Monthly Archives: July 2007

Solar: From Blog to Docs

Posted on Fri, 20 Jul, 2007 by pmjones

Quick note: the blog entries of the past few days have been converted to manual entries at the Solar website. Views and Layouts Using HTTP Sending Mail The translation went pretty quickly, because I wrote the original blog entries using … Continue reading →

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The Stenhouse CSS Framework and Solar

Posted on Thu, 19 Jul, 2007 by pmjones

Solar comes with a reference application, Solar_App_Bookmarks. As I outlined in an earlier post about views and layouts in Solar, the bookmarks application is extended from Solar_App_Base. The Base package holds all the layouts, and those layouts are what I … Continue reading →

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Sending Mail with Solar

Posted on Wed, 18 Jul, 2007 by pmjones

The recent release of Solar has new mailing components; click through to read more about how to use them, and how you can use the config file to automatically configure your SMTP and mail-transport dependency injections. Continue reading →

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Brief Intro to Solar_Http_Request and Response

Posted on Tue, 17 Jul, 2007 by pmjones

As I noted in an earlier post, Solar how has classes to represent simple HTTP requests and responses. Solar_Http_Request The Solar_Http_Request class represents a standalone HTTP request (i.e., it’s not an HTTP client, just a request). It uses adapters, so … Continue reading →

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Testivus (for the Rest of Us) and the Testing Gene

Posted on Mon, 16 Jul, 2007 by pmjones

The esteemed Sebastian Bergmann, author of PhpUnit, makes a great comment in my earlier post on testing and ravioli code. In the comment, he links to the Testivus Manifestivus from Alberto Savoia, which is about as non-dogmatic about testing as … Continue reading →

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TDD, Test-First, and Ravioli Code

Posted on Sat, 14 Jul, 2007 by pmjones

Do TDD and test-first dogmatism lead to ravioli code? I tend to think so, but you be the judge. Continue reading →

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Speaking at PHP Works 2007

Posted on Fri, 13 Jul, 2007 by pmjones

I got stiff-armed for ZendCon 2007 (apparently they don’t want presentations on competing frameworks ;-). However, the PHP Architect folks graciously accepted two of my talk proposals for php|works 2007 in Atlanta: Organizing Your PHP Projects, an updated version of … Continue reading →

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Solar 0.28 Alpha Released

Posted on Fri, 13 Jul, 2007 by pmjones

Last Friday I released Solar 0.28 alpha. (As usual, the guys on the mailing list got notification of this on the same day.) This is the first release in four months. The last time I delayed so long between releases … Continue reading →

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Solar Views and Layouts

Posted on Thu, 12 Jul, 2007 by pmjones

Looks like the Zend Framework project doesn’t have “complex views” settled just yet. I’m sure they’ll hit on a solution soon. In the mean time, let me show you how easy it is to work with views and layouts in … Continue reading →

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Zend Devzone Podcast: Solar Overview

Posted on Wed, 11 Jul, 2007 by pmjones

Cal Evans at Zend has posted my Solar Overview podcast. Thanks Cal! Click through to see the transcript (“script”, really ;-) of the audio.

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