Development

Posted in Development, Zend Framework, php on January 25, 2010

Zend_Pdf and damaged PDF files in acrobat

Playing with Zend_Pdf all my files open perfectly in preview.app. But switching to Adobe Acrobat I got this error: Adobe Reader could not open 'file.pdf' because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and ... Continue Reading

Posted in Development, Zend Framework, php on January 8, 2010

Zend_Form, Validators and Custom Error Messages

Below is a code snippet if you want a simple sign-up form on you website using Zend_Form. Features are set email adres to lowercase using Zend_Filter_StringToLower. Use Zend_Validate_Emailaddress, to check the correctness of the email address. Check password for StringLenght; minimal 6 & ... Continue Reading

Posted in Development, Snow Leopard, apache on December 4, 2009

FileVault and Web development

I use FileVault on my Snow Leopard setup to protect my precious code. When I turned it on my local apache couldn’t accesss my local test folder of PHP code anymore. To correct this you need to adjust the apache user in the httpd.conf. You can find the snippet below around line number ... Continue Reading

Posted in Development on November 26, 2009

Zend Studio 7.1 beta and Mylyn

Doing a update check in the Zend Studio 7.1 beta generates an error when trying to update the Mylyn connectors Cannot complete the install because of a conflicting dependency. Software being installed: Mylyn WikiText SDK 1.2.0.v20091015-0500-e3x (org.eclipse.mylyn.wikitext.sdk.feature.g ... Continue Reading

Posted in Development, phpUnderControl on October 31, 2009

R.I.P. ZendCodeAnalyzer

In the new Zend Studio 7.1 beta the ZendCodeAnalyzer binary plugin is replaced by acom.zend.php.semanticanalysis.core_7.1.0 eclipse plugin. The functionality seems the same, but there is one drawback… I use the old ZendCodeAnalyzer in combination with php_codesniffer to check for pot ... Continue Reading

Posted in Development, JIRA, jiraPress, wordpress on October 18, 2009

jiraPress released

I just created my first wordpress plugin. It’s a very small but handy plugin for making hyperlinks to JIRA issue trackers. I’m using it already here in this post. A changelog post with links to the actual issues is now just a matter op copy-pasting… Check the jiraPress pa ... Continue Reading

Posted in Development, JSON, Software on October 16, 2009

just released: JSONView 0.4

Version 0.4 was released a few days ago, adding support for JSONP. JSONView is a add-on for firefox and really helps debugging JSON server-respones. Read about version 0.4 in the developers blog. Continue Reading