December 8, 2009 | In: open source, Work
I have not given up on my goal to fully add Ruby to the languages I speak. I have already worked my way through the book Ruby on Rails for PHP Developers which is a great starting point I found, if you are, like myself, fluent in one, and interested in...
October 22, 2009 | In: Linux ubuntu, open source, Personal, Work
Congratulations Microsoft on the newest release of Windows. Some error messages for your consideration: Smash forehead on keyboard to continue. Press any key to continue or any other key to quit. BREAKFAST.SYS halted... Cereal port not...
March 25, 2009 | In: Code Igniter, Flash, open source, Work
I finished adding the AMF library to the ShantiCMS last night. So now there is a Amf_gateway controller available, also added the services, as well as activating the services browser. I am really happy about this as future use of ShantiCMS with Flash...
March 17, 2009 | In: Code Igniter, Flash, Links, open source, Web, Work
Finally! I had been hoping for a library for a while. So while I continue my way through my RubyRail literature I will use this to further use CI! Now the AMFPHP library has come true. Will integrate this into Shanti CMS shortly. Now using the CI...
February 18, 2009 | In: Flash, open source, Work
...is it true? I know, I know, I so solemnly declared I had found my mountain, Django, pyamf, with a touch of twister on the serverside where what I needed to master. Well as so often in Technology, things aren't always that simple. I have managed...
February 12, 2009 | In: Linux ubuntu, open source, Work
A few months ago I read a post about the future of AMFPHP and decided to start looking for alternate back-end solutions that I want to explore and implement in future productions. PYAMF quickly crystallized as the best candidate. I am especially impressed...
November 15, 2008 | In: Code Igniter, open source, Personal, Web, Work
The last weeks, I spent a lot of time re-working my Shanti CMSes SEO-ability. And the efforts are starting to bare fruit. Or so it seems anyways... - I polished the function generating and submitting the sitemap.xml function (the webmaster-tools now...
November 13, 2008 | In: Flash, Links, open source, Personal
I had my first suspicions when I saw that one of the major contributors to the the AMFPHP project had somewhat inexplicable political leanings. No that is not really true, what did raise them was the fact that AMFPHP has been stuck at its current version...
September 29, 2008 | In: Code Igniter, open source, Work
Two core elements have been keeping me busy on my Shanti CMS. SEO and Remoting. For SEO optimization I added implemented the Google Sitemap code found over on the CI Wiki. So now when adding content is modified via the CMS, the sitemap xml is...
September 10, 2008 | In: open source, Personal, Web, Work
an interesting read: 1. Use PHP Only When You Need it 2. Use Many Tables With PHP and MYSQL for Scalability 3. Never, ever trust your users 4. Invest in PHP Caching 5. Speed up PHP Development with an IDE, Templates and Snippets 6. Make Better...