Monthly Archives: October 2009

try catch block at Zend Framework top level

Posted on October 9, 2009 by Stoimen

You’d like for the production server that no exceptions are visible on the site. That sounds reasonable! If there is some exception you’d like to see it only on your developer server. So in your index.php or whatever the index … Continue reading →

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jQuery: the difference between mouseout and mouseleave

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Stoimen

The simple difference is that in the case with mouseout there is not event bubbling by default, while in mouseleave the events bubble. Let’s make a short example.

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Zend_Layout : using placeholders

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Stoimen

Supposing that you’re familiar with Zend_Layout and why and where you should use it, here’s a little tutorial how to use placeholders. If there’s a layout file called main.phtml where beside the part of: <?php echo $this->layout()->content; ?> there’s a … Continue reading →

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CSS Sprites – common mistakes

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Stoimen

CSS Sprites Although there are so many resources about CSS sprites and where they should be used I still think their usage is misunderstood. The big problem is that many people use the sprite in a completely wrong way. When … Continue reading →

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