At about midnight on Sunday July 11, 2010, during the world cup final match between Netherlands and Spain, a three bombs were detonated in Kampala; Kyaddondo Rugby club, home of the MTN Heathens; Ethiopian village in Kabalagagala a popular hangout area; and a club near the Suburb of Ntinda. As of July 13, 2010, there […]
Java Content Management System Woes – OpenCMS 6.2
We are working on migrating an OpenCMS website from one look to another. As expected of all development projects, this cannot be done on the production server, so we are setting up a development environment for the site within our local network. While the basic tools have become better, Java and Tomcat seem faster than […]
Safari 5 Goodies – Different Browsers for Each Tab
I spend most of my day looking through different browsers to ensure our solutions look and behave the same in each of them. Typically I read my RSS Feeds in Firefox using Brief, debug pages using Firebug and Web Developer. BTW the new Firefox 3.6.4 feels a bit snappier than the previous one, but I […]
Fathers Day
A wise man once told me, marriage has many pains attached to it but celibacy has no pleasures. Parenthood is similar, many pains and challenges, but the rewards are so precious. A picture is worth a thousand words so I will say no more Happy Fathers day to all u dads out there, its worth […]
Generate PDF of HTML Content with PHP
This seems to be one of those gray areas, it seems that there is currently no hope in sight. The problem seems to be that the API has to first render the HTML before PDF generation which makes a single step solution impractical. Some options have been to build on top of the WebKit or […]
PHP Externalization of Messages
As part of a project we are involved in there is a need for externalization of messages, both error and labels from the application into an external file. From within Java, this is available as message and resource bundles, and the Spring framework smoothens this process. In PHP this is another story, as the options […]
World Cup Starts Today
Well the World cup ceremonies have started and everyone is pretty excited about the games to be played in South Africa. The web is awash with tools to visualize the results, schedules, and stadiums. It will be interesting to see how all this pans out My favorite is http://www.marca.com/deporte/futbol/mundial/sudafrica-2010/calendario-english.html
Message/Event Driven Application Design
While object oriented may be the way to go with the recent developments in PHP 5, and growth of IDEs like Zend Studio and Netbeans, event driven design seems to provide a way of reducing the coupling between class modules The separation of objects initiating the events, and the processing of the events even with […]