Archive for June, 2009|Monthly archive page

Adding currency conversion to Zend_Currency

Currency

I recently needed to do currency conversion for a Zend Framework project, so a naturally turned to Zend_Currency. Sadly, Zend_Currency doesn’t feature currency conversion, rather it focuses on the localization aspects of currency. This is perfectly understandable as offering conversion would make this component dependant on potentially unreliable third parties that Zend would not be able to support.
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Installing CouchDB on CentOS 5

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I have been meaning to have a play with CouchDB for a while now, so this afternoon I finally had a go at installing it on my (32 bit) CentOS 5 box. Here is what I learnt along the way…
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