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    PHP 5.4 – What’s new?

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    / 23/01/2012 / 11 Comments
    PHP 5.4 will be stable soon. In this post I’ll try to give you an overview and examples of the new PHP 5.4 features. If you want to try out PHP 5.4 (which is currently in RC6), it has to be installed first. I suggest that you try this out...

  3. Using Complex Type with Zend_Soap

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    / 23/09/2011 / 4 Comments
    To be able to use complex types with Soap requests, they need to be fully defined in the WSDL file. Zend_Soap can automate this process, if you know how to define those complex types. Let us start without it Zend_Soap’s magic and compare it with a fully discovered complex request...

  4. Introduction to Sass

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    / 26/08/2011 / Leave a comment
    Sass, or Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets, promises us to rid us from annoyances over CSS. And it delivers! Over the passed few months I have noticed an increasing interest for Sass and other CSS alternatives, especially in the developer community. Ofcourse this peaked my interest too, and I started playing...

  5. Symfony2 launch party

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    / 26/07/2011 /
    On Thursday (28th july) Symfony2 will be officially released as stable. To celebrate this, King Foo will be organizing a launch party in Leuven. If you are a PHP developer and care (or just curious) about Symfony, come and join us at Bar Esperança. It’s on the second floor, right...

  6. Catch Firebird events with Node.js

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    / 01/07/2011 / 4 Comments
    In this post, I’ll try to explain how you can use Node.js to catch events on Firebird. Although Microsoft announced last week to contribute resources towards porting Node to Windows, it currently does not run out of the box on Windows. You can try to run it with Cygwin. In...

  7. A first attempt at the PHP Excel extension

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    / 10/05/2011 / 4 Comments
    We needed a somewhat more advanced Excel file generation toolset for one of our customers and decided to take Ilia Alshanetsky’s Excel extension for PHP for a spin. The extension exposes LibXL‘s power. LibXL allows for generating and editing XLS files, and extracting data from them. There are some code...

  8. Jenkins webinar for Zend

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    / 03/05/2011 /
    The recording of a webinar I gave about “Using Jenkins/Hudson for Continuous Builds” is available online at Zend’s webinar page. Jenkins, the successor of Hudson, can be used to continuously build and deploy your code and database upgrades. Continuous builds can be used to have snapshots of a work in...

  9. Presentation on Building Web Services with ZF

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    / 14/07/2010 /
    Yesterday, I tried a first attempt at presenting some info on ‘Building Web Services with Zend Framework’. Feedback is collected here and the slideshow is embedded below. Building Web Services with Zend Framework (PHP Benelux meeting 20100713 Vlissingen) View more presentations from King Foo.