Author Archives: irmantas

My virtual development environment

Posted on May 29, 2011 by irmantas

After reading Juozas KaziukÄ—nas blog post about “Virtual Machines for Web Development, I decided to create one for my development environment. As Juozas suggested I would use VirtualBox on Ubuntu 11.04 host, and would install Ubuntu 11.04 server as guest … Continue reading →

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Simple bookmarklet to enable xdebug profiler

Posted on April 13, 2011 by irmantas

Recently we had xdebug installed in our development machine. To enable xdebug profiling we must must add XDEBUG_PROFILER=1 via GET or POST. Because I am lazy like many programmers I wrote bookmarklet to add this for me 🙂 Here is … Continue reading →

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Faster class loading in Zend Framework application

Posted on April 11, 2011 by irmantas

Update You can use Zend Framework 2 autoloader in Zend Framework 1 projects (via Anton, see comment #3) It is not a secret that Zend Framework class loading is very slow and cost many resources. Recently I read about Zend … Continue reading →

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Links as buttons in Zend Framework form

Posted on March 27, 2011 by irmantas

In my current project I have to use link tags instead input elements for my form buttons. To do this I needed to create new form element, new helper and add helper path to my bootstrap file. First I created … Continue reading →

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PHP script execution time

Posted on March 27, 2011 by irmantas

I know there are many tutorials how to do this in PHP, but reason why I am writing this mini tutorial is one trick witch should help you a lot.  By the way, do you know that execution time is … Continue reading →

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