Just wanted to show all of you who use OO PHP a technique that is quite familiar to old-time C++ programmers, but generally not so well known in the PHP world (think auto_ptr). This technique allow...

I recently converted an old(er) Zend Framework based application to the new Zend_Application/Zend_Bootstrap style bootstrap approach. In doing so, I of course started down the path of creating comp...

I have occasionally been plagued by less-than-stellar performance while using ZendStudio 6.x.x series. It happened again the other day, and I finally made some progress in tracking it down, so let ...

The problem So I am using the WSF/PHP web services for a project. All was fine until web service usage increased. After a while, web service calls started timing out (3o seconds exceeded). Regular...

So you are working with WSO2’s WSF/PHP web services for PHP framework and you need to receive web service calls that contain a username token so you can identify the caller, and apply some password...

Yesterday everything was fine, tonight I noticed my 17” MacBook Pro was wobbling like a table on uneven ground. I looked under it, and the battery appeared to have come loose. I shut everything dow...

I am doing a lot of baking (mostly bread) lately, and I have developed some helpful information for other bakers. Here is an Excel spreadsheet for performing all kinds of dough calculations. Th...

I have put together a bunch of information about the AOR AR8000 scanner. There is a command reference, an EEPROM contents listing, and a downloadable EEPROM file.