Zachary Kessin

Biography

Zachary Kessin has been working with free software and web development for more than ten years. He is a frequent speaker at Jerusalem.pm and has spoken at YAPC::Israel.

Recently he has been working on using code generation to build Ajax applications (hosting an Ajax Tools Wiki) and involved in e-commerce. In addition to computers, he is an avid costumer and a founding member of the Israeli branch of the Society for Creative Anachronism.

Zachary lives in Israel with his wife and two stepchildren.

Articles

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Code As Data: Reflection in PHP
Publish Date: Apr. 26, 2007At the end of the day, all code gets turned into data before it is executed. Sometimes, you can use that fact to help ease some of your programming chores. Zachary Kessin examines the PHP reflection capabilities and shows how you can use them to automate the creation of unit tests. PHP Code Generation with Elisp
Publish Date: Nov. 23, 2005There's plenty of near-repetition in software development; writing very similar code over and over again. Stop copying, pasting, and modifying, and start automating the process! Zachary Kessin shows how to use Emacs Lisp to generate useful and reusable database-access code for PHP. Calling SOAP Servers from JS in Mozilla
Publish Date: Jun. 23, 2005Interacting with web servers through forms and user actions alone seems so dry and boring. The full-fledged SOAP client built into the Mozilla family of browsers can make your applications more active and useful. Zachary Kessin shows how to write a simple SOAP server in PHP that communicates with Mozilla through JavaScript.