ruzz on symfony

around the web: nhl.com email updates.

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:13:58 -0400

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.

twhirl hurts me by confusing my twitter world, obsfucating the...

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:53:00 -0400

twhirl hurts me by confusing my twitter world, obsfucating the identities of my twitter friends by not properly showing me the user icons.

FAIL.

update: an update (manual, wheres my freaking updater poking me) to 0.7.5 from 0.7.3 and i have sexolicious twhirl again. let that be a lesson to ya.

jquery style chaining of propel query criteria. sexy. find out...

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:02:10 -0400

jquery style chaining of propel query criteria.

sexy.

find out more.

eclipse

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:15:38 -0400

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.

"@ruzz: (svn) —ignore-externals is your friend ;)"

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:43:04 -0400

“@ruzz: (svn) —ignore-externals is your friend ;)”

- dave dash via twitter.

symfony 1.1 beta 2 is out.

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:36:00 -0400

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"

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:52:44 -0400

“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.

osx svn propedit

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:06:54 -0400

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.

symfony job listings on trac

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:55:39 -0400

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.

sometimes mac's piss me off

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:27:00 -0400

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.

osx leopard, MAMP & symfony

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:03:00 -0400

word to the wise, for those of you looking to install symfony and have it work in any meaningful way you mostly want MAMP v1.7 not, i repeat, not 1.7.1

there is some funky shit happening with php 5.2.5 and symfony

see how i said coupled.

anyways. you want php 5.2.3 which comes in MAMP 1.7.

because the guys who make the mamp website are tools.. here is a direct link to the download.

you’re entirely welcome.

update: not sure how i missed this, but a more detailed explanation of why they aren’t getting along can be found over at symfoniac.

osx leopard local domains

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:08:34 -0400

adding some domains for development:

sudo nano /private/etc/hosts

follow the existing format:

127.0.0.1 dev.myproject
127.0.0.1 prod.myproject

and so on.

ps. i’m not sure where the old app went that provided us a nice gui, and i don’t even recall the name (damn you quicksilver) because i just hit ctrl-space and typed net into quicksilver, then picked the icon i knew would get the job done. man. sometimes you gotta wonder. is it easier to remember the path, or the url..

"the only reason web apps have been making ground against desktop apps in recent years is because..."

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:43:52 -0400

“the only reason web apps have been making ground against desktop apps in recent years is because desktop app makers have been thoroughly unimaginative on nearly all fronts.”

- ruzz

Stevey's Blog Rants: Code's Worst Enemy

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 23:07:04 -0500

Stevey's Blog Rants: Code's Worst Enemy

why god why

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:10:52 -0500

ruzz: lord, why for art thou no api for amazon own'd imdb?
lord: hrm. that is weird. I was sure i covered that on day 4.
ruzz: can you help?
lord: i have no pull with bezos, and you know i kinda have my own workload too...
ruzz: as if you couldnt' just toss a jquery scraper out in 5 seconds...
lord: my son died on the cross for your sins and you want me to write your damned code for you too?
ruzz: er..
lord: i thought so. word out.

SERIOUS IE7 bug

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:55:01 -0500

SERIOUS IE7 bug:

a bug in IE7 when showing divs that were hidden at page load.. it’s a real issue, i just had to work in an ugly hack to the project i’m on.

god. i hate ie.

if you use sfWebBrowser

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:05:00 -0500

more specifically the sfCurlAdaptor.. I logged a bug tonight regarding it.

The gist of the problem is when the adaptor goes to build an http query string to put into the header it embeds ‘& amp;’ (forgive the space, tumblr.. sigh) rather than &.

this gives you some interesting results back from REST APIs like, say, tumblr’s—which just kept telling me i had a bad username or password.

this was a tricky one to figure out. I had to route curl (by setting curl proxy options) to port 8888 where i had fiddler listening, then passing it on. So I could compare the working POST and the broken POST to see what was different.

once i established that it was tough to say if this is a symfony bug, or sfCurlAdaptor bug, or a config expectation (issue).

in the end, i think that sfCurlAdaptor should be able to test, and recover from bad or not set ini values so I think the issue lies there and I logged it thus. Will anyone else agree? who knows.

anyways, the short term hack would be to either set your ini file arg_separator.output=’&’ or go on into sfCurlAdaptor and change:

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($parameters));

to:

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($parameters, ”, ‘&’));

and you should be good to go.

Using JSON to Exchange Data | BetterExplained

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:33:14 -0500

Using JSON to Exchange Data | BetterExplained: plain english for those of you still getting up to speed on json.

"Every web application—every website—is a service."

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:42:38 -0500

“Every web application—every website—is a service.”

- RESTful Web Services / Leonard Richardson + Sam Ruby

reading now: Restful Web Services: Leonard Richardson

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:40:44 -0500

reading now: Restful Web Services: Leonard Richardson:

just started it, and page one was killer.

no really.