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Book Review of Pro Drupal Development by John K. VanDyk and Matt Westgate, published by Apress

July 3rd, 2007 by Rich Zygler
tags: Books, Drupal, PHP | 1 Comment »

Quite often web developers are faced with having to overcome problems quickly and efficiently without having much background in the problem area. Good tools and good documentation are your best friends in a situation like this. Recently, I was tasked with whipping up a website driven by Drupal ...

Drupal for single hierarchy corporate website

July 2nd, 2007 by Rich Zygler
tags: Drupal, Ideas, PHP, Web Design | No Comments »

We needed a content management system (CMS) for a website at work for 3 reasons: So the developers could be out of the content maintenance loop. So the developers could be out of the content maintenance loop. So the developers could be out of the content maintenance loop. I remember when I first started ...

Reports of my death were greatly exaggerated

July 2nd, 2007 by Rich Zygler
tags: General | No Comments »

Yes, I have been away from blogging for awhile. No, I am not dead. I have been busy with two things. Recouping from a back injury. And slam-dunking a large project at the day job.Share this via del.icio.us, digg, email, etc.

Google Gears for offline browsing

June 4th, 2007 by Rich Zygler
tags: AJAX, Google, JavaScript | No Comments »

I'm a couple of days behind in the news here (darn vacation days!)... but Google Gears is out and promises to shake up website development as it uses browser extensions to offload data down to the client instead of making continued requests to the server.  Of course the catch is ...

Yes you, Mr. ASP.NET developer can use a hosted open source Subversion source control for your projects also

May 25th, 2007 by Rich Zygler
tags: .NET, Subversion, TortoiseSVN, Visual Studio | No Comments »

For some reason, most .NET devs that I run into insist on using closed source applications for everything they do. I have no idea why. I guess it's a culture thing. That's why I love it when a mostly ASP.NET fellow starts using something open source, like ...

Facebook.com opens up facebook platform similar to ning.com

May 25th, 2007 by Rich Zygler
tags: Facebook, General, Ning, PHP | No Comments »

Read about the new developer environment for Facebook.com on cnn.com. I can't tell yet if this is Facebook.com adopting some of the Ning.com philosophy of "create your own social network" or if it's just a giant widget factory on steroids. No longer will Facebook consider itself merely another social network. ...

PHP is not doomed. But perhaps open source development of it is.

May 18th, 2007 by Rich Zygler
tags: PHP | 2 Comments »

Read this today from Jeremy Privett "Is PHP Doomed?"  Internal devs fighting over the future of the language could be construed negatively, but I don't think it matters at all.  Until someone starts talking about forking PHP, I think we're on safe ground. As an outsider, I wonder how much pull ...

How to for SSH, Subversion (SVN), Putty, Tortoise, and Zend Studio 5.x using svn+ssh

April 11th, 2007 by Rich Zygler
tags: PHP, SSH, Subversion, Zend IDE | No Comments »

Attempting to connect my new Windows machine with Zend Studio 5.1 using svn+ssh to an svn repository on Linux, I am obliged to once again stand on the shoulders of giants that have come before me. Here's some "how tos" that got me through it. Logemann Blog - Subversion / ...