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  Some more info about the Zend Framework

  10.25.05 | Permalink | Comments Off

  Intersting post over at Wez Furlong’s blog where he talks about the Zend Framework. Check out the comments for lots of whining and gnashing of teeth. Why do some people hate Zend so much? They’re just trying to make money off of PHP. Just like every developer who gets paid to work in PHP, if [...]

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  Bad programming practices, example 1

  10.24.05 | Permalink | Comments Off

  As shocking as it seems, I sometimes don’t follow smart programming practices. As a good example, I was refactoring the code that I use to keep track of results from the simulation baseball league I am the commissioner of. It’s a PHP 4 app. Specifically, I was changing database access to use the Active Reord [...]

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  Programmer Grrl Does Grreat

  10.20.05 | Permalink | Comments Off

  A big shoutout needs to go to Amy Hoy who is writing a book about Ruby with the Pragmatic Programmer guys. Also check out her interview with the folks from the Ruby on Rails podcast.

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  PHP Frameworks…are they worth the trouble?

  10.20.05 | Permalink | Comments Off

  My open source project has gotten underway, as the three conspirators met and hashed out how we wanted the view/template part of the system to work. We got to play around with SubEthaEdit and it’s great collaborative capabilities. It was cool to see me edit something in the document, then the other guy, and then [...]

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  My first steps towards open source

  10.17.05 | Permalink | Comments Off

  Tomorrow I’m starting some work on my supersecretsideproject, which is going to be an open source project. I’ve never done any code that I’ve given away under open source, only paid stuff. Many moons ago I wrote a system to interface with Canada Post’s eParcel system, and I managed to sell a copy of it [...]

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