Well it has been some time since I wrote, but it has been pretty busy over at work, with one issue after another to be resolved. We have been having an issue with OpenCMS backups on the shell, even opened up an issue on the dev mailing list (http://lists.opencms.org/pipermail/opencms-dev/2011q2/035562.html) where the backups at the shell […]
MySQL Design and Administration Tools – Q1 2011
MySQL (http:/www.mysql.com), the web database formely fully open source, then bought by Sun for $1bn, which was then swallowed by the all mighty database giant Oracle (http://www.oracle.com) is finally growing up. From MySQL 5.0 with the introduction of views and stored procedures (terrible performance) to 5.1 which stabilized the features to 5.5 (the latest GA) version which […]
Browser Wars – 2011 Q1 Edition
Yeap, I have just upgraded to the new Firefox 4.0 b12 and it seems to bring Firefox back in the browser race which was being dominated by Google Chrome (www.google.com/chrome) and Internet Explorer 8 with 9 coming back I have always been against Firefox for being a memory hog, blame me for running many plugins […]
Zend Framework – Auto Loading and Sessions
The journey is still going on, the porting still happening. So what happens when the you need to setup up an autoloader so that you can remove all the include, include_once, require, require_once calls in the different classes. It is also necessary in cases where you need to instantiate a class based on a combination […]
Zend Framework Setup
Like all things to be done, this should be the simplest, just drag, drop and boom a page would automagically appear. Well that only happens in fairy tales, and it seems that we are in the real world over here. The setup seems to be fairly easy, download a copy of the framework, unzip and […]
Zend Framework – The Journey
The development team that I lead is standardizing on Zend Framework (http://www.framework.zend.com) as a development platform. This category of posts will be dealing with the issues that we are running into, and how we are solving them, to help alleviate other people’s pain. We have reviewed a number of platforms, but essentially narrowed it down to […]
Joomla Nested Category Issues – Round 2 – Multiple Sections in Blog Layout
Well the problem still stands, my client has 3 levels of content and Joomla 1.5 only supports 2. We have gone through most of the solutions: Joomla 1.6 – totally unusable given the time and technical constraints, Content Construction Kits (CCKs) like JSebold (http://www.jseblod-cck.com/) bring on more complexity than the CMS itself Move to WordPress […]
Joomla 1.5 – Nested Category Issues
The things clients make you go through … We have been working on a rush magazine job using Joomla (http://www.joomla.org) , and all was fine until the client brought out their “Mind Map” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map) essentially a representation of the information architecture for their site. And like no other, they had 3 and 4 levels of […]
Joomla 1.6 Released
2011 seems to be heating up in the CMS space Along the heels of Drupal 7 (http://drupal.org/) which had worldwide release parties, and WordPress 3.1 coming soon (http://wordpress.org/), Joomla has released 1.6 on 01/10/11 with hushed tones. I hope that this means that we get reduced hacking attempts and better performance for plugins and modules. […]
Splitting a large XML file into smaller well formed files
As we get into the holiday mood it seems a rush in order to solve eminent problems that have plagued us throught the year. One of the most popular data exchange and export formats is XML. While XML files provide a means of moving data between systems, especially legacy systems, an issue arises when you […]