Monthly archives: June 2009

ZF Tutorial Changes

Just a short post on some changes in my tutorial series.
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Google and the Googlebot

Checking my website logs I came across an interesting stat. One of my visitors was the Googlebot, actually it visits quite frequently, but what made this interesting is what I saw in the log. Not only is it viewing the different pages it’s trying to access Javascript files.
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ZF Tutorial 3 – The Model

In the last post of this series I covered some basic groundwork on the MVC architecture. I briefly went over the three layers and what the role of each one is in an application. In this post I intend to give a more in-depth overview of the model.

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Docbook or AsciiDoc?

In the last couple of days I’ve been searching for a way to write some of my posts outside of the editor in Wordpress. I’ve been a user of the ViM editor for many years and I’ve gotten too used to editing documents with it. Using the editor in Wordpress seems to me to be slow and clunky.

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ZF Tutorial 2 – Model-View-Controller

Model-view-controller (MVC). What is it? What does it do? Is it helpful to web development? All valid questions. And questions this post will try to answer. To learn the Zend Framework it is imperative that you understand the theory behind MVC and how the architecture pattern works.

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