Mohammad Forouzani

Zend Framework out of beta

Posted on 05. Jun, 2007 by forouzani.

After completely losing the php framework wars to symfony, Zend Framework has come out of beta with v1.0 RC1. Personally, Im not a big fan of the zend framework, simply because I think naming it a ‘framework’ is a bit misleading. Its just a bunch of classes, without enough cohesive coupling to earn the title [...]

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Google Gears – offline web applications

Posted on 30. May, 2007 by forouzani.

Today Google announced a new project they have been working on, called Google Gears. Its a browser extension which allows web applications to work both online and offline by using local storage and a synchronization system. Its not a new concept, similar products have already been released by Adobe and Joyent, but the fact that [...]

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Cross domain ajax

Posted on 23. May, 2007 by forouzani.

I recently encountered a problem which required some cross-domain ajax to work. The same domain security policy for XmlHttpRequest obviously doesn’t allow this for security reasons. Im sure Im not the first or the last person to require cross domain ajax, and yet our endeavors will only be hindered by self-proclaimed security experts claiming cross [...]

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