Happy days, last month I passed my Zend Certification exam on the first attempt, Carlton Dickson is finally in the Zend Yellow Pages for ZCEs.
The things that I would recommend looking at if you’re planning to take the exam are…
After discovering a few Google I/O conference presentations on Youtube something that grabbed my attention were the Google App Engine presentations. The Google App Engine allows developers to run their apps on Google’s infrastructure and not have to worry about server-related issues such as maintaining fast response times, reliability and scaling should your site suddenly receive a shed load of traffic. This is surely great news for startups who believe they will be big sometime in the future but aren’t willing to pay a silly amount of dough for the architecture to support their idea up-front, kinda like pay as you go…did I say the first 5 million page views and 500MB storage were free??
So I decided it was time for me to get my own shed, not the wooden sort used to get away from a nagging other half or fix the mower, but instead test out things that may come in useful in future projects or that look interesting. At the moment this only consist of an example of the Youtube chromeless player I threw together, press the play icon for some soulful grooves.
Just started a project for a friend of mine showcasing their design work and one piece of functionality that I’ll need is a JS based lightbox in order to display the work in a nice way.
My requirements for the lightbox were…
I have found a cheeky little comparison matrix of lightbox alternatives, meaning I can stop running around the net using the various names that people have given their spinoffs of the first lightbox, check it out, it will definitely save you a lot of time!