Recently I upgraded one of my projects from 1.6.1 to the latest in branch-1.8.x of the Zend Framework. This resulted in most of my 1200+ unit tests breaking for that project. After several hours of trying to figure out the cause of the break, I managed to stumble onto the differences that is causing the problems I was experiencing.
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While working on one of my consulting projects, I was having a difficult time finding documentation anywhere online on how to use the Dojo Drag-n-Drop (dojo.dnd) features with forms. I wasn’t too keen on making JSON calls or writing a whole-lotta JavaScript to solve my problem. Well, luckily I managed to derive a solution rather quickly. Read on for more details.
This was an article I began writing several months ago. I didn’t want to abandon it, so I’m finishing it up now. It’s merely an informational and doesn’t contain a lot of depth. It’s meant for the introductory users.
For those PHP developers who have been frustrated with how to create a standard layout for pages other than having to remember to put an opening div block after the header includes and a closing div block before the footer includes, listen up. Things are about to get much easier. In fact, those PHP developers who have done ASP.Net programming in the past, you’re about to get much more pleased with PHP. The only drawback, which is more of a gain anyways, is you have to use the Zend Framework. Note that this topic is for those people who are not blessed withing already using a layout or template engine and are forced to do things the old way. Those of you who are using something like Smarty may not benefit from this, but keep reading anyways. 
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The last year or so I have dabbled in C# .Net development, which was quite a bit different from PHP development. The .Net Framework is absolutely huge, the capabilities are endless, and the tools to help me develop faster far outnumber those of PHP. Furthermore, there are many within the community that work like true pragmatic developers (J.P. Boodhoo is one). These developers think about how best to organize your application and help to bring true automation to a project. Further, they work to eliminate conflict from workstation to workstation. In short, I’m talking about organization and management of code for rapid and agile development no matter who is on the team or how those team member’s workstations are setup. When moving back from .Net development to PHP, though, this type of mentality hasn’t quite made it.
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