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
Nette Framework: First Impressions
By Taylor Ren,
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!
Building a Custom Twig Filter the TDD Way
By Taylor Ren,
Taylor Ren shows you how easy it is to build a custom Symfony2 Twig filter, all while using PHPUnit to respect TDD practices.
Symfony2 Registration and Login
By Taylor Ren,
Taylor Ren continues his series about Symfony2 Authentication and Authorization by adding Registration and Login
Symfony2 Pre-registration and Invite System
By Taylor Ren,
Learn about authorization and authentication in Symfony2 with Taylor Ren's tutorial - covering an invite system, verification, and more.
Introducing CockpitCMS – a CMS for Developers
By Taylor Ren,
Taylor Ren shows you how you can use CockpitCMS, the Developer's CMS, to create a custom trip-journal quickly and easily.
Developing PHP Extensions with C++ and PHP-CPP: Advanced
By Taylor Ren,
Taylor Ren demonstrates some advanced PHP extension development with the PHP-CPP library and C++
Generate Excel Files and Charts with PHPExcel
By Taylor Ren,
Taylor Ren explains how you can generate XLS files with charts using PHPExcel - a PHP library
PINQ – Querify Your Datasets – Faceted Search
By Taylor Ren,
Taylor Ren introduces PINQ - a PHP library based on LINQ for providing a unified API for querying arrays, iterators and external data sources
PINQ – querify your datasets – introduction
By Taylor Ren,
In this article, we briefly introduced the basic functionality of PINQ and how to use it in a web app.
How To Make Microsoft Word Documents with PHP
By Taylor Ren,
Taylor Ren explains how you can use MS Interop to create Microsoft Word documents in PHP ready, immediately ready for the printer