application design

GNOME:One of the things that the GNOME design crew have been focusing on recently is creating a new approach to application design for GNOME 3.

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted their latest interview with a member of the PHP community today - Giorgio Sironi.

Cal's "three questions" for Giorgio about his work in unit testing:

In some of his development with the Zend Framework Ryan Mauger has gathered some helpful tips and tricks.

His dropped these into an Evernote notebook and shared it for others to use.

Microsoft updates its Web and application design suite with streamlined features and support for Visual Studio 2010 projects.

Fans of the Solar PHP framework will be happy to know that Paul Jones, a lead developer on the project, has gotten approval to spend forty percent of his (day job) time on the project!

PHPClasses.org has released a new book review of an APress offering - "Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP" (as reviewed by Marcelo Santos Araujo).

Tobias Schlitt has written up a new post looking at the identity pattern (an Enterprise application design pattern) and an implementation of Identity Map in the eZ Components framework.

Part 2 of a 3-part series on database modeling and design. Developers who build databases without using a data model find themselves constantly revisiting the database, changing its design over and over again as the application is written.

This slows the development process, results in an inflexible schema and possible data corruption. This paper shows you how to avoid these issues by implementing a data model during the initial stages of application design.

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