opensource-tech

So slow????

mell — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 05:13:57 +0000

What the hell!!! Im not slow you just cant keep up.

mimeBuzz.com

mell — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:51:57 +0000

MimeBuzz.com is a newly established, Business-to-Consumer (B2C) online shopping website that will cater all business class from small to large scale enterprise.

MimeBuzz will provide businesses with a software platform for e-Commerce services, product advertisements, promotion of rendered services, and advance notifications on upcoming sales, deals and group buy packages. The software enables our affiliates to be more efficient in terms of expanding their market to online consumers and increase manageability of multiple stores by product availability (meaning which selected store the product is available or the store that offers the sale/reduced price) and inventory.

We offer our services through Affiliate Programs, which includes partnership from individual entrepreneurs to a company’s marketing/admin officers. MimeBuzz affiliate would have the privilege to use all site functionality and also administrator access for managing their products and services.

Due to the rapid growth of the Internet, people from all walks of life have easy access to a variety of information via e-mail, web browser and mobile applications. Growing parallel with this is the increasing popularity of online shopping sites, bringing ease and comfort to those who don’t have the luxury to spend much of their on malls. The following is a list of guidelines that is needed to comprise the virtual shopping mall:

Security and reliability

Product availability

Product selection via specific category

Reasonable pricing

Flexible payment methods

MimeBuzz.com was carefully conceptualized to answer to this call. Imagine a virtual store that can offer almost everything and anything from all sorts of products, services, hotels and resorts reservations, airline ticket reservations, group buy packages, grocery goods and cooked food, you name it we have it. MimeBuzz aims to be the first of its kind here in the Philippines.

My friend who was a part of the development team in creating mimeBuzz.com told me that they built the site from ground up using symfony 1.4. Below is the screen shot of the modified admin generator that used jQuery dataTables and Zend Lucene Search.

Pretty clean huh! The data listing for the CRUD is AJAX driven. I’ve tested the admin and its pretty fast even deployed on a shared hosting. The key to the fast loading was AJAX calls returns small amounts of data, only data needed by the user are returned, eg. the main grid only displays upto 10 data by default and clicking the paginator does not refresh the whole page instead an AJAX call is then triggered to fetch the next batch of data.

Almost there! Marriage of Flex and Symfony

mell — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:58:03 +0000

Due to several projects being handled by the team the past few months, my development of the Flex-Symfony has been very slow. Until recently I’ve been able to create a simple crud module that uses Symfony on the back end and Flex on the front. It was not easy since I prefer to preserve the default code generated by Symfony using the CLI (eg. symfony propel:generate-crud frontend author Author). To do this, an XML output by the Symfony is required to pass data request by flex (More details will be posted once the first tutorial is finished). On the front end I used PureMVC for flex. Its not very hard to to use the framework and you could have a really clean implementation of your flex code. The final product Symfony-Flex Web App. In the coming weeks I’ll be posting a tutorial including the code on how the marriage has been implemented. Cheers!!!

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A move to Symfony! A PHP MVC Framework Part II

mell — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:59:33 +0000

Over the past few weeks I’ve been working heavily on Symfony tweaking some functionality and installing the needed plugins for our projects. Then I found out that Symfony and ZF Zend Framework could work well together. So I installed the Zend Framework and added some codes to make ZF autoload via Symfony. I have been thinking that when I reviewed and compared the framework I was comparing apples and oranges. Zend Framework is a strong framework but when it comes to using it as an MVC framework it lacks the cohesion and you end up putting everything on your controller. So on the basis on the way we do things on our development I think Symfony will greatly satisfy our needs on our WEBAPPS development using MVC. Symfony has high learning curve but with the benefits that we will be getting out of it, I say its worth it. Symfony along side ZF for large-scale projects I say its a one two punch!

A move to Symfony! – PHP5 Model View Controller Framework

mell — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:31:19 +0000

Recently, I’ve decided to move from our proprietary MVC framework (A PHPMVC port for PHP5) to a well supported PHP MVC framework. For several days I’ve searched and reviewed several frameworks that will cater my team’s need in terms of developing enterprise applications, there are several frameworks that I have considered:

Zend Framework
CakePHP
Symfony

Things I’ve noticed:

Zend Framework – It’s PEAR-like, collections of libraries to make development easier, but to me its not a serous framework. Well documented and supported by Zend.

CakePHP – Lightweight, one of the smallest framework available, Compatible on both PHP4 and PHP5, enhanced ajax support, flexible but the downside is it has incomplete documentation, Has no pre-built in widget.

Symfony – Tested and tried on several active websites, supports scaffolding and administration generator (speeds up maintenance module creation) to replace the repetitive coding of task, well documented and supported by a software company (Sensio Labs).

Selection of the framework was not easy, I’ve installed, tested and created example programs based on the documentation available. Good documentation and ease of use was the winning point for Symfony over the other 2, it has tutorials, installation and configuration and some useful example programs that will get a newbie of the framework going straight to application development. I only spent half a day to complete a fully working program using Symfony, which is hard to accomplish when using the other 2 framework. Scaffolding and administration generator was handy specially on new projects that has a lot of maintenance modules. You can create maintenance modules on the fly by typing a single line of code on the CLI. In the next few months I’ll be tweaking some of the features of the base Symfony 1.1 to adopt it to our style of coding and development. Then a work will follow for the integration with Adobe Flex via AMFPHP that will replace our AJAX intensive Web Applications.