A recent release of Zend Framework intruduced Zend_Application: an organized way to bootstrap the framework without the need of an ugly boostrap.php file. It comes with plugins support too, so let’s see how to create one. With Zend_Application you can not only setup all the components required (Zend_Table, Zend_View, Zend_Navigation, ecc) but you can also […]
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Update: See my guide on How to make your own Zend Framework Resource Plugin Building Facebook applications with Zend Framework, I’ve needed a debug console that can shows messages even in a Facebook canvas page, through an ajax request or a redirect. For this purpose I’ve build a custom plugin for ZF that fits the […]
Opera ha just announced Opera Unite: a web server that run inside the browser and that will offer functionalities similar to Google Weave. Who will win the real-time web war?
Zend_Tool is a command line tool released with the latest version of Zend Framework. It will jump-start the development automating some tasks like the creation of an empty project or of a controller class. Other than from the command line, its possible to use Zend_Tool directly from Eclipse, lets see how. First, download the framework […]
I’ve just finished a Facebook game, so here a quick tutorial on how to use Zend Framework to build a Facebook Application. Facebook basics You can integrate your application with facebook in two way: with an IFRAME (using XFBML) or with FBML. (If you are already familiar with how a Facebook application work you can […]
For all the 8bit lovers, visit the web site of this new york based band: Anamanaguchi and listen to their latest hit: Dawn Metropolis Anamanaguchi is a four-piece group from New York City that combines guitars with the thick, electronic tones of a hacked Nintendo Entertainment System. With driving, dynamic and melodic tracks, they focus […]
Google is exploring new ways to advertise its browser, releasing a YouTube channel with 11 shorts about Chrome, and its planning to advertise the browser with tv spots this weekend.
Today I’m stumbled upon this interesting site that shows the activity of the net in real time. Every time someone visit a site a flash light on the map.
Great news for multiplayer flash games! In the latest beta release of Flash Player 10, Adobe introduced the RTMFP support. In short this technology will allow P2P communication between players and UDP: Direct (P2P) communication between Flash players. Every flash application will be able to connect to another without going through a server, saving bandwidth […]
I’ve not blogged too much lately, however, there was some strange “activities” on my blog… Today someone in a comment warned me that I have some spam links in the footer visible only with javascripts disabled. I’ve updated wordpress some days ago because I’ve noticed some spam links in my sidebar, but as it seems […]