Realm of Zod » Development http://blog.realmofzod.com Programming and Technology Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:34:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 mySQL FIFO and Thoughts on Data Posterity http://blog.realmofzod.com/mysql-fifo-and-thoughts-on-data-posterity/ http://blog.realmofzod.com/mysql-fifo-and-thoughts-on-data-posterity/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:29:12 +0000 brandon http://blog.realmofzod.com/?p=312
I am working on a project that will track the actions of users and store them in a database in order to build an activity stream not dissimilar to Facebook’s news feed. Right away I can see that I am very quickly going to accumulate more data than i can possibly manage using conventional methods [...]]]> http://blog.realmofzod.com/mysql-fifo-and-thoughts-on-data-posterity/feed/ 1 Dynamic paths in external javascript and stylesheets http://blog.realmofzod.com/dynamic-paths-in-external-javascript-and-stylesheets/ http://blog.realmofzod.com/dynamic-paths-in-external-javascript-and-stylesheets/#comments Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:46:13 +0000 brandon http://blog.realmofzod.com/?p=252 http://blog.realmofzod.com/dynamic-paths-in-external-javascript-and-stylesheets/feed/ 0 Silk CMS Progress http://blog.realmofzod.com/silk-cms-progress/ http://blog.realmofzod.com/silk-cms-progress/#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:17:15 +0000 brandon http://blog.realmofzod.com/?p=249 google code project page has been activated and that I have committed the project to svn. I don't want to go too much into the design philosophy here since I am planning a large article on CMS design in general however I wanted to start posting about my progress as it gets closer to a production-ready state. Thanks everyone for being patient. I actually created the google project page some time last year when I had been able to work on it and then there was a huge stint of client projects that bombarded me at eroi so I had to move the project to the back burner for a time. Suffice to say, I never had any intention of letting this project become vaporware and I can guarantee that it will not since I can certainly leverage it pretty effectively at my job.]]> http://blog.realmofzod.com/silk-cms-progress/feed/ 0 Remotely Managing WordPress with PHP http://blog.realmofzod.com/remotely-managing-wordpress-with-php/ http://blog.realmofzod.com/remotely-managing-wordpress-with-php/#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:56:10 +0000 brandon http://blog.realmofzod.com/?p=241 http://blog.realmofzod.com/remotely-managing-wordpress-with-php/feed/ 1 Get Geo Coordinates from Google Maps in PHP http://blog.realmofzod.com/get-geo-coordinates-from-google-maps-in-php/ http://blog.realmofzod.com/get-geo-coordinates-from-google-maps-in-php/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:00:21 +0000 brandon http://blog.realmofzod.com/?p=234 http://blog.realmofzod.com/get-geo-coordinates-from-google-maps-in-php/feed/ 0 Why HipHop is Hype and Facebook Looks Foolish http://blog.realmofzod.com/why-hiphop-is-hype-and-facebook-looks-foolish/ http://blog.realmofzod.com/why-hiphop-is-hype-and-facebook-looks-foolish/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:30:28 +0000 brandon http://blog.realmofzod.com/?p=236 http://blog.realmofzod.com/why-hiphop-is-hype-and-facebook-looks-foolish/feed/ 1 jQuery.imageLoader 1.0 Released http://blog.realmofzod.com/jquery-imageloader-1-0-released/ http://blog.realmofzod.com/jquery-imageloader-1-0-released/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:37:16 +0000 brandon http://blog.realmofzod.com/?p=222 http://blog.realmofzod.com/jquery-imageloader-1-0-released/feed/ 12 Dynamically Manage Models with Zend_CodeGenerator http://blog.realmofzod.com/dynamically-manage-models-with-zend_codegenerator/ http://blog.realmofzod.com/dynamically-manage-models-with-zend_codegenerator/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:30:01 +0000 brandon http://blog.realmofzod.com/?p=179 http://blog.realmofzod.com/dynamically-manage-models-with-zend_codegenerator/feed/ 2 Domain Model ORM Adapters http://blog.realmofzod.com/domain-model-orm-adapters/ http://blog.realmofzod.com/domain-model-orm-adapters/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:59:12 +0000 brandon http://blog.realmofzod.com/?p=173 Doctrine ORM (Object Relational Mapper). Given the nature of domain model programming I've held to the assertion that models built using this method are truly ORM agnostic and it should be effortless to swap out Doctrine for the ORM of your choice. Well I like to put my money where my mouth is by showing how easily this has been done by showing off adapters that I have written, one for Doctrine, and the other for Zend_Db. The beauty of this system is that both support the same ORM agnostic query syntax demonstrated in my recent post about creating complex sql queries using associative arrays. This means that no modifications are necessary in the models, controllers or views when switching ORMs. Developer's utopia. ]]> http://blog.realmofzod.com/domain-model-orm-adapters/feed/ 1 Load Your Ads Last http://blog.realmofzod.com/load-your-ads-las/ http://blog.realmofzod.com/load-your-ads-las/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:00:05 +0000 brandon http://blog.realmofzod.com/?p=162 adify, a aggregating ad platform which pipes in banners from a multitude of sources some with questionable practices in regards to loading performance. I had just launched a beatifully crafted website that employed all the tricks in the book for quick page loads and it was snappy... until we embedded the ad code. I like to load my images asynchronously and I like to execute javascript only once the document has finished loading so imagine the pain of patiently watching little animated gif spinners swirling away for as long as 6-30 seconds because the browser is choking on javascript from the banner ads in the middle of the page. Normally the solution would be to fix the javascript, but being a third party ad network, the embedded code was far beyond my control, so clearly this needed rethinking. I needed to figure out how to load the ads asynchronously as well.]]> http://blog.realmofzod.com/load-your-ads-las/feed/ 2