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		<title>Service layers explained simply</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being new to MVC's is a bit confusing. There's a lot of acronyms to understand before you can really start jumping in and coding anything. This couldn't be any more true for ZF -- ZF not only gives you a framework full of buzzwords, it also leaves the interpretation of what each really means up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leakingabstraction.com/misc/service-layers-explained-simply/</link>
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		<title>Over-engineering syndrome and becoming results-oriented</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In January, I reflected on year 2009 as it pertained to my programming career. What had I accomplished?
I thought long and hard about this. I didn't publish any kick-ass new websites. I didn't make any major contributions to an open source project. The crowning achievement of my year was a Facebook app that accidentally exploded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leakingabstraction.com/articles/over-engineering-syndrome-and-becoming-results-oriented/</link>
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		<title>Part II: Managing CSS and JavaScript files within a Zend Framework App</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since my first post seemed to garner a good amount of attention I thought I'd follow up with another post on how to optimize our CSS/JS view helper components a bit.
The biggest suggestion -- and rightfully so, was to minify or gzip the extra controller/action Javascript or CSS file.
It doesn't take a lot of imagination [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leakingabstraction.com/tutorials/part-ii-managing-css-and-javascript-files-within-a-zend-framework-app/</link>
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		<title>Managing CSS and JavaScript files within a Zend Framework App</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I'm creating a large external facing website or application, one of the biggest messes I used to end up making was in my CSS and JavaScript files.
As a developer/designer (jack of all trades, master of none, if you will) I tend to stay away from some of the more common developer solutions that take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leakingabstraction.com/tutorials/managing-css-and-javascript-files-within-a-zend-framework-app/</link>
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		<title>New domain, mission statement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've decided to change the name of this blog from zendframeworkhelp.com to leakingabstraction.com (leakyabstractions.com was of course taken).
I did this because the name implied that I am some Zend Framework guru -- which I am not, so I have changed the name to something more fitting. Of course, as I code and learn new things, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leakingabstraction.com/misc/new-domain-mission-statement/</link>
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		<title>Running scripts in Zend Framework</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's always been a bit confusing to me where and how to execute scripts within my Zend Framework applications. Often times I would just initialize the autoloader and the classes myself in the script file itself.  Since the existence of Zend_Application, this has become a whole lot easier.
First, I create a folder called "scripts" in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leakingabstraction.com/tutorials/running-scripts-in-zend-framework/</link>
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		<title>Resources for Zend Framework</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most challenging aspects of the Zend Framework is that while there is a large volume of resources available for Zend Framework, sifting through this to get answers to specific problems can be tough. This is partially the fault of the nature of the framework -- a very uncoupled library means there is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leakingabstraction.com/misc/resources-for-zend-framework/</link>
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		<title>Zend_Db: query(), fetch methods, and Zend_Db_Select</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zend_Db provides several methods for querying a database. They range from a simple query wrapper to programmatically. Say we have database object $db = Zend_Db_Table::getDefaultAdapter&#40;&#41;:
 query() - Will return the results of any SQL query.
 fetchRow() - Will return only the first row of the result set.
 fetchCol() - Will return only one column (the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leakingabstraction.com/tutorials/zend_db-query-fetch-methods-and-zend_db_select/</link>
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		<title>Using Zend_Db standalone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there is one class I had to pick out of the ZF library as the crown jewel, it would without a doubt be Zend_Db.
I rarely touch a PHP application or script that interacts with any database without utilizing this class.
Let's go over the quick list of why it's my fave:

It automatically wraps PDO extensions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leakingabstraction.com/tutorials/using-zend_db-standalone/</link>
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		<title>Hacking Geshi syntax highlighter to recognize Zend Framework classes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is kind of off-topic, but pretty neat. I was able to modify my Geshi WordPress plugin (called CodeColorer) to recognize Zend classes and link to the proper ZF Manual page. Example:
//Example of automatic Zend_ class linkage!
Zend_Acl Zend_Amf Zend_Application Zend_Auth Zend_Cache
Zend_Captcha Zend_CodeGenerator Zend_Config Zend_Config_Writer Zend_Console_Getopt
Zend_Controller Zend_Currency Zend_Date Zend_Db Zend_Debug
Zend_Dojo Zend_Dom Zend_Exception Zend_Feed Zend_File
Zend_Filter Zend_Form Zend_Gdata [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leakingabstraction.com/articles/hacking-geshi-syntax-highlighter-to-recognize-zend-framework-classes/</link>
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