http://www.innova-partners.com/blog Innova Partners, software, networking, and websites. Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:00:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As I was trying out Zend Framework 1.6.2, certain things made me cringe: There's a "Minimal" distribution, but it's just as large as ever. Non-minimal I guess means with Dojo and unit tests. Forget the fact that I might never use Zend_Search_Lucene (Lucene search provider), Zend_Gdata (Googel Data API), ... http://www.innova-partners.com/blog/2008/11/04/zend-framework-wtf/ Final Update!: A gentleman from Apple Executive Support (I think) just contacted me regarding the case. He was very courteous about the whole thing. I told him the honest truth: that I'm no longer completely enraged but that I just expected someone at the Apple Store to be ... http://www.innova-partners.com/blog/2008/10/23/i-hate-you-apple-customer-service/ One thing you might have noticed that we do is SQL. We do a lot of SQL, so you'd think we would have figured out the best way of hooking up applications to databases. To an extent, we have become so familiar with the requirements of database-driven development that we have ... http://www.innova-partners.com/blog/2008/10/17/database-models-i-have-known-and-endured/ Innova has tried a few things in the past to keep our projects organized. We have an internal Wiki that we use for sharing data, fileservers every five feet for document sharing, an inter-office Jabber server that keeps our IMs going. We use FogBugz to track bugs, Harvest ... http://www.innova-partners.com/blog/2008/10/06/basecamp-first-day-impressions/ The last day of the 2008 OWASP AppSec conference in New York City has passed! Chris and I saw some excellent talks, including one that introduced a tool that actually scared Chris with its effectiveness – but I'll let him tell that story. One of my favorites was "Agile Development ... http://www.innova-partners.com/blog/2008/09/25/owasp-appsec-2008-last-day/