Author Archives: mrgierer
Twitter Bootstrap – no more excuses
Twitter Bootstrap is a very well structured set of CSS classes paired with some JavaScript components which makes it easy to create good looking websites. By default it has a Twitteresque look but it can be customized very extensively. Besides … Continue reading
phing: Publish PEAR package to channel
Publishing a PEAR package via a PEAR channel is normally done by uploading the package in the channels admin interface. While not a being very complicated task it asks for automation when releasing regularly. So I created a small phing … Continue reading
XDebug with Zend Server CE on MacOS X Snow Leopard
After (finally) upgrading my Mac to Snow Leopard (a little late – I know) the xdebug module stopped working. I got “Failed loading /usr/local/zend/lib/php_extensions/xdebug.so: (null)” when launching php in Terminal (e.g. with running phpunit). Reinstalling xdebug did not help and … Continue reading
Interesting article on references in PHP
Johannes Schlüters wrote a very interesting article on references in PHP. Already its title “Do not use PHP references” hints on its main conclusion: References in PHP are bad. Do not use them. They hurt and will just mess with … Continue reading
Ubuntu: Diff tool with file browser integration
Having installed a new Ubuntu VM (for testing purposes) I was looking for visual diff tool with nice UI integration. Windows users: think of WinMerge being launched by selecting two files in Explorer and compare them from the context menu. … Continue reading
Interruptions
Throughout the last weeks and month I made experiences by myself to that subject. Lately I found two very nice statements about this topic: First an article title “The Number One Developer Productivity Tool” (via @weierohpinney) which refers to an article … Continue reading
25 Jahre SWR1 Leute
Die SWR1- Sendung “Leute” feiert heute ihr 25. Jubiläum. Dazu herzlichen Glückwunsch ! Ich habe den Leute-Podcast seit 4.9.2006 (damals zu Gast: Prof. Dieter Jauch, Direktor der Wilhelma) abonniert und seither auch fast keine Folge verpasst. Über die Zeit kamen … Continue reading
Using Minify in a Zend Framework project
Minify is a project to help you improve your website performance by grouping, compressing and caching CSS and/or JS files. To use it in a Zend Framework project I suggest the following steps: 1. Download und unpack Minify 2. Split … Continue reading
Strange effects with phing in Mac terminal app
When using phing from a Mac terminal command line you might notice that its output is not displayed correctly, unless you triple click the output area. To fix this the phing scripts needs to be fixed. Locate the script with: … Continue reading
Video: Scrum in under 10 minutes
Nice video about how to start with Scrum:
