A lot of the giants have changed focus or lost whatever it was I liked from the beginning. ... Read More

I’ve been working some with jQuery and Ruby lately, as you might know they both have very neat fluent interfaces for writing short and easily understandable code. Especially Ruby’s array and string handling should be something that can be done in PHP so I started googling for something nice but so far the best I’ve been able to find is pooQuery. Update: Apparently pooQuery really is a joke (see the comments at the bottom of this post), anyway here is an example from it of how fluent stuff can go too far: ... Read More

Today I noticed a nice, short example of the Zend Framework, jQuery and Smarty stack I’m using. It’s got a lot of niceties from each component in a very small space, perfect for showcasing each and how they can be integrated!... Read More

For some time now I’ve been working on an administrative backend system. I quickly found the need to extend DB Table with more stuff than needed when I extended the Zend Framework, it’s mostly convenience functions designed to reduce repetitive code snippets. ... Read More

I’ve been working quite a bit with the editor lately and it feels stable enough to release, I’ll probably implement a few more features in the future, enough for now though.... Read More

For some time now I’ve felt the need to start a different place where I can write about whatever interests me, not just IT stuff related to what I do professionally. The result is InferredLogic, there I will probably reflect on the current state of humanity, futurism and transhumanism for some time as that is what currently interests me in general. Therefore the Venus 2.0 post has been transferred there.... Read More

I’ve read quite a lot of more or less negative posts about Hardy Heron (HH) lately. Don’t upgrade yet, let them release a few upgrades first, hardware problems, no major new stuff anyway, the list goes on.... Read More