Overview
The birth of a new MVC framework, like most others, is spawned by frustrations with the functionality of one or more other frameworks: too much emphasis on design theory, not enough in others, speed, flexibility… the list goes on. The Fever Framework is no different. In an attempt to find a happy medium [...]
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On April 24th, Travis Black and Brent Shaffer of Centre{source} will be presenting the Symfony PHP framework. This is our second demonstration after having Shawn McCool present CodeIgniter last month. We are excited to have Centre{source} and look forward to their demonstration.
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The April 2009 users group meeting will focus on the Symfony framework. We will be receiving a presentation from Centre{source} where one of the developers is on the Symfony development team. More details to come later.
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The chain-of-command pattern, like most others, assists with maintaining a loose coupling within your classes. By providing a series of classes that implement the ICommand interface and do a specific bit of processing, the developer doesn’t have to care which method to execute.
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The observer pattern provides another way to maintain loose coupling within your code. It’s an extremely simple pattern and is implemented similarly across languages. There are two parts: the observer and the observable object. Let’s address them both starting with the observer.
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The iterator pattern is one of the most useful, yet unused patterns defined. It provides a way for class users to count and iterate over a set of objects related to the class. This is very useful in MVC (Model-View-Controller) models as they handle data and the logic that pertains to it.
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The purpose of the factory pattern is to assist with maintaining loose coupling. Code that is tightly coupled is error prone in that if a class is changed, it can have a domino affect to other scripts using it. This is typical to large-scale systems and smaller systems that grow very fast.
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The singleton pattern is a common pattern used to make resources exclusive in that there is one of a particular type of resource. The most common usage of this is database connectivity. Typically, an application only wants a single connection to a single database server at any given time. This is where the singleton pattern comes in.
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The March Nashville PHP Users Group meeting details are now available. Shawn McCool will be presenting the CodeIgniter PHP Framework. The meeting will be at 1pm CST at Corky’s Brentwood. For additional details, please visit http://www.meetup.com/nashville-php/calendar/9769825/.
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PHP has announced the release of 5.2.9. To download this release, visit http://www.php.net/archive/2009.php#id2009-02-26-1.
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I have recently been exploring Bluetooth technology with Java. The BlueCove project provides an easy to use, platform-independent library for using local and remote Bluetooth devices. If you aren’t pleased with BlueCove, you can use the J2ME version distributed by Sun. So, what can you do with Bluetooth? In short, just [...]
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I have updated the zip code web service to fix some issues with the data returned from getLocalTime. Prior to this fix, only the 12 hour format was displayed without the proper meridiem (AM or PM). The time was also off by one hour.
This fix adds two additional children:
currentMilitaryTime – The 24 hour [...]
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