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Still wading through tough waters

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Just to fill you in - this blog is by no means dead, I just haven’t had the time to write up new updates, especially now that I’ve given my notice of resignation. Had a few major disputes with management, but I should get things straightened out within a week or two. In the meantime, I’ve […]

Poll results are in

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

Well, not a very good turnout, but still, here are the results: Proof of concept - 50% Work in progress - 25% Advanced topics - 25% And yes, sadly, those numbers are accurate. And yes, they do add up exactly. And yes, 4 of you voted. But it does give me a slight hint about what to write […]

Switching Wordpress themes

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

Sorry for the constant back-and-forth switching between Wordpress themes, but it seems that whenever I find a suitable theme that has a variable width for displaying long lines of code, it invariantly breaks one of the plugins or Google Analytics acts up. In any case, don’t worry, all the content’s still there.

A quick update

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Well, until I’ve resolved some issues regarding the code highlighting plugin, I’ve decided to present you with a quick poll on just what topics I should tackle on this blog. Whether it be Symfony specifics, like manipulating requests and responses, internals and other whatnots or just writing about cool new ways on how to use Symfony, […]

Markdown-compatible code highlight

Friday, January 12th, 2007

Finally found a plugin that’s made to work with Markdown in WordPress - link. Just have to wait for the admins to install the thing. UPDATE: Seems there’s a problem with the included PEAR class package - Text/Highlighter, which is used for code highlighting, is an old version and written for PHP4, and if you […]

Working on code listings

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

Well, it’s seems there’s no way around the double html entity escaping in WordPress MU with Markdown Extra, which makes posting any kind of code containing HTML entities a nightmare. I’m looking for a solution to get around this weird behaviour, but I’m stumped as to just what to do. In the meantime, I’ll be posting […]

Making your life easier with Factory design patterns

Friday, January 5th, 2007

This time round, I’d like to share a quick tip to those that may not be aware of how to simplify common tasks, such as fetching a specific group of entries within a table.