A while back I was contacted by Cal Evans over at the Zend Developer Zone to contribute to a new podcast he was starting up called PHP Abstract. Very cool idea, a small 5 to 7 minute podcast by PHP developers where they talk about a topic of interest to them (and hoepfully to you). [...]
My apologies for the lateness (and shortness) of this post. Real life has intruded this week. More news on this later. But here’s what’s jumping around in my brain: Nate from CakePHP is helping me out with the work on my proposal for an interactive console. Trax (a Cake “competitor”) has an interactive shell so [...]
I’ve gotten some work done on Rallyhat lately, mostly on the train ride home but some stuff in the evenings when I need an internet connection for looking up some sites and testing. Here’s what I’ve gotten working: User signup (complete with email and activation code) User authentication The next thing I’m working on is [...]
On the CakePHP mailing list I see frequent questions about various ACL and authorization plugins that are available for cake. I’ve never used anything beyond simple authentication and access control and always felt that ACL schemes were either too hard to implement or too restrictive. Honestly, do you really need to have one person who [...]
Via one of the RSS feeds I read I found out about an interesting contest where people are asking to post their thoughts on how Rails has made you a better programmer. The winner gets a free book. I thought “What the heck, I don’t care if I win the book but I do need [...]
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