Ramblings of a father, husband, tech lover, amateur poet, book lover, who believes family makes him & culture holds all
It is just Day 2 of my experiences in the trenches, regular work, had kept me from this but I managed to get some time to keep digging. As a followup to my Doctrine 2 – Day 1 – Commentary from the Trenches. The models are up and configured, and the unit testing is setup […]
There is just too much going on so I thought I should put these thoughts down so that I do not lose my mind from the excitement and anticipation that comes from things moving very fast and innovation being spured at a pace which is mind boggling. PHP In my opinion the stabilization of PHP […]
I am not one to rant and rave but I seem to have been pushed over the edge this morning, but a large Telco service which leaves a lot to be desired yet despite being innovative seem to be leading more and more wastage in terms of time which would be used for more productive […]
The new year is here so it is time to get cracking on infrastructure for the year’s development projects. There are a number of things we have been putting off, but now that a number of our client hosts support PHP 5.3, it is the right time to move up the stack for our ORM […]
Just wanted to share a Joomla (1.7) tip on how we were able to integrate custom content from an external web application with custom PHP code via the Jumi component and plugin (http://bit.ly/wWIQmz). Joomla by default does not allow custom PHP code to be added to articles (content pages) functionality which is provided by the […]
Updated: 01/05/12 – a friend suggested that I better make my tasks SMART (Specific Measurable Attainable Relevant Timely) so I have added items in italics where I think I was not SMART Well a new year is upon us and many resolutions have been made and will be broken before the first half of the year is […]
This was a comment on Albert Mucunguzi (@albertmuc) blog post Why UHMG’s GeNext Campaign is a Waste of Resources (http://almuc.me/blog/2011/12/why-uhmgs-genext-campaign-is-a-waste-of-resources/) but then I figured why not add my voice to those who think this is a waste of time and provide some “simpler” alternatives Albert I agree with you all the way, infact China has had the […]
Since Santa is listening, below are my PHP wishes for 2012: Standard Interfaces like Java which are used by many projects so that developers and architects focus on implementation Standardized Web Application Project Layout just like J2EE Web Application Directory Structure (http://java.sun.com/blueprints/code/projectconventions.html) or Linux Standard Base (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base) I am learning Symfony 2 over the next coupla […]
Okay now this is a ranting post … Mozilla decides that their development process for Firefox is too slow since Google Chrome and Microsoft Internet Explorer are eating their lunch … So they made what I consider the dumbest experiment any software organization can do, copy a model and use it. I do not have […]
I know the first thing that came to mind is who gathered, where and for what. And for those of ye who have knowledge of old English or Celtic history you are thinking of a meeting of wizards, witches, faires, elves, dwarves, gnomes or smurfs 🙂 Well it is nothing like that, this is where […]