Month: September 2011

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ORM Anti-pattern – Right conclusion, wrong reasons – Rebuttal

This is a rebuttal for Right conclusion, wrong reasons  (http://bit.ly/oULuaz ) for an ORM being an anti-pattern. The main purpose of an ORM (Object Relational Mapper) is to fix the object-relational mismatch, which is a mismatch between how an object is treated differently by the object oriented and relational paradigms which are fundamental constructs in programming […]

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Sean Kingston Show – Kampala September 2011 – From the VIP Stands for a First Timer

The long awaited Sean Kingston show in Kampala, finally happened on September 16, 2011. Long awaited as it was pushed from earlier in the year due to Sean’s accident. Interesting enough was the buzz about his arrival, only got into town at 1pm on the day of the show, most people were preaching doom that he would […]

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Goodbye to Andy Whitfield – Star of Spartacus

Andy, I only got to see your great acting in the first season of Spartacus: Blood and Sand (http://www.facebook.com/SpartacusBloodandSandd) where u brought the character to life. A man driven by love and later the desire for revenge, you brought a raw chemistry and brilliance to a slave, bringing hope and optimisim in an otherwise lost […]

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Zend_Navigation Render the SubMenu for Active Menu Item using a Partial

One of the biggest problems with Zend_Navigation helpers is using partials to render sub-menus in order to achieve customized rendering especially when additional properties have been defined. The approach to the solution is as follows: // find the first active menu item $subnav = $this->navigation()->menu()->findOneByActive(1); // The finder methods return null for no matches so […]

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