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Recently I started a new assignment at a customer where we are going to build their new public web site and their intranet, both of them based on EPiServer CMS 6. The person leading the project is very found of ASP.NET MVC, so my first task was to experiment with EPiServer and ASP.NET MVC, [...]

Recently I got a request from a customer to perform some search engine optimizing for an old EPiServer site we are maintaining. One of the optimizations was to fix the paging on their product page. The products are fetched from an external data source and are not stored as pages in EPiServer, thus normal EPiServer [...]

In this post I am going to show how easy it is to create a JSON-RPC web service using the built in support in Zend Framework.
First we need to create the php-file that will handle the incoming RPC calls. It is not advised to put this inside the MVC structure of a Zend web application, [...]

Today I upgraded a project we started working on last year from Zend Framework 1.7 to Zend Framework 1.9. I excepted to run into several API incompatibilities, but the only problem I got was the autoloader.
In Zend 1.7, and earlier versions, the autoloader was registered like this:

require_once "Zend/Loader.php";

Zend_Loader::registerAutoload();

In Zend Framwork 1.9 this has changed slightly, [...]

It used to be a bit tricky to get started with the Zend Framework. The Zend Framework is very flexible and allows you to set it up in almost any way that fits your needs. This means for example that the directory structure and location of files is up to you, however – there is [...]

About a month ago I finished reading the book ASP.NET MVC 1.0 – Test Driven Development by Emad Ibrahim. The book weighs in only at about 300 pages, making it easily something you can read in a couple of nights. The book is written in tutorial fashion and is is probably best read with a [...]

I recently needed to setup a new ASP.NET development environment and deiced to give Microsofts Web Platform Installer 2.0 a chance. I had actually never heard about this product before, but what it does is installing .NET, the needed development libraries, and the express versions of Visual Studio and SQL Server. It required three reboots, [...]

For the last month I have been playing around with WSGI in Python. WSGI is an interface between the web server and the web application, it is meant to simplify writing your own web framework in Python. My intention is not to write an fully fledged web framework, but rather just play around with some [...]

I was having a chat the other day with Danish Peter (yes, another one) about URL rewrites in ASP.NET. In a previous post I wrote about how to use friendly URLs in the Zend framework, in this post, which is based on our discussion, I will discuss how to do this in ASP.NET.
Friendly URLs are [...]

For the last three months I have been working with one of Sweden’s largest companies. When I arrived the first day I noticed that it was not possible to log in to the intranet using Firefox. The explanation I received:
“our sites are built for Internet Explorer, you have to use it”
In my head a warning [...]