sometimes mac's piss me off
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.