PHP jobs with Gearman and Supervisor

The problem

Often in a PHP project there could be operations that need to be executed asynchronously. Some example are: processing mail queues, indexing data, computation that requires long elaboration time.

Processi PHP con Gearman e Supervisor

Problema

Spesso in un progetto PHP capita di dover eseguire operazioni in modo asincrono. Alcuni esempi sono: lavorazione di code email, indicizzazione di dati, calcoli che richiedono lunghi tempi di elaborazione.

Zend Framework 3.0 branch started!

Yesterday, Evan Coury, Zend Framework contibutor, announced start of Zend Framework branch.

Development goals will be merged between ZF team ideas and community suggestions that will be collected in this topic. Anyway, Evan immediatly specifies that development will be focused on avoid dramatic migration as was for transition from ZF1 to ZF2.

Configurare filtri Doctrine 2 in Zend Framework 2

Scenario

Un filtro di Doctrine è uno strumento molto potente che può essere utilizzato per aggiungere condizioni a livello SQL all’interno del nostro gestore di oggetti Doctrine 2. Ciò significa che i filtri influenzeranno il comportamento di query DQL, collezioni, recupero dati, ecc.

Setup Doctrine 2 filters in Zend Framework 2

Scenario

Doctrine filter is a very powerfull tool that can be used to add conditional clauses at SQL level into our Doctrine 2 engine. This means that filters constraints will affect DQL queries, collections, lazy loading, etc.

Get latest LibreOffice in Ubuntu

LibreOffice is actually the most famous Open Source Office Suite. Unfortunately, Ubuntu repositories often doesn’t contains latest versions of it.

Creare e modificare documenti PDF con LibreOffice

Creare file PDF è un’operazione piuttosto comune. Modificarli, invece, è un po’ meno comune ma, comunque, una funzione molto richiesta.

Create and edit PDF documents with LibreOffice

Create PDF files is a very common operation. Modify them is a bit less common but, anyway, a very requested feature.