For some reason my previous post keeps crashing my FFX2. Maybe the list is way too long:) The markup of the post itself seems like valid HTML to me, so it must be something else. My plugins, or other markup of blogger? It’s a mistery, if it happens with you, too, let me know and sorry about the inconveniences. This is an archive post. It represents a point of view in the past.

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If you have been already preparing for Zend PHP5 Certification exam from the official study guide, you know it has many annoying errors and misleading statements. Up until the beginning of April there was no forum/listing where you could cross-check the errors, but now we have this errata in our hands. Its pretty complete, i only missed two thing that i noticed myself while i was studying. I added these in the comments section of the page.

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Google App Engine

Appengine is fresh and buzzing, check it out if you havent heard of it yet. If only it was not working for python only. I dont need to tell you what is the language of Web, do i?:) Also Salesforce and Google integration got some fresh news. This is an archive post. It represents a point of view in the past. Facts might have changed, events might be interpreted differently as of today.

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I have published my gomoku (5 in a row) game as a free-to-take project on sourceforge. I was not touching the source since 2004 now, and i dont plan to develop further myself. If anyone finds it interesting, or just wants snippets from the code, feel free to use it, it is licensed under GPL. The latest executable is still available from my homepage, or from sourceforge itself. Sourcecode is available in SVN repo.

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I am about to start a new project based on ZF, the library looks like a beast to be tamed at first sight, i still need to learn a lot about it. I was doing some preliminary investigations how to use Smarty with its Zend_View component. A lot of info on the web looks outdated, but i found a great blog here (and old version here). Jani is a young Finnish developer-jedi, and i really like his writings about ZF and templating engines, just to list a few of them:

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CSS Naked Day

Tomorrow is CSS Naked Day. Strip all your styles from your webpage, if you dare! I think i won’t be that bold, but its an interesting initiative from Dustin Diaz, and so far some 700 sites have joined. This is an archive post. It represents a point of view in the past. Facts might have changed, events might be interpreted differently as of today. Links might be broken.

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Becoming ZCE

Ok, so here is what kept me busy last week. Now i am officially Zend Certified (PHP5) Engineer :) This is an archive post. It represents a point of view in the past. Facts might have changed, events might be interpreted differently as of today. Links might be broken.

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Adam Maschek

Engineering Leader

CTO@Westwing

Munich, Germany