August 2009 Archives

I finally sprung for an iPhone, picking up a new shiny 3Gs over the weekend. I'm still getting used to it, my previous phone was very "dumb", but honestly I'm having mixed feelings about the constant connection. I know now that I can pretty much always check Twitter, but that doesn't mean I should. Frankly there are many times I enjoy being completely disconnected, but now I can't really do that unless I leave my phone off/behind.

I'm very excited to start developing though. As the internet becomes more and more accessible through devices like this, it becomes more and more important to make our sites compatible and in some situations optimized for small screen size.

I'm reading up on Zend Db Table as part of getting to better know the technologies we've adopted at Delta Systems Group and have found that now as of Zend Framework 1.9 you no longer "have to extend a base class and configure it to do simple operations such as selecting, inserting, updating and deleteing on a single table".

That's welcome news from the last time I took a look at Zend (circa release 1.4ish). Zend has really grown since then and it's quickly become an exciting platform for PHP developers such as myself.