Archive for the 'Tutorials' Category

How to remove the — signature seperator in Thunderbird

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

This is something that really bothers people in the business world when switching to Thunderbird from Outlook. In my opinion Thunderbird should make the dash-dash-space sigblock separator optional, or at least have a config option to turn it off.
The reason is that many people do not use a “signature” as a random block of information […]

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PHP updates

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

A flurry of PHP updates this week… on the heels of PHP5.2 we have ezPublish 3.9 and Zend Framework 0.60 and ezcomponents. While I have updated the PHP version on the server, I’m holding out on ezPublish and ZF till the holiday weekends.
I released the 5th article on my Zend Framework Hidden Gems series, this […]

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Zend Framework Hidden Gems

Monday, November 20th, 2006

Just a quick note to let my planetary friends that I’ve created a page that is tracking all information about my Zend Framework Hidden Gems series of articles.
More information on my Zend Framework Hidden Gems page.
I’m not going to waste blog space reiterating what is covered in the link above, but just wanted to mention […]

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EZPT: Templating Best Practices

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

After a week of intense work on EZP templates, it quickly becomes apparent where you have made mistakes with the designing of your templates. Most of this stuff is just common sense, if anyone has any other pointers please comment, or post URLs for where this has been discussed.
CSS Rocks
EZP works best with CSS based […]

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Doing Cool Things with VIM - Yanking

Saturday, June 10th, 2006

<rant>
The worst thing about the majority of VIM tutorials/books is that they start in the most obvious place. If I’m interested in a text editor and after reading the first chapter of a book all I know how to do is move the cursor around, I’m not going to be that impressed. Lets face it, […]

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