It’s the holiday season here in America, so I won’t be posting on my blog as much for the next two of weeks. I may sneak in a post or two if time and motivation allows, but…
As always, thanks for your interest in what I have to say! And happy holidays to those of you celebrating something this time of year!
This video at Adobe’s Web site previews two of the file system additions forthcoming in Adobe AIR 2.0. It’s only six minutes long but shows some cool new features for launching files and for accessing mounted drives. The specific code being used is Flex, but the same functionality will be capable using Ajax, too.
I’m just not a big fan of using the Zend Framework as my Web development tool, but one of the framework’s nicest features is that you can use only the parts of it you need. I am, however, a big fan of the Yii framework and one of its many plusses is that you can easily integrate other frameworks and tools into it. Like, for example, the Zend Framework. Yii does not have its own search engine functionality, and Apache’s Lucene is arguably the gold standard (although clearly not the only choice), so tapping into Zend’s Lucene module for a Yii-driven site makes a lot of sense. In this post, I’ll walk you through the steps for integrating Zend_Lucene into Yii. This post does assume familiarity with PHP, MVC, and Yii. (continue reading…)
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