ondrejd’s blog

Before a few days appeared on ActiveState’s forum related to Komodo IDE/Edit post that some guy looking for a developer of a small extension which have to simplify switching between opened views. That guy was Adam Grozser and (of course) that I immediately wrote him .

And here is short list of features of Qwin 0.5:

• sidebar with list of all opened views (you can choose if you want to display documents only or also web pages or Komodo’s start page).
• switching between views on double-click on them in Qwin’s sidebar tree or by shortcuts (default is CTRL+ALT and F1-F12 keys).
• few another options which customize Qwin’s behavior.

Latest version of Qwin is available for download here: http://www.ondrejd.com/download/qwin/qwin-0.5.1-ko.xpi (download through the right click on the link and “Save as…” command).

UPDATE:
According to Adam’s notes I’ve updated Qwin to 0.5.1 version. The list of news is short:

1. now user can choose another way how to display documents names - he can specify how much characters from the end of document’s full path want to display (see third screenshot).
2. updated views numbering (now from 1 not from 0)

You can download this version directly from this site or from Komodo’s forum.

This post will be inroduction to the using of Zend Famework.
For almost every web site project (even the simplest ones) we need this basic functionality (each on represented by single instance of a object (meaned as service)):

• configuration (Zend_Config)
• database access (Zend_Db)
• translation service (Zend_Translate)

Each of these areas of concern can be represented by single instance of any class - because we want to access these instances globally but we don’t want to use global directive so we also need to include the Zend_Registry - which is supposed to be used for this task.

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Have you problems with extensions in beta versions of Firefox 3? I had them too but do you know about extensions.checkCompatibility? No? Yeah, I missed it too - but it’s really great. See more on Glazman’s blog post.
And here how it is look like in the Addons Manager dialog:

I’m sorry but I did a mistake and delete contents of this post - so now here are the only contents of this serial and the rest will be added later.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. First impressions
3. New structure
4. About the controllers
5. User authentication, authorization and ACL
6. Content management
7. Conclusion and working demo

Here are some updates on my layout proposal - as you can see from the screenshots I consolidate main menu and move it into the left pane (user in its preferences can choose left or right sight) and move control buttons from the left side of each tree into their context menus. Here are the screenshosts:

I’ll will be glad for any notes if you’re like it or not (and why ).

Last few evenings I worked on deep revisition of on old e-shop (PHP4/MySQL) and here I want to introduce latest proposal of my new XUL content manager (more about old manager - post, gallery 1, gallery 2).

PS: I’m also writing a long post about my fresh experiences about rewritting and exteding old PHP project to modern well-maintainable project with using the Zend Framework.

Update: Today I’ve finished (as I hope) the final version of the layout proposal and of course that I wrote about it.

I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.5 RC1 Sneak Peek and here are the few notes:

• upgrading was painless - I didn’t see any error message and theme and plugins worked well
• UI improvements in administration section and I really like them - here are some screenshots:

  

• Superb media uploader dialog:

  

Zend released new version of its Zend Framework. Release notes are here and downloaded can be here.
Some new features which I like the most:

• Zend Framework now has support for forms generating and processing
• Layouts and views enhancements
• UTF-8 character sets in Adobe PDF creation
• Enhancements in Google GData web services

And also one note - I really like new look of http://framework.zend.com/ .

I really like development on Mozilla platform - here is one of the reasons why: I’m played with Boogie (I wrote about it in this post) and I want to upgrade Boogie’s old text database to the SQLite database and I’ve noticed that new Gecko versions enables building XUL templates also with SQLite datasources and not only with with RDF datasources as before so I’ve decided to try this new technology and I really like that I’ve did so. Read the rest of this entry »

Hi - only a short post - today I had some time so I’ve uploaded some new sets of screenshots to my Picassa account. Pictures are taken from these pieces of software:

• Aptana IDE
• SilverStripe CMS
• Spicebird 0.4
• SQLiteMan

All images was uploaded with new beta version of Flock (1.1) and also this post was written with it. You can read more about new features in this article.

Tags: software, screenshots, flock, mozilla