Daily Archives: January 11, 2009

Zend Framework as a glue framework part 1: the router

For some time now there have been lots of discussions regarding the use of frameworks. Some say it causes too much overhead, is a deal breaker from a performance point of view and forces you to adapt your project to the standards of the framework. Others defend the DRY (Do Not Repeat Yourself) principles and

Iterators 101: make your data go “loopty-loop”

All developers constantly come into contact with amounts of data stored in arrays or objects. Getting a hold of the particular chunk of data depends on the type of input you’re dealing with and the way you want manage and output it. If you’re dealing with arrays all is well and you can easily loop