An Article on Implementing MVC Pattern in PHP

Here’s an interesting article about implementing MCV pattern in PHP by Samantha Jayasinghe. Samantha is a Tech Lead at OrangeHRM. This will provide a good understanding about MVC for the developpers who are starting to work on this pattern.

http://samanthatec.info/2010/01/24/impliment-mvc-pattern-from-php/

FOSS Web Development Tools

In web application development, right tools is a key to success. I made speech+demo on FOSS Web Application Development Tools at APIIT FOSS Con 2009 on 2nd October 2009 at the APIIT – Sri Lanka City Campus premises.

The event was well-organized and kudos for organizers for a job well done.

See my presentation here

OrangeHRM Reaches 300,000 Downloads

Today, OrangeHRM has reached 300,000 downloads mark!

Installing Webgrind, the Xdebug Profiler

Webgrind is a front-end for Xdebug profiling, released under BSD License.

Using this, developpers can easily monitor the functions called in a PHP script, and the times spent in functions by self cost or inclusive cost. (Inclusive cost is time inside function, plus calls to other functions)

It’s cross platform compatible and easy to use once installed. (Yeah, the installation is no that easy). I had Xdebug already installed, and after going through this, I managed get it running, after following these steps:

Step 0
Install Xdebug. (Already done in my scenario)

Step 1
Enter the following entries to php.ini file.

[xdebug]
xdebug.profiler_enable=1
xdebug.profiler_output_dir="/tmp"
xdebug.profiler_output_name="cachegrind.out.%t.%p"

Step 2
Download Webgrind, and extract the archive to the web server’s root directory.

Step 3
Restart the web server.

Once profiling is enabled, the performance of the web server gets reduced slightly. But you can disabled profiling by changing php.ini as follows:

xdebug.profiler_enable=0

OrangeHRM 2.5 Stable Version is Released

After many months of work, OrangeHRM 2.5 stable version was released on 5th Ocober, 2009 (yesterday).

OrangeHRM 2.5

New Features:

• New look and feel with enhanced usability
• Separation of The Project Time Tracking and Attendance
• Enhanced Recruitment Module
• Implementation of Advanced Security Measures
• Performace optimizations

Apart from these, there are over 150 bug fixes.

It’s the most stable, most secure & the fastest OrangeHRM ever released.

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My First Step into Blogging

Ahhhh… It’s about time I started blogging… I had quite a longing to start a blog, but work and studies kept me 100% occupied.

I’m also suprised why I started to write a blog so late. Anyway, it’s better later than never!!!

Let’s see how this will turn out…