Development, Analysis And Research

The Project
I was recently working on a project to expose our trading systems via XmlRpc, Rest and SOAP. It was quite an interesting project, which took two of us three weeks to develop (Amongst other things).
This involved creating a testbed, that would automatically generate the payload and response for each protocol. The parameters are introspected [...]

Just came across this whilst creating an XML HTTP object and creating a socket to a page that doesn’t exist. I couldn’t understand what was going on when I saw that.

<!–
- Unfortunately, Microsoft has added a clever new
- “feature” to Internet Explorer. If the text of
- an error’s message is “too small”, specifically
- less than [...]

Today I found an odd bug in MSXML.

<!–
  <xsl:comment> —–BEGIN call-template name=”article” EMPTY PathID—– </xsl:comment>
–>

msxml3.dll error ‘80004005′

The stylesheet does not contain a document element. The stylesheet may be empty, or it may not be a well-formed XML document.

“C:\DOMAINS\HOSTELHOST.COM\WWWROOT\CLIENT\DK\EYEWITNESS\../includes/src/default.asp, line 43″

a2a_config.linkname=”Odd XSL Bug”;
a2a_config.linkurl=”http://www.ajohnstone.com/archives/xsl-odd-bug-in-msxml-4/”;
a2a.init(“page”);

XSLT, XPATH Samples

I’ve recently been looking into WTVML….

Whilst using the Zend Platform on a clustered server enviroment, I came across a number of limitations, however many of these have now been resolved with the beta release of the Zend Platform named Buran.
I am excited to hear that the following features are/have been implemented in the Zend Platform.

PHP level session clustering (beta starting [...]