Author Archives: Adrian

On one of our recent projects that used WURFL, response time was an important factor. Profiling revealed that the greatest chunk of response time (up to a few hundred milliseconds) was taken up by WURFL. We realized that its default … Continue reading →

Starting with 1.5, DotKernel has a Console bootstrap to easily run PHP scripts from the command line. The most common use for this is to be able to run cron jobs without using wget and going through Apache. Continue reading →

After a longer wait than usual, DotKernel 1.5.0 was just released. Due to the large amount of changes and the long time spent in development, we chose to skip 1.4 and go straight to 1.5.0. Here are a few of … Continue reading →

Starting with the 1.5 release, DotKernel will make the switch from Dojo to jQuery. On jQuery’s website, there’s an excellent “Getting started with jQuery tutorial“, as well as a extensive documentation for the framework, so I’ll just go over a … Continue reading →

In DotKernel, Zend_Registry will contain the following variables: startTime - the result of microtime() at the beginning of the request configuration – the configuration options loaded from configs/application.ini router – routing settings loaded from configs/router.xml Continue reading →