In the past, the leather sofa beds are only associated to people who can afford but now almost anyone can have one. Nowadays, sofa beds are priced low so that more people could afford to buy it. Before buying your sofa bed, make sure you check the leather first if it s good quality. Different leather material is used for leather sofa beds but the most expensive kind is the natural leather material. If the leather corner sofas are left uncoated, the natural leather will easily stain or get damaged without protection. Leather corner sofas don t need a lot of maintenance and they are also very durable if it uses pigmented leather. The grade of your sofa beds matter quite a lot when it comes to its life-span but just how you utilize it also counts. Your kids could knock a punch on your sofa beds but if it s made of pigmented leather it can handle the stress. Sofa beds from the top grain kind of leather will last your whole life but split hide material is made to last around 5 years. Look for the perfect one from all the kinds of leather sofa beds before you get one for yourself by doing some research.
It was first introduced that sofa beds give users the single furniture at home that works as a sofa and also as a bed. People living in tight spaces were the first customers that sofa beds were targeted for. Home decorators are in awe with the corner sofas available in the market today that are given with very low price tags. You can get corner sofas at hundreds of dollars worth that are just as great as the ones that are worth 10x more because they are also high quality. A big factor for the price of corner sofas is really the type of fabric it s made of as that dictates whether it s really expensive or not. Leather corner sofas are the ones that are the most expensive kind of corner sofa especially when the material is made of fine leather. For customers on a tight budget you can buy fabric corner sofas or if you want a leather kind then the faux leather is best on a budget. There is no need to pay extra for a customized cover for your sofa bed as many sofa covers are available online and in retail stores that are easily installed and affordable. For a classy and more elegant family room or living room, buy leather corner sofas to make it stand out. You can buy leather corner sofas that are made of natural and pure leather or one that s just made with vinyl leather which is cheaper.
On the WebDevRadio podcast, Michael Kimsal has posted an interview with Keith Casey from this year’s ZendCon 2011 conference.
I got a chance to sit down with (the legend) Keith Casey. Keith’s well known in the PHP community with his web2project project (among other things) and is now poised to be a greater force in the worlds of Twilio and the Austin tech scene. Volume is a little quiet here, so turn it up to hear Keith’s words of wisdom.
You can listen to the episode either via the in-page player or by downloading the mp3 directly to listen at your leisure.
On PHPMaster.com today there’s a new post highlighting the use of pChart to graph out the data from your PHP application. pChart provides an easy interface to draw graphs with GD, supporting alpha transparency, shadowing, spline/cubic curves and much more.
Created and maintained by Jean-Damien Pogolotti, a systems engineer based in Toulouse, France, pChart is a library that creates anti-aliased charts and graphs using PHP. It’s object-oriented code has been recently redesigned and makes it easy to add beautiful, eye-catching data. The library is free for non-profit use and for inclusion in GPL distributed software; licensing plans for other uses start at just 50 Euro. In this article I’ll take you through installing pChart and using it to generate a basic chart, line chart and plot graph.
He walks you through the download and installation of the tool as well as showing the code you’ll need to include to get started with a first script. Their examples show how to create both single- and three-series charts with some sample data and some screenshots of output.
On the NetTuts.com site today they have a (very complete) guide to help you wrangle the Facebook Graph API and make it useful for your application. It makes use of the official Facebook PHP SDK to interface with the Graph API.
Have you ever wanted to learn how to make your applications more social with Facebook? It’s much easier than you think! In this tutorial, we’ll be building an application that reads and publishes data to and from Facebook using Facebook’s Graph API.
The tutorial helps you get signed up on the Facebook developer site, create a first sample application, set up the SDK and make a simple page (with an added bonus of using the Twitter Boostrap for look/feed). There’s a section covering permissions, what kind of data you can expect publicly for both users and posts. They wrap it up with an example of posting back to Facebook though the API and updating the status on your account. The complete code for the tutorial is also available for download.
On the PHPClasses.org site they’ve posted the latest episode of their “Lately in PHP” podcast. This time the focus is on a recent article that was posted to the site about finding good developers by looking in the right place.
The recently published article on attracting talented Web developers by offering remote job positions raised an interesting debate on the challenges, advantages and disadvantages of this way of working. This debate was the main topic of discussion of the episode 18 of the Lately in PHP podcast with Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert, who were joined by César Rodas. César is a top PHPClasses contributor that has been working remotely for several years for companies around the world.
You can listen to this latest episode either via the in-page player, by direct download or by subscribing to their feed.
It’s that time of year again and this year’s PHP Advent has kicked off with the first article posted yesterday. Below is a list of the articles for this year’s advent calendar, to be updated as each new one is released:
Check back for the growing list as this year’s advent gets more great content every day!
Kevin Schroeder has a method in one of his latest posts for hooking your linux-based system into Zend’s phpcloud platform, complete with an automatic upload (so you’re not constantly sftp-ing).
Connecting with the Zend DevCloud in Linux is actually quite easy if you know how to use SFTP. [...] But, as I said in a previous post, I hate having to do command line stuff for each and every file or commit. I like things to work seamlessly. So what I did was write a PHP script that connects to the DevCloud (or any SSH-based endpoint for that matter) and then monitors all of the files and directories for changes, such as a creation, modification or deletion event.
His script (available on github) uses the PECL inotify package to work, but once its set up, you can have the PHP process running the script in the background, pointed at your web root, and have it upload automatically.
In a new post to his blog, Joshua Thijssen documents some of his first steps into the world of the Symfony2 framework (as a developer who has lived mostly in a Zend Framework/CodeIgniter world). His post doesn’t compare the frameworks, it’s just his discovery along the way.
A friend of mine who is a big supporter of Symfony told me to give Symfony1 a shot. Off course I was skeptical since I knew less about symfony1 than I did on Zend_Tool. That, plus the fact we needed to autoload, bootstrap and get two frameworks up and running simultaneously. What could possibly go wrong! Conclusion: I’ve got my tool up and running about a 45 minutes later…
He talks about the process he went through to download, setup and configure the framework and start using a “task” to create a simple executable script. He also briefly compares Symfony1 to Symfony2, noting that SF2 is a bit more “out-out-of-the-box friendly” than SF1. The overall experience was a positive one, though. You can find out more about Symfony1 here and Symfony2 here.
Jake Smith has a new post to his blog today about a feature included in PHP’s Standard PHP Library that you might have overlooked – the FilterIterator’s callback functionality.
The Filter Iterator is probably my second favorite iterator, next to Directory Iterator. There are many great use cases for the Filter Iterator, and when you do filter the original data is left untouched. A Filter Iterator is really simple to use, create a class that extends FilterIterator and adjust the accept method to meet your criteria. This is great and all, but having the ability to create filter iterators on the fly, ones that won’t be used application wide, without having to create a class is even better.
He includes a bit of code defining a FilterCallbackIterator class with a “callback” parameter passed into the constructor (in his case, a closure). Also included is some sample code of it in use – handling an array (well, ArrayIterator) with a simple true/false check on the current array value. You can find out more about this functionality in the PHP manual.
