I just noticed on one of my favorite techy news sites (www.tweakers.net – hulde!) that TeamSpeak 3 has FINALLY been released. Considering this baby has been in development for 5 years I’m quite excited about it’s release. From a front-end point of view not too much has changed, but underneath the hood the changes should [...]

I had previously been running Ubuntu Jaunty and decided to do a fresh install of Karmic on my work machine (a 20″ iMac). I waited this long to make the jump because I still saw a lot of updates coming in every day on my machines at home, so I figured it would be better [...]

I just found this post on Joey Rivera’s blog which will make my life a lot easier in the future. It allows for you to generate the php code Zend Framework relies on to access the database. Currently you would have to make a new file for each table (depending on which way you have [...]

This was verified to work under Zend Framework 1.9.5 and 1.9.6. First we want to make a new file for the cron somewhere outside the public folder, I chose a folder called scripts. My project thus looks like this: domain.com application library logs public index.php scripts cronjob.php tests The trick with cronjobs is that you [...]

I’ve been experimenting with Zend Framework (ZF) for some time now at home to try and expand my knowledge of PHP and in particular MVC patterns. I must say it took me quite a while to understand how ZF works exactly, but now the rewards are starting to come in! I’ve been building a Google [...]

Supposedly this change has been rolled out to certain locations quite a while ago, however for me (and I guess most people in the Netherlands) this change was only put live this as of today. If you now go to Google and don’t move the mouse you will see quite an empty page showing just [...]

Today Google anounced a new free service: their Public Dns. This is part of Google’s quest to speed up the internet which they have released quite a few tools for (which used to only be used internally at Google HQ) an optimised browser and now we get this free service as another extra. My first [...]