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Hello, My name is Rajarshi Chakraborty, and I am ...

2009-05-07T05:18:00.000-07:00

Hello,

My name is Rajarshi Chakraborty, and I am Vice President of Innovation Systems Private Limited, web design and software development Company. We specialize on all areas of custom software development, complete website solution, E-commerce and animation.

I invite you to look over our portfolio of latest web development projects.
http://www.invspl.com/portfolio/ or http://www.invsl.com/portfolio.html/

We also work using Elance.com, Getacoder.com, Getafreelancer.com and Guru.com

We're looking for business partners who fit in one of the following criterion:

1. Business consultants who can refer one or more software project(s) to us and earn a percentage of the project(s) revenue.
2. Individuals who are in charge of purchasing or outsourcing software development for an established organization.
3. Software development companies who look to outsource their software development work.

We offer either revenue share or commission based packages for the above eligible candidates
We are open to discuss with any further business possibilities.

Looking forward to your reply,

For Innovation Systems Private Limited.

Rajarshi Chakraborty.
Vice President.

Software Research & Development Centre.
203, Sarat Bose Road.
Kolkata-700029

Phone: +91.33.40089512 / +91.33.40089511
Mobile: +91.9830970585 / +91.9231800482
Email: rajarshi@invsl.com / innovation.kolkata@gmail.com

Website: www.invspl.com / www.invsl.com

I recently came accross your blog and have been re...

2009-04-09T02:07:00.000-07:00

I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

Joannah

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I recently came accross your blog and have been re...

2009-04-03T23:07:00.000-07:00

Thanks for the updates via your blog. Do you know ...

2009-01-14T00:02:00.000-08:00

Thanks for the updates via your blog. Do you know of plans for a PHP variation for Java portlets...? About another issue, I have recently developed a free PHP course... and would be very glad for feedbacks. http://www.lifemichael.com/en/?p=281

The 2009 will be a year of NetBeans PHP. The Czech...

2009-01-12T23:19:00.000-08:00

The 2009 will be a year of NetBeans PHP. The Czechs are racing toward a best PHP IDE. Watch the upcoming Netbeans 7.0
http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/

I am very sad that the full Unicode support still ...

2009-01-12T23:14:00.000-08:00

I am very sad that the full Unicode support still isn't the highest priority of PHP development team. How long must we wait?

Mr. wishlist: installing php will those options wi...

2009-01-09T04:28:00.000-08:00

Mr. wishlist: installing php will those options with ports on FreeBSD is a breeze. You'll need to be more specific.

Also, I too still prefer the old Zend Studio to the new ZSE. Support for the old version was very mediocre when ZSE wasn't around yet (very few releases in the 5.x series and the latest, 5.5.1, is still quite buggy in some areas) but now there's nothing noticable going on there anymore. Not really surprising because Eclipse is of course a very robust and extensible platform to build on, but after trying to get used to it several times and following different migration tutorials I keep reverting back to ZS 5.5.1, Eclipse is too confusing and slow.

Andi, when can we expect PDT2 based version of ZSE...

2009-01-08T06:27:00.000-08:00

Andi, when can we expect PDT2 based version of ZSE?

I do agree that a ZF-based, Zend or community-supp...

2009-01-08T02:43:00.000-08:00

I do agree that a ZF-based, Zend or community-supported CMS would be great.
It would make learning ZF easier, and yes it would allow for cookie-cutter sites, but how is that bad ?

Great post Andy, keep up the great Zend works!. Bu...

2009-01-08T00:31:00.000-08:00

Great post Andy, keep up the great Zend works!.
But what i miss (and that's something i'm missing for some time now) is what Zend is going to do with the old Editor (Zend Studio). Not everybody likes the eclipse based IDE and Zend made a statement that they also keep supporting/developing the old IDE. But in practice.....

So any news on that would be welcome!

To the list wisher:PHP5 is simple to get going on ...

2009-01-07T21:33:00.000-08:00

To the list wisher:

PHP5 is simple to get going on RHEL/CentOs and the like. I'm not sure what distribution made you pull your hair out but I'm sorry to hear it.

I also agree that PEAR and PECL shouldn't be mandatory and that's why I like Zend Framework - it stands alone. At least, any classes I've used have not needed support from non-standard extensions, and in fact many go through pains to work with whatever facilities are available in the hosting environment.

I also agree that Zend Framework is not the best choice if your aim is just to roll out dozens of cookie-cutter CMS sites, blogs, shopping carts, etc. There are far easier tools available with far less wheel to reinvent. Or even Symfony or Cake, if it's really scaffolding and code generation tools that you need.

Yourthird paragraph is the most confusing because you call Zend MVC "strange" and proceed to describe how it should work, but this is in fact how it does work. The only difference that I can see is that you want to put what ZF calls "action" code in your models, which ZF discourages but certainly doesn't bar you from doing.

Also, If you don't like Zend_Form, don't use it. We don't. Same with Zend_Db_Select - just because you can invent fluid interfaces to assemble HTML forms and SQL statements doesn't mean it should always be done.

Thanks for the great post Andy.

2009-01-07T20:37:00.000-08:00

Thanks for the great post Andy.

My wishlist for 2009 or 2010:- Ever take a non-Deb...

2009-01-03T11:46:00.000-08:00

My wishlist for 2009 or 2010:

- Ever take a non-Debian system and try to get the very latest PHP5 going on it, complete with gd libraries, SQL drivers, xml drivers, etc.? It's a complete pain to have to do a build like that.

- I don't prefer things that require me to install them with PEAR or PECL. It's impossible on a shared host for my clients.

- Zend Framework is the strangest API I've ever seen and the devs using it or creating it need to get over themselves. I mean, case in point is the ZF stuff for cookies. I could do those routines far better and with a more intuitive API. Next is ZF Forms API, which makes your website look like it was drawn up in 1990 and doesn't take in the whole concept of Web 2.0 with jQuery and AJAX. Even the MVC part of ZF is strange and one can do it far easier in their own few lines of code. Just slap together an .htaccess rewrite hook to index.php as your front controller, parse and dispatch calls to your page controllers, make the page controllers call model classes to do the meat of the work, and then send them on to a constant-based template as your view. Take it a step further and throw in OutletORM, or make your own ORM based on concepts derived from Outlet, and you are set for 100mph web development. If you need any other helper classes, just pilfer through CodeIgniter's (use the beta) library folder or get snippets from the web. Pleeeeeeze -- the ZF guys need to get over themselves in a real hurry.

- What we need are tools to improve development time beyond just an ORM and an MVC. We need CRUD scaffolding generators we run against our databases to automatically make a percentage of our admin pages to administer a website, and then we flesh out the rest. We need a jQuery-based rich editor that does an even better job than TinyMCE and without all the quirks. We need a minimal CMS system that people actually want to use and has a small learning curve, a cropper/resizer tool for websites that we can stick next to file input fields for image uploads, a forum just like FluxBB but based on sound MVC and ORM principles, and a fork of the minimal CMS system that gives us a minimal product catalog.