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	<description>web 2.0 : social media : virtual worlds</description>
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		<title>Dirty Rows and Audit Trails with Zend_Db_Table</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are various ways to update rows in a database table using the Zend_Db_Table components. You can use use Zend_Db_Table::update(), like so:

$table = My_Table();
$table-&#62;update(array('age' => 22), 'id = 1');

or retrieve the row, and update it:

$table = My_Table();
$row = $table-&#62;find(1)-&#62;current();
$row-&#62;age = 22;
$row-&#62;save();

The big difference between the two approaches is that by first retrieving the row, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marcuswelz.com/2008/09/27/dirty-rows-and-audit-trails-with-zend_db_table/</link>
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		<title>Zend_Db: Setting MySQL's timezone per connection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a Linux server with a system timezone of ET (US/Eastern). But I also have a web application that needs to run in a timezone of PT (US/Pacific). Of course that's not a problem at all. I just set the timezone in my web application's bootstrap:

date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles'); // Pacific timezone

Now I have another problem; the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marcuswelz.com/2008/09/16/zend_db-setting-mysqls-timezone-per-connection/</link>
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		<title>The WSDL Blower: The state of SOAP in Zend Framework 1.6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are all kinds of ways to expose APIs as web services. SOAP, XML-RPC, REST, JSON-RPC. Out of all of these, SOAP is arguably the most complex, but also one of the oldest ways to expose an API (I remember preliminary SOAP and WSDL support in Delphi 6, circa 2001).
Exposing an API as a web [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marcuswelz.com/2008/09/13/the-wsdl-blower-the-state-of-soap-in-zend-framework-16/</link>
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		<title>Zend Framework 1.6 RC2 and FirePHP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After I had upgraded from Firebug 1.2.0b7 to 1.2.0b15, my web apps were no longer throwing any kind of logs into the Firebug console. I'm using the Zend_Log_Writer_Firebug class for that.
Luckily, just earlier today I noticed a new release of Firebug 1.2.0. And with that, FirePHP 0.1.1.2. But now there was a new problem:
["There was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marcuswelz.com/2008/08/25/zend-framework-16-rc2-and-firephp/</link>
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		<title>Spokeo is kind of Scaryo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Evidently 2008 is the year of the aggregators. They're everywhere. Socialthing, ping.fm, and what have you. But here's one with an immedialy obvious business model. Introducing Spokeo. An aggregator that asks you to provide your AOL, Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo email credentials (which, in my opinion isn't the safest way to share contacts and I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marcuswelz.com/2008/08/05/spokeo-is-kind-of-scaryo/</link>
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		<title>I bought a new Headset</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the longest time I've used the Plantronics .Audio 70 "Behind-the-headset". It's lightweight, has clear sound, and has an almost 10 foot long cord. And perhaps that's part of the problem. I keep rolling over it with my chair every so often, and eventually, after 6 months of use or so, the chord will short [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marcuswelz.com/2008/08/04/i-bought-a-new-headset/</link>
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		<title>Zend Framework and File Locking Pitfalls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today while reading through the Zend Framework 1.6 RC1 release notes I've come across an interesting bug that has been fixed: [ZF-3382] Zend_Cache_Backend_File problems under very high load.
There are a lot of things to say about this issue. The obvious ones first:
1. Under typical operation such as opening, locking, reading/writing, and then closing a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marcuswelz.com/2008/08/03/zend-framework-and-file-locking-pitfalls/</link>
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		<title>Bugs in Phing on Windows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I use Phing to deploy my projects, and as they become more complex I expand on my use of Phing tasks. For instance, I have a ZIP archive of zip codes that Phing extracts and then imports into a database when deploying the application.
I maintain two development environments. One on a Linux server, and one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marcuswelz.com/2008/07/31/bugs-in-phing-on-windows/</link>
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		<title>Comcast reads blogs, provides customer service through Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More and more companies are starting to embrace the social web. Comcast discovered that communicating and following up with unsatisfied customers through third party web sites (personal blogs, Twitter, etc) can have a positive effect.
Of course, that's a Good Thing&#8482;, because as a (due to lack of alternatives, sometimes forced) customer it often seems that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marcuswelz.com/2008/07/26/comcast-reads-blogs-provides-customer-service-through-twitter/</link>
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		<title>Zend_DB_Select Woes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's no secret, I'm a fan of the Zend Framework, which I've been using since version 0.15. A lot of components have been added since then, and many of the initial components have been refactored and enhanced, and have matured. And that includes the Zend_Db_Select component, which has been evolving quite nicely, and even Zend_Db_Table_Abstract [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marcuswelz.com/2008/07/25/zend_db_select-woes/</link>
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