Archive for March, 2008

24% Percent of Users Can’t Find Google

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Over on usability guru Jakon Nielsen’s blog, he throws out a statistic that 24% of users in a recent study couldn’t navigate to google to perform a search - they either went to a different search engine or just failed. How you fail at that task is beyond me. Do you look at the […]

Loading Zend Config file for a Cron Job

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

The other day I talked about using Apache Environment variables to determine which section of a config file to use for a Zend Framework website. That works swimmingly, however, I had a cron job that was running for the same site, and since it was piped directly to php, Apache Environment variables were not an […]

Traits for PHP

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Via blog, found a link to a proposal for Traits in PHP. I wasn’t familiar with the practice, but as I read the proposal it struck a cord with me. I have been grappling with how to reuse certain functionality throughout disparate classes.
I looked at Mixins, which I also have been playing around with […]