Author Archive of Daff

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I started studying computer sciences at the Munich university of applied sciences in late 2005.

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  • Using the Zend Framework 1.8 Bootstrapper and Doctrine 1.1.0

    Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

    I think that by now, the Zend Framework is one of the most sophisticated PHP frameworks available.
    Additionally I really like the idea of Object Relational Mapper tools. Unfortunately the Zend Frameworks DB and ORM capabilities didn’t convince me yet. That’s where the powerful ORM tool for PHP named Doctrine comes into play.
    It is fairly easy [...]

  • Choosing the right DOCTYPE

    Saturday, February 14th, 2009

    I think every web developer or designer had at least one or more sleepless nights because a web page looked entirely different in all the different browsers on the market. It seems impossible to ever get rid of all the tiny and annoying differences but there are two main considerations that may minimize the effect:

  • Change the repository location in subversion

    Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

    I recently moved a subversion repository to another location and had to update all the Eclipse projects to the new URL. The clumsy way would be to checkout the whole project again from the new repository URL but there is also a command line way to easily switch everything (Subclipse doesn’t offer that possibility directly [...]