December 2005

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Work Commences on New IBL Site
12.30.05 | Permalink | Comments Off

Yes, gentle reader, we’re finally getting underway with the long-awaited IBL website. I had bandied about ideas for what technology to use. I’m still not 100% sure, but it’s obviously going to be some sort of content management system. I’m not going to write my own because, well, I really don’t have the time for [...]
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Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Coder
12.19.05 | Permalink | Comments Off

Okay, be honest now. As a programmer, you get very attached to the work you’ve done. It’s not always good, but it’s YOURS damnit! But do you ever really consider that somebody somewhere else will have to deal with the code you’ve written at a later date? I’ve come to realization that actually thinking about [...]
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Zend Certificate *Finally* Arrives
12.15.05 | Permalink | Comments Off

Went and picked up my framed certificate from Zend that they mailed to me from the post office today. Nice to finally have it…I’ll put it up on the wall of my basement office once it gets built in the summer. However, what bugs me is how long it took to get here. The postage [...]
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Back in the groove
12.13.05 | Permalink | Comments Off

I was surprised at how quickly I got into the groove working at the new job, considering I knew nothing about what I would be doing when I got there. For now, I’m working on making changes to TunerFriends, which is an online community for people who like to trick out and modify their cars. [...]
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Zend Framework Webcast
12.05.05 | Permalink | Comments Off

I managed to catch the Zend Framework Webcast that the folks from phpArchitect managed to pull together. No new news, really. Although it was nice to see some coding examples where they showed how to use ActiveRecord (familiar with this from my work with Ruby on Rails), ActiveMail and ActiveSearch, which is a port of [...]