When doing web development, you need to test your work on many operating systems and browsers. Depending on your host operating system, you will also need to run virtual machines to test other operating systems and browsers. For this article, we are focusing on setting up different browsers/version on OS X (10.6 – Snow Leopard).
I’ve been searching for an efficient way to set created and modified date fields in MySQL. Of course, this can be done in the application you’re writing, however, I wanted to find a way to automatically do this on the database layer.
To keep things rolling, I’ve released another project called Reserved Word Search. With Reserved Word Search you can instantly find reserved words as you type. This is extremely useful when doing database design and/or designing an API.
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For the past couple of months, I’ve been working on a mashup service between gist.github.com and ideone.com. The service allows someone to execute a gist and view the results.
For more information, please check out GistDoIt! @ www.gistdoit.com.
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For the second part of my Zend Framework Best Practices series, I’d like to show you what I’ve found to be a simple and solid implementation of internationalizing your website.
Zend Framework already contains components like Zend_Locale and Zend_Translate to assist in internationalizing your website. You use the Zend_Locale instance in conjunction with the Zend_Translate to know what current locale is being used and how to translate the content. I’m going to show you how to implement these into your website.