Year: 2012

Over the last month I have be scoping a large web app for a client that has had me looking into different PHP frameworks for the server side and Javascript frameworks for the front end. Following on from New Years Day Zend2 Hackathon I decided to try out Symfony2. The try out project I decided that the…

At the end of last week, Google announced that they had made a change to their algorithm that harmed sites that contained too much advertising above the fold (the content visible without scrolling when a webpage first loads) and not content. On the surface this is a great move. While they state it will only effect 1%…

It has been sometime since I got the chance to just get into some new code and try out some new tools. New year’s day (and part of then next) was spent trying out Zend Framework 2 beta 2 and Doctrine 2 in a little play project. The project was pretty simple, take a basic ZF2 application (based on Rob…