Archive for the “how-to” category
Rounded thumb image with CSS 3
by admin on July 17, 2012
In modern Mobile apps, RIA or fancy websites like to display thumb images with a little rounded corners. We can do it on web with very little effort using a little CSS3 technique. Just 3 simple 3 steps: Instead of (…)
Let's do with Drupal – Simplified Admin Panel
by admin on December 11, 2010
As you (if you’v at least installed and explored Drupal) know, Drupal‘s Admin panel is not comfortable for clients. It’s mostly developer centric and not similar to other common content managing panels. But, sometimes clients may need to manage some (…)
Setting up Database testing with Kohana UnitTest module
by admin on October 11, 2010
Kohana Unittest module has made testing in Kohana v3 easy and fun. Lysender wrote a cool, straight forward post about how to set it up and running. I’ll just talk here about how I have set up database testing with (…)
Freelancing; an alternate career
by admin on October 4, 2010
Yesterday, I’ve talked about “Freelancing; an alternate career” at a seminar on “BUILDING TECH CAREER” at DUET, Gazipur, Dhaka. Here is the slide. This seminar was arranged by PHPXperts, the leading PHP community of Bangladesh Freelancing; an alternate career View (…)
Extending Zend Form Element to create customized Phone number field
by admin on August 25, 2010
It’s Zend_Form_Element_Phone, a customized Zend Form Element for Phone Number. This will render 3 text fields for parts of phone number – country code, operator code and subscriber number. The values of these three fields jointly will be considered as the value. Optionally, a separator can be used between these fields. This separator can be ignored from/included in value
Extjs quick start guide for jQuery Developers
by admin on April 5, 2009
I’ve seen many people (including myself) trying out the power of jQuery for once and then getting stuck with it. Why not? It’s one of the coolest and smartest JavaScript library out there. However, I have broken out from the (…)
Advanced bootstrapping : Configure your Zend Framework application for multiple host
by admin on February 3, 2009
This tutorial is intended to explain a way of bootstrapping Zend Framework based MVC application for multiple host/domains. Before starting, let me explain a bit about the situation when it’s needed. A web application goes through some stages when growing (…)
Front-end optimization with PHP Speedy – increase Yslow grade in 10 minutes!
by admin on December 26, 2008
Before I move into PHP Speedy, a small background won’t hurt much! Until a few days back, whenever I hear the word optimization, my brain quickly shows a few keywords in my mental screen: “query optimization, page caching, opcode, etc”. (…)
Image manipulation in Zend Framework using PHP Thumbnailer Class v2.0
by admin on September 12, 2008
In the huge set of library, Zend Framework have no options for manipulating image. There is a proposal for Zend_Image which aimed to provides easier image manipulation using GD. But the proposal was not considered. Bill Karwin of ZF said, (…)