Monthly Archives: December 2010
Home for The Holidays
It’s good to be home. The holidays have been good this year. Haven’t seen the fam in a while now and I got to reconnect with old friends from high school and go skiing and snowboarding again. The weather in … Continue reading
In Pursuit of The Datagrid
Well ZF Data Grid looked promising on the outside, but upon analysis of the code – it’s junk. It’s really too bad because there are a lot of nice features, if all you do is click things with a mouse. … Continue reading
Practical usage of the Zend Tool zf.sh or zf.bat
Zend Framework comes with a handy command line program that you can use to quickly build your applications. It even has support for creating models and modules. This program is shipped with the Zend Framework – perhaps not the library … Continue reading
What It Means To Be Human
Being human is, at its core, the ability to improve the self. We are marvelous creatures. Our greatest asset is our ability to mold ourselves in to almost anything we desire. We can can learn new skills. Any of us, … Continue reading
Philosophical Musing on the Subway
To know all that that is knowable. To have control over all that is controllable. To act with kindness and righteousness even when no one is watching and there are no consequences. This I say is the closest I can … Continue reading
Rethinking What It Means To Help Someone
Before you read this, please take a moment to realize that I am one of those bonk heads too. I am just as guilty of succumbing to the very real and normal human frustrations that we all have as rather … Continue reading
A Zen Guide to Getting Help for Newbies
The Setup So you’ve gone and got it in to your head that you want to make a website, or maybe you want to pump out one of those wicked cool iPhone Apps that are all the rage with the … Continue reading
CouchDB is cool, but is it cool enough?
So in pursuit of the ultimate CMS and eCommerce system I’ve encountered quite a bit of resistance while trying to develop polymorphic concepts within the traditional RDBMS model. I’ve isolated basically two primary methods of accomplishing this in the DB. … Continue reading
How To apt-get Yourself a Web Server
You might think of this as a companion tutorial guide to my Ubuntu Server In A Box – One Click Installer or maybe you want to think of that as the companion installer to this guide. Either way I hope … Continue reading
Vim Configuration
Here’s my ~/.vimrc file with all the extra settings I use and some nice macros for writing PHP code. GeSHi is broken because Benny Baumann aka BenBE the creator of GeSHi doesn’t like vim or emacs and so I can’t … Continue reading
