I've so far worked only very little with XML with namespaces, especially in terms of parsing it. Therefor, I was quite stumped today on the parsing of a particular snippet of XML which contained an element that had an xlink:href attribute. I just couldn't get that attribute's value out. The solution, as often seems to be the case, is quite simple.
posted on May 30, 2008 - 33 comment(s) - tags: simplexml, xml, namespaces, phpI was already quite proud when I got the possibility to work at Ibuildings. They've shown to be (one of) the most professional PHP companies in the Netherlands, and after they partnered with Zend, it all became even more interesting. Now, I am even more proud to work for Ibuildings; they just announced a partnership with PHP|Architect.
posted on May 23, 2008 - 0 comment(s) - tags: ibuildings, zend, php|architect, phpEven though in this day and age of Javascript, most people do not really think about this anymore, it can still be important to have your site working when someone either has no javascript or has it turned off. It does happen, so you better think about it a bit. Symfony has some neat features for graceful degradation.
posted on May 18, 2008 - 17 comment(s) - tags: php, symfony, javascript, graceful degradation, usability, accessibilityRecently I wrote a review of Getting Real , the book by the guys from 37signals. But how, if at all, does this apply to, for instance, symfony ? Let's take some points from the book and see how symfony does...
posted on May 8, 2008 - 17 comment(s) - tags: symfony, php, getting real, agile, decoratorWhen I recently did a presentation at pfCongrez , as a thank you I got the book Getting Real by the people of 37Signals. I had until then not heard of the book yet, but it's an excellent view on software development.
posted on May 4, 2008 - 0 comment(s) - tags: book, review, ruby on rails, symfony, getting real, methodology, agileJust a small heads-up that a new post of mine has been published on the Ibuildings weblog, with refactoring as the topic.
posted on May 2, 2008 - 0 comment(s) - tags: meta, refactoring, best practices
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