Archive for January, 2008
Power Outage
Power went out at work today, infact power was actually out for a good couple of blocks (street lights included). Not much you can do as a programmer for a web development/design firm with the power out…
MySQL Workbench 5 Beta (Or: WTF?)
So I’m setting up my windows PC at home (hooray compsci classes being an all Microsoft setup, requiring Visual Studio 2005), downloading the MySQL GUI tools, launching them to test when I notice that MySQL Workbench went through a HUGE overhaul. When I say huge I mean “It Actually Works Now And Looks Completely Different” [...]
Singleton-Factory Hybrids FTW
Slowly but surely my framework is coming off the ground. I decided to adopt a singleton design pattern for my Cache, Template, and possibly any other engines I might have. Originally my design started as a factory, however it is now somewhat of a hybrid as there is a ::load() function that loads arbitrary classes [...]
PHP MVC Presentation
These are the powerpoint slides from the presentation I gave at Bar Camp Texas, 2008. The slides are currently out of date, I’ll publish the fixed ones later. The slides are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. PHP MVC Slides (Powerpoint 2007) PHP MVC Slides (PDF)
PHP and MVC
So, crazy me decided to give a talk at BarCamp Texas on MVC design in PHP. With the prevalence of MVC frameworks becoming more and more ubiquitous in PHP development (CakePHP, Symfony, and the Zend frameworks), I wanted to make sure that (a) the non-developer types were introduced to such styles of PHP development, and [...]