José Mota — Web engineer & architect

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Zend Framework: friend or foe?

Yesterday I started working for Goweb, a portuguese web development agency. I’m working as a Zend Framework developer and I must say I’m very surprised for what I’m learning from the experience so far. It has its unique philosophy – if I can call it like that – and way of coding.

It’s not just another MVC framework. It’s a set of PHP classes (one of them actually enables MVC and makes it work stand-alone) that allows you to focus a little more on your application logic rather than spending time on fixing technical bugs.

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January 27th, 2010 — 2 comments so far

Rails à moda do Porto — Episódio 5

Hoje vem um tópico muito rápido mas igualmente importante: layouts.

Layouts são nada mais e nada menos do que templates de HTML. A sua função é criar um esqueleto básico de como a aplicação pode ficar de modo geral.

De forma muito simples mostro como:

  • Indicar o layout a usar nos controladores e nas suas várias acções.
  • Modificar o layout de forma a permitirmos alocação de conteúdo mais eficiente.
  • Criarmos o conteúdo a alocar através da função content_for.

O screencast comprou restaurante!

Novo site do screencast

O screencast vai ter casa própria, com ementa e tudo! Visitem http://rails.amodadoporto.com. O próximo episódio já estará lá, bem como a feed para subscreverem, tanto por RSS como por email.

September 28th, 2009 — Leave a comment!

Blogging for real people

Writing blog posts is already a hard task, imagine if you want to write for other people…! Let me try and share my thoughts on this, it’s even a way for me to keep up with my writing habit.

What better way to know what to do than taking a look at good blogs out there! I’ll take some of the best that I know, if you know others please spill ‘em out!.

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December 15th, 2008 — Leave a comment!