This is a repost of the story I posted some time ago on on 500px. California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus) is one of the rarest birds in North America. Hunted and poached close to extinction, only ~400 of these majestic birds are alive today, with only a fraction of them reintroduced into the wild. Last summer… Read more »
Posts By: Dan Osipov
Doctrine 2.0 Entity Serialization
Doctrine 2.0 documentation recommends against serializing entities. If you ignore the documentation, you will be faced with PHP notices, such as Notice: Unknown: “id” returned as member variable from __sleep() but does not exist in Unknown on line 0 as well as broken object relations on unserialized objects. But its very tempting to use the… Read more »
Bisna lib and Doctrine 2.1
Those of you using Bisna library to easily hook Doctrine 2 ORM into Zend Framework, may find that it is incompatible with Doctrine 2.1. The reason is the rewritten annotation reader in Doctrine 2.1, which Bisna doesn’t support. However, its easy to update it. In Bisna/Application/Container/DoctrineContainer.php, find the method startORMMetadata (should be the last method… Read more »
Overwintering Monarchs
Every year millions of monarch butterflies fly more than three thousand miles from Canada to Mexico, to the same mountains where a year earlier their grandparents spent the winter. This phenomenon is the migration of the Eastern Monarch. Last month I took the trip, organized by Expedition Travel, to the Transvolcanic mountain range in Mexico… Read more »
Emergence of a dragonfly
It’s been a few months since I’ve posted anything on the blog. It’s not because I’m slacking off – quite the opposite, I’ve been extremely busy. But there is a lot to write about, and the post activity will increase. Starting now. It’s always mesmerizing to watch the process of metamorphosis. Last summer I had… Read more »