@TheKeyboard » plugins http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard Facebook should've be written in unicornSchemaLang, because everyone *knows* that PHP is no good for anything, right? Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:05:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Lazyweb Questions – April 2009 http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/2009/04/09/lazyweb-questions-april-2009/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/2009/04/09/lazyweb-questions-april-2009/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:59:34 +0000 Chris Hartjes http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/?p=455 The book is doing quite well, thanks. 42 copies sold as I type this. I am going to give away one of my “Framework Apocalypse” t-shirts to one lucky random customer when I get to 100. Feedback has been great, so spread the word about the book! As Matt Curry pointed out in his review of my book, don’t let the name fool you. It could’ve been subtitled “how to think like a CakePHP developer”.

So, I have a few questions for the lazyweb (aka my awesome readers). I’m hoping they can point me in the right direction.:

  • At work, my boss is wondering if there is a way for us to determine *ahead* of time if queries being generated by our web service are going to really churn the database and lock things up. Since the queries are very dynamic, I can only do so much in the caching department. Application is PHP-based, built using Code Igniter
  • Inspired by my friend Joel feel free to share your essential VIM plugins. Mine are netrw, autoclose, 0scan, matchit, paster (I use it all the time at work), surround, taglist, vcscommand (although I have started using a git plugin that I can’t find the download page for, and then a bunch of syntax highlighting plugins for Django, Git, PHP (can’t remember which one), Python (can’t remember which one) and Xquery.
  • Tools for refactoring in other languages look awesome (Towelie for Ruby, Rope for Python. What tools are out there for PHP?

    • Let me know via the comments what you know or find out. Thanks and enjoy the Easter / Passover break!

    ]]>     http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/2009/04/09/lazyweb-questions-april-2009/feed/ 1     CakePHP Plugins Server http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/2009/01/29/cakephp-plugins-server/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/2009/01/29/cakephp-plugins-server/#comments Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:47:05 +0000 Chris Hartjes http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/?p=416 I was asking around for a plugin / library / component / *something* that can help me to easily integrate the use of PayPal into the CakePHP application I’m building to be the web site for my upcoming book. One of the movers and shakers in the CakePHP community, (you know, those people who actually contribute some code) John Anderson (aka psychic, the lead on the CakePHP Cookbook project) mentioned that he had a plugin I could use. He also provided a link to an experimental CakePHP plugin server he’s setup and asked people to play around with. That PayPal plugin was one of the ones being offered.

    Basically, you download a CakePHP console application that John wrote which speaks to the plugin server, and then it allows you to install any of the plugins that are on the server. Perhaps the first steps towards a number of plugin servers?

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