2007 May archive | denshi360

One of the smaller projects I happened to manage these days was the localization of two light-weight corporate web-sites for our client, the Bank of New York in Japan. The project goals were to improve search engine readability by having “nice URLs” and to make future template maintenance easier. Oh, and I finally wanted to get rid of Fusebox, our terrible hangover from the ColdFusion era.

Since the sites are all static and had to follow very strict programming guidelines, I decided to give the beta of PHP’s Zend Framework a shot. Not only recently has it reached maturity and become the mother of all web application frameworks since all components perfectly fit into the new object model of PHP5.

As a result, both sites have been assembled at lightning-speed and are now entirely flat thanks to Zend’s caching module. The Tokyo branch site of the Bank of New York has already launched - the remaining one will follow shortly.

My domain and mail account is finally back in business after having had miscellaneous settlement problems with my domain name registrar and mail service provider, pain-in-the-posterior DomainFactory. They would not let me register as an overseas customer and hence denied credit card payment of my outstanding accounts, i.e. the horrendous amount of EUR 4.00 (four!) for a single email account.

It actually was a little bit more than that - before I have remitted the entire claim via foreign bank transfer. But guess what! Someone unpredictably charged EUR 4.00 on top of the fixed remittance fee somewhere. Perhaps the receiving bank in Germany…? However, one will not miss a gesture of goodwill.

After weeks of DNS downtime, an offline mail account and numerous unsuccessful attempts to have a word with the management, I finally moved everything to a better hosting provider in the US. They even allow credit cards.

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Archive for May, 2007

Bank of New York goes Zend Framework

No more DomainFactory!

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