The Zend Framework is one of the best things to happen to PHP since the introduction of objects. But one area that’s always bugged me has been Zend_Loader, specifically its autoloader. For a framework with an extremely rigid class naming structure, you’d think the autoloader would be light and intuitive. Yet it’s a lot more complex than it needs to [...]

It’s been around, but man is it apt. It’s apt, baby!

The grumblings of my fellow web designers and developers about having to support Internet Explorer 6 is not a new topic; some, including myself, would say that it’s been discussed to death. It’s not going away anytime soon, so we should just shut up and deal with it. Right? Well, now that Internet Explorer 8 is officially out of beta, [...]