentioned before, I didn’t included the Language Basic and Function topics in these series of reviews, because I think you should already have a good knowledge about them. Anyway, if you have more time, then you can following this post to review some of these features in PHP. It mainly includes PHP’s String(since [...]

Zend PHP5 certification Exam study review 9: OOP Design&Theory

Here is the second topic regarding the OOP paradigm. Trust me, read more about Design Pattern, don’t just for pass the exam sake. The exam regard to the Design Pattern and general OOP theory is very basic. Anyway, following I listed some basic Design Pattern may tested in the exam. Also, I think you should [...]

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