Obama Yoink

maniacalrage:

Obama raised $150 million in September and has raised over $600 million to date in his campaign. Part of me really wants Obama to just suddenly yell, “Yoink!” and run off the stage somewhere and never come back. Then a few months later we hear he’s in the south of Spain laying around on a big yacht and Joe Biden is there too just hanging out playing checkers and a reporter asks Obama what he thinks he’s doing and he just sighs and says, “Okay, seriously, $600 million dollars and a yacht in Spain, or I could be the President of an ungrateful, backward-moving, bigoted country for four years? I CHOOSE YACHT.”

That would be kinda awesome…

Zend Framework Cache

So at work I am already using the Zend Framework for my main project. I’m mostly leading the development and design of the project, but my team seems pretty into the framework so far. So point for me on choosing it as our starting point I suppose. Lately though, I have been finding myself more and more annoyed with it.

Don’t get me wrong, the code is great. They are pretty clever with their session management and their MVC approach is pretty clean, but lately the lackluster documentation is killing me. It usually isn’t enough to visit their site or run PHPDocumentor, you have to play with and maybe even dissect the LIB to figure out what your boundaries are. The time wasted is killing me here.

And for whatever reason, Zend_Cache is pretty annoying. It isn’t nearly as robust as most of the rest of the LIB, and writes its files with scores of hyphens; those hyphens seem to be the bane of my development environment here. If I hardcode a file name in for a cache file, everything is fine…if I leave it as it was, the page takes over a minute to load and doesn’t even finish writing the cache file.

I’m half tempted to rewrite pieces of the file, but it goes against my own rules in regards to editing the Zend LIB and who has the time really? The hyphens being used as delimeters in the file names aren’t even in a VAR, they are strings appended when needed ($root = $someVar . ‘—-’ . $crap . ‘—-‘;).

Marco responded to my last post saying they (Tumblr and Davidville) use mostly a homebrew framework…I think that is pretty much the same direction I’ll be moving in.

PHP Framework?

I’ve been spending a little time tonight white-boarding out some ideas and Apps I will be working on shortly on the side; both alone and with some other developers.

During my planning tonight, I started to think about the first few bits of code and started wondering…do I use the great Zend Framework I have been using at my day job, or do I start my own? The benefit of Zend is it is done already and very tight. Doing my own will keep the code base much smaller and more focused on what I need from it though.

Regardless, I love working on these types of things. Like when I was writing plugins and all sorts of crazy shit for Wordpress while I was with Dow Jones. I wonder if the Tumblr guys are using a framework or if it is all home brew.

Downer

rockuboff:

it’s 4am and i am sitting up with the most excruciating pain on the right side of my back and chest. i can’t tell if its muscular or skeletal. it hurts when i breathe deep, turn my neck, sit up straight and lay down. i think it stiffened up a lot when i went to bed. what is going on? :( 

Not to be a downer; but if it feels like the pain is going from your chest to your back, it sounds like when my wife needed to have her gallbladder removed…

Doctors kept telling her it was just severe heartburn…heartburn may have been there, but it was because her gallbladder was full of stones.

Or you just pulled something :P

if (IE == Retarded) {

Really IE? Now you’re correcting my markup? Seriously, YOU are adding