I was working on a Google Maps API version 3 application when I came across this little bug. It is obviously common because this is the second time in about a year and half that I have come across it and each time I have to do a 5 minute Google search for the answer and I always get a little bothered that it might take more than a few minutes to find the answer. I know the last time I looked for the fix for this bug it took a while and I was dreading that again today.

Recently I forked the Joomla Framework because I am working on extending the core to accommodate a REST API more natively. I really love Joomla and how quickly it allows you to be productive. As with any API there is a learning curve and I would not say that Joomla is the Best PHP framework but when it comes to out of the box functionality and CMS's Joomla rocks. Anyways because of the lack of documentation on getting this up and running and because I feel there is a benefit from the community getting involved extending the core I have created this tutorial to guide you. One thing to note though for Windows users the PCNTL extension is not available for windows so you wont be able to run some of the tests. Let's get started with the first steps.

This is part two of my tutorial on MVC with PHP. I'm calling our application Sequoia because I intend to make it big and not keep it too simple. Although right now I am keeping it simple to help those who might just want a taste of how MVC could be implemented with PHP. Again I keep it simple for now omitting Unit Tests and I also purposely omit any checks from the $_GET data because I am just trying to illustrate the pattern rather than create a deployable application. I should also mention that this is one of the many possible ways in which and MVC framework might be implemented. Zend and other frameworks use slightly different approaches but the heart of the matter is still similar.

Lately I have really been digging into the jQuery API's. Particularly regarding jQuery's async functionality and best practices. I have been really intrigued by the promises and $.Deferred API  The main reason I was interested in these techniques was because I liked the idea of having code that is less nested and more readable. With JavaScript you easily paint yourself into a corner with nesting issues, but even more so than that there is the issue of code readability. I really appreciate that code is far more legible when you use deferred and promises. In this tutorial I will talk about the deferred object.