Dear NHL.com,
I want you to know that here where i live, in hockey loving alberta, we have a concept that your web app, and email updates dont seem to.
timezones.
it’s not hard. really. we take a base time and decided an offset for each region. then, you can always know what time it is where your customers are. And since we gave you lanny mcdonald, the sutter brothers and basically owned the stanely cup for most of the 80s and early 90s i think our credentials are worth you knowing our timezone.
so, in closing, thank you for emailing me to tell me the playoffs start today, but that info was already clear to me since i had already been watching them for over an hour.
regards,
ruzz.
i don’t think i will ever quite understand the muted logic of eclipse and its code lookup. how some projects it works, some it doesn’t.
trying to get eclipse to do code lookup is sometimes like trying to pick up the sweetest girl in the bar. if you can walk that fine balance between interest and disinterest you may score.
thing is, i really am interested in having my code assist, you know, assist.
i’ve been waiting for a stable api version of 1.1 so that i could take a bit of time and get to know the new symfony. well, it’s here finally.
i’m excited to see way fewer dependancies, both in object terms and reliance on other external projects (bye pake!).
i did a quick no instructions upgrade of one of my test projects and broke it pretty good. i guess maybe i should read the instructions after all :P
tomorrow.
it’s a good day in symfony land.
by the by: svn co http://svn.symfony-project.com/tags/RELEASE_1_1_0_BETA2
“ svn externals are like sex till your external falls off the end of the earth
ruzz, march 21, 2008 after noticing svn.symfony-project.com was down again.
sometimes you need to edit properties for a folder or file, from the command line in os x. for example:
>svn propedit svn:ignore cache
which will most likely bring you back some hokey pokey about your svn property editor not being set. which is annoying. like plenty of things are annoyin on macs. but fear not dear reader; fear not.
you can simply set the value for SVN_EDITOR thus:
> export SVN_EDITOR = nano
that sets the nano editor as the default. some of you may prefer textmate or other, but if i’m doing terminal stuff, why not just stay in the terminal. and, well, i have deep feelings for nano.
deep.
so now when you run that, you will most likely see nano open up and an empty document will be there waiting for your patterns to add to the svn:ignore property (try * for cache to ignore the symfony cache).
save that bad boy (oh, comeon, nano is easy. its like norton utilities from the 80s).
deep.
presto. bob’s your uggle.
updated my listing today. wow was that out of date. wonder how many jobs that cost me.
The list of development firms and developers for hire has grown dramatically too. I remember when it was just me dwhittle, dave dash and a handful of others.
it’s great to see symfony mature into a widely used framework.
makes me feel like writing some code to celebrate. ‘cept i was felling trees all yesterday and it hurts to lift my arms. maybe tomorrow.
trying to take some of my down time and play with (or learn, whatever) doctrine and the sfDoctrine plugin. everything went well for the whole till i had to setup eclipse for yaml files and had to monkey around a bit tracking down some tabs that were inserted instead of spaces. whatever. it’s okay.
eclipse ptd is not so bad. it’s not my favorite ide and when i get used to it i may even like it but..
so on to my next issue which was getting the cli doctrine commands working which i ultimately gave up on because i’m not interested in rolling my own php compile. really.
conceptually speaking the issue is the cli uses the version of php that came with the mac, which isn’t compiled with pdo_mysql support (which enables it to talk to the database) so i monkeyed around trying to get it to run off the php that came with MAMP only to have a bunch of errors i didn’t have energy or interest search for fixes for so i rolled it back and just created the tables myself.
sure, i can’t load fixtures but it does get annoying spending all your time configuring, installing, changing, learning architecture rather than actually learning the tool, or using the tool to develop web apps. this exceedingly is the case lately and i’m really tired of spending the spare cycles i have on things that are only indirectly related to what i’m trying to do.
i continue to be unimpressed by the rough edges that seem to surround our industry.
