Personal blog of Yzmir Ramirez

The latest release of PHP has been announced, PHP 5.2.9 is out and available for download. This release includes 4 major security/stability fixes, and numerous other enhancements as well.

As of version 1.7, Zend Framework includes an extension for native Adobe Action Message Format (AMF) communication between Adobe Flash Platform applications and PHP. The Zend Framework includes extensions for a vast array of common programming tasks, including database connectivity and abstraction, e-mail, authentication, and third-party application programming interface (API) access. Most of these are useful in Flex applications, and with Zend_Amf, leveraging them has never been easier. In this article, you create a Flex application that takes advantage of some useful Zend Framework extensions.

On his blog Ian Selby wrote a tutorial that takes you from ground up in building a REST API using PHP. It explains what REST is, why you would consider it over SOAP, and then step by step takes you through constructing the code to make it all happen.

I’ve recently pretty much fell in love with an observer design pattern. You can basically build the whole application on it using awesome power of event driven programming. What exactly is an observer pattern? Basically we have an object you want to monitor ( observe ) for any changes. Most of the time this object just fires out events and we want to listen to them. We can have more objects observing one or more other objects so basically this can be M:N relationship.

On his blog Nabeel Shahzad goes through creating a deployment using Phing, replacing nasty shell scripts; extracting from Subversion, variable replacements and file manipulation, and creating multiple deployment types in one build file.

If you don’t already know Google provides a free service for hosting your open-sourced projects called Google Code.

When you create a project define the license you want to use (i.e. GPL2, GPL3, etc…).

Today at work I made a Zend_Acl – Resource / Role / Privilege Viewer that I wish I could share, but can’t.  Pretty straight forward, globs the resources by their file names and instantiates all the roles on another glob.  Overrode the allow/deny in Zend_Acl to save the privileges and then use that to display a table of all the isAllowed calls for a specific resource for all the roles for their privileges.

Was looking around to see if there are any open-sourced projects and didn’t find any.

Wiring up physicians from small practices will be one of the biggest hurdles.

Physicians and information specialists across the country are feverishly figuring out how to best prepare for the impending availability of $19 billion designated for health-care IT spending in the newly signed stimulus bill. Broadly deploying electronic health records (EHRs), they say, will require special support for small private practices across the country.

In my humble opinion we need to fix things like the vulnerability of DNS servers and SSL certificates, before something like this goes into effect. (more…)

An excellent article has been posted on Federico Cargnelutti’s blog that steps the reader through the process of consuming a Web Service and building an application based upon it. In this example he builds a simple class that extends Zend_Rest_Client, that allows easy access to the Digg API.