Blog Posts

  • Sustainability

    This post doesn’t really have anything to do with technology, but it’s something about which I have become increasingly aware. I’ve lived in and around New York for basically my whole life and I know the city is full of excesses – in apartments, fashion, food, technology. Recently, though, the one that’s begun to grate […]

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  • More on CakePHP event listening

    Since my last foray into events in CakePHP, I’ve made a bit more headway into events. Here’s my report.

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  • PHP Frameworks: FuelPHP

    In the last few days I’ve been messing with FuelPHP, a relatively new PHP framework. It’s written by a bunch of guys who used to work on CodeIgniter, and while it shows a lot of promise, right now I don’t quite think it’s ready for large projects. For reference, this writeup is for Fuel 1.2, […]

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  • CakePHP event listening

    Recently I’ve been working on a new site for a large corporation. I’m building it in CakePHP, which is a bit of a far cry from the Zend and Symfony work that I’ve been doing as of late. Overall it’s been a pretty positive experience, save for the few quirks that come with using Cake. […]

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  • On Windows git clients

    Basically all the work I do these days is managed with git. It’s been at least a year since I’ve dealt with Subversion, and really, there’s no going back. Git just makes everything easier. At work we only use Macs, and there are a handful of pretty good GUIs for git. For awhile I used […]

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