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  Odds and Ends

  05.31.06 | Permalink | Comments Off

  The past few days I’ve been working on a couple of different things.
  1) working on adding in support for Subversion to Rephlux
  2) added in some new stat reports (all in Ruby too) for the IBL website
  3) ran through the tutorial for the Zend Framework and have started making plans for a website using the framework [...]

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  It’s Not Just Birds That Migrate

  05.28.06 | Permalink | Comments Off

  One of the cooler features of Ruby on Rails is it’s support for a concept that they call database migrations. In a nutshell you can create Ruby code that will generate tables and insert data into them. Why is this a good idea? It’s also database agnostic, so it doesn’t matter what [...]

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  I’m A PHP Plumber

  05.26.06 | Permalink | Comments Off

  I find more and more these days that the description "infrastructure programmer" seems to be more and more applicable to the type of work I do. My current employer owns an ever-expanding number of discussion boards (like http://www.fordforums.com and www.tunerfriends.com). So, we buy them from people and have to move them over from [...]

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  The Upcoming PHP Framework War

  05.23.06 | Permalink | Comments Off

  (Wow! Two posts in one day!)
  There is a great blog posting by Jared White where he is talking about Winning The PHP 5 Framework Wars. He brings up some very valid points (mainly that there will be no winner because adoption of PHP 5 has been so slow. In some of the comments [...]

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  I’ve Got iPod Withdrawl

  05.23.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  My 4th gen 20 GB iPod finally gave up the ghost on Thursday. The first sign? I kept locking up when I tried to transfer files to it. So I followed the instructions, removed Rockbox from it and put the original firmware back. Restored it (according to the Apple instructions again) [...]

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