Just doing a quick look through the few posts that exist on the site and notice that PHP Taco appears to have disappeared.
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I’ve had slack5.com registered for the last 5 years.
At the time, Yahoo had a special for 5 year registration. Now the time to renew has come up and I will not be renewing due to the cost.
Yahoo is not providing the option to change the renew length from 5 years (about $50) to a one year.
So, as much as I hate to loose any domains I will be letting slack5 expire (also, yahoo’s system is so horrable I’m not able to ‘cancel’ the account – their system just hangs).
I simply cannot justify the cost for the domains, so slack5.com has become slackfive.com
My current project I’m building with the Zend Framework and I needed to be able to use the fckeditor.
Integration is extremely easy using a helper with the framework. Continue reading
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I was searching around the net for information on Zend Framework and phpDoctrine and came across Php Taco.
At first glance, I was pretty excited to see how it was setup (Zend Framework, phpDoctrine, Modular layout, etc) as this is basically how I have my zf projects setup. Continue reading
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This post is how to save a personal word list to TinyMCE’s spellcheck, or Add to Dictionary as I prefer to refer to it as.
As you might know, TinyMCE is capable of spellchecking, but what if we want to add a word to the dictionary so that the word never comes up again as a typo? After spending some time with Google, I never found a solution to my liking, so I had the unpleasurable task of adding the functionality myself. To my surprises, it was much easier that I expected. Continue reading
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Hello, I recently posted on my first impression on Django.
Generally, my first script for trying out anything new is a bookmark script because it can be as simple or complex as you want.
Before starting, this post assumes you have a working install of Django. I would strongly suggest looking over the tutorial here for a more in depth explanation as to what everything is doing. This post is only a mile high overview and is to simply show some of process of creating a project along with the (minimal) amount of code it takes.
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The other day, my wife and I were discussing a friend of ours.
She is seeing a guy who is, to put it bluntly, a dead beat.
She is now starting to get tired of dealing with him, but is simply afraid of being alone, unable to find a guy.
Now this is what sparked this posting. I (like most guys) simply do not understand women.
I pointed out to my wife, that men are very quite simple. As men go, we are quite primal in nature. All a woman has todo remember three simple things. Continue reading
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I was recently working on somebody’s computer – WOW!!
This posting is simply to show how much the environment a computer is in effects everything.
About a year ago, I setup a fileserver for a friend using an old computer they had laying around (old, old duron). About a month ago I get the computer back because it stopped working. The system simply would not boot successfully (perhaps once out of every 10 tries).
I spent this weekend checking out Django.
I have been wanting something for personal projects for rapid development.
I am a strong believer in using whatever works best for the task at hand.
First, a little background:
We use Symfony where I work. While symfony is great, it is very resource intensive (we run a few dozen ecommerce sites with a database holding around 200 tables storing many gig of data) – so, in reality symfony really does fit the project. The downside is everything is running on multiple, mulitcore servers sitting on 8 to 16 Gig of memory.
While I cannot justify a beefy server setup for my own (or a clients) project, I do enjoy the benefits of using a framework.
I have been developing with the Zend Framework for outside projects and really do like the features available, but the biggest thing Zend is missing is a crud generator (I have even started building my own).
In my latest search to see what was out there, I came across a post comparing Symfony, RoR, and Django here. Like any opinion, it must be read with a grain of salt. I can however relate to the performance mentioned regarding the symfony framework. From past readings I was not very interested in RoR, so that left Django (which from the poster had the best performance). Continue reading
