Taylor is a freelance web and desktop application developer living in Suzhou in Eastern China. Started from Borland development tools series (C++Builder, Delphi), published a book on InterBase, certified as Borland Expert in 2003, he shifted to web development with typical LAMP configuration. Later he started working with jQuery, Symfony, Bootstrap, Dart, etc.
Taylor's articles
Taylor Ren takes a look at Nette Framework, the 3rd most popular framework from our recent survey. Come see what's special about it - and what isn't!
Taylor Ren shows you how easy it is to build a custom Symfony2 Twig filter, all while using PHPUnit to respect TDD practices.
Taylor Ren continues his series about Symfony2 Authentication and Authorization by adding Registration and Login
Learn about authorization and authentication in Symfony2 with Taylor Ren's tutorial - covering an invite system, verification, and more.
Taylor Ren shows you how you can use CockpitCMS, the Developer's CMS, to create a custom trip-journal quickly and easily.
Taylor Ren demonstrates some advanced PHP extension development with the PHP-CPP library and C++
Taylor Ren explains how you can generate XLS files with charts using PHPExcel - a PHP library
Taylor Ren introduces PINQ - a PHP library based on LINQ for providing a unified API for querying arrays, iterators and external data sources
In this article, we briefly introduced the basic functionality of PINQ and how to use it in a web app.
Taylor Ren explains how you can use MS Interop to create Microsoft Word documents in PHP ready, immediately ready for the printer
Taylor Ren explains how you can use Phreeze to autogenerate CRUD applications for your already existing databases - often in already existing apps.
Taylor Ren goes through a pre-deployment checklist for Symfony apps, listing things you should do before thinking about moving to production
Taylor Ren looks at a relatively new suite of DB tools - Valentina - and gives you his opinion on it.
Taylor Ren continues with his C++ tutorial on developing PHP extensions through PHP-CPP
Taylor Ren explains how we can develop PHP extensions in C++ with the help of the PHP-CPP library
Learn about running functional tests with PhpUnit in a Symfony2 app, prepopulated with sample data through Doctrine's Data Fixtures
Learn how to use Doctrine's Data Fixtures in Symfony2 to provide your app with sample data
Taylor Ren explains and demonstrates the use of Cursors in MySQL's Stored Procedures
Discover big numbers and arbitrary precision in PHP
Learn how to implement dart polymer widgets in a Symfony app
Learn how to build Polymer Dart widgets and implement them into a Symfony app
Revisit the long forgotten topic of Stored Procedures in MySQL and PHP
Learn about unique index and the way they can increase performance when built correctly
Learn how to combine PHP and WMI to dig deep into Windows and get insight into a machine's hardware and software details via PHP
Learn how to implement Dart and PHP through the resurrection of an old programming tutorial sample game.
The final part of this Symfony series touches on pagination, unit testing, NativeQuery and image watermarks with GD
After bootstrapping in part 1, we continue with the series and get into heavy development of this web app - head to toe - with Symfony 2
Learn how to build a personal book collection web app from scratch with Symfony 2