Mike's Blog
MVC
Welcome to the first live site to use the latest version of my own MVC (for use with Smarty) that is now successfully running on top of PHP 5.3. Recent work on it has been a fun ride, driven mostly out of a desire to have controller classes whose names do not clash with those of auto-generated classes from PHP Doctrine. i.e. they would potentially still clash if it wasn't for namespaces :0]
Perl 5 point 10 in layman terms
As a developer, one of the great things I love about Gentoo (Linux distribution with BSD 'ports-like' package management) is the feeling it gives you that eveything you do to your system has an undo button. (For the record, I have at least come to my senses about this need in a production situation.) A great example of this is layman, which I think is fair to say is a slightly more intuitive version of managing an apt sources file. Today I realised there is a portage overlay (for use with layman) that I have been missing out on and perhaps it's because it's a fairly recent addition but it comes just in time for me to try and get more serious about hacking in Perl.
Its pretty clear that soon everyone will be speaking XML
I'm going to be ordering 'XMPP: The Definitive Guide' today (ISBN 059652126X). I have a project coming up which, fingers crossed, will be an ideal opportunity to become versed in this technology. I remember a few years ago, when I came across the Jabber project, I was really excited about it and started using the Exodus IM client all time. I even got my girlfriend (at the time) to register an account. I also remember going to stpeter's website and taking pointers for creating a decent personal websites (which wasn't a blog). I remember thinking this was eventually going to be *huge* and I'm kind of kicking myself now that it never occured to me, that like a lot exciting open source technology, people will eventually be adopting it without even know they're doing it, or at least not realising the significance of its openness. Exciting times. Anyway enough with the jibber-jabber, apparently I have a 'decent read' to get through and this one isn't a Hermann Hesse novel.