Monthly Archives: August 2009

First impressions of Symfony PHP Framework

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Tom

In the last few years, every project I’ve worked on has run on top of Zend Framework or a custom in-house framework. Most of my work involves extending existing applications and that’s the major reason I haven’t looked into any … Continue reading →

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Generating an SEO friendly URL in PHP

Posted on August 2, 2009 by Tom

Everyone wants pretty URLs right? Lots of key/pair GET values in URL strings look ugly and are bad for SEO. I was just messing about with a big database table of records that needed converting to SEO friendly urls and … Continue reading →

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jQuery 1.3.2 – To live is to die

Posted on August 1, 2009 by Tom

I’m sure anyone that has developed in javascript has had monumental headaches over the years trying to write code that allows event handlers to operate on dynamically created elements. The main problem I always seem to come across is assigning … Continue reading →

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The aims of this blog

Posted on August 1, 2009 by Tom

I find as a web developer that I’m constantly learning new things to get certain tasks done and then subsequently forgetting them if it’s not a skill that I use very often. This blog is an attempt to write down … Continue reading →

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