So this is not going to come as much of a shock to people experienced with CakePHP, but I’m just learning now and liking what I’m seeing. CakePHP 1.3 has a really nice set of conventions to work against and provides a seemingly pretty good scaffold for most typical webapps, so I’m thinking I’ll be [...]

Posted on May 30th, 2010 by herbcso
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So I wanted to write about my woes with PHP ZendDebugger and the latest WAMP install. Bottom line: I can’t get it to work with PHP 5.3 yet. I believe this is an incompatibility in the debugger DLLs that I have been able to find for 5.3 – looks like the linkers used are incompatible [...]

Posted on April 6th, 2010 by herbcso
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So I wanted to look up a Big Bang Theory episode yesterday and I noticed that Google found quite a number of pages referencing it. As a result, I got curious how many results each of the episodes would return. A few lines of Perl code later, here is the result. (click the image to [...]

Posted on October 4th, 2009 by herbcso
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Alright, so while the to Zend or not to Zend question is still under debate, I’m also looking at some AJAX-y goodness. There are several I’m looking at. Now, please do keep in mind that this is my personal preference only and does not reflect a wider standard. These are my opinions related to what [...]

Posted on April 25th, 2008 by herbcso
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I am currently evaluating whether to use the Zend framework in the development of the site. Any suggestions/feedback/practical experience sharing welcome. I don’t want to get myself tied down to a large, cumbersome and potentially inflexible framework (which Zend at least claims not to be, but not having used it yet, I’m not so sure).

Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by herbcso
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Welcome to the new trackmypop.com. This site will allow you to enter information on how many sodas you have consumed. The idea will be to provide charts, usage data, a forum to discuss consumption habits, etc. I personally am addicted to Diet Mountain Dew and thought that if I was to track my usage, I [...]

Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by herbcso
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