Help us!!!
Welp, I paid my idiot tax today (read lottery). Jackpot for today is 86 million, hell I would be happy with the 5 number payout of 250 thousand.
Tom Cruise, who art in Florida (or wherever they congregate), electrified be thy e-meter, please giveth us our five numbers and power ball, Amen.
These are not the droids you are looking for! Spike is running some of the Star War movies.
So far, I’m a bit impressed. Though I normally don’t work with PHP frameworks (other than getting my feet wet with Zend) as I prefer to write all of the grunt code myself, I was excited to learn more.
I’m reading a book on version 1.7 given to me by a buddy and former co-worker written by Jose Argudo Blanco and David Upton. It’s written at a decent pace as I’m at chapter 5 and I feel how CodeIgniter rolls!
What has really impressed my so far is Active Record. Though I do understand it’s a design pattern and other frameworks have it to (like CakePHP, ha ha cake) the author(s) did mention that CI implements it differently.
I think the reason I like CI implementation of Active record is that it is a well written and more robust version of a database class I was working on at my former job. At the time, this class was meant to simplify an application I was responsible for that needed a major rewrite. Had I more time to work and refactor it, it probably would have mirrored CI’s Active Record in it’s awesomeness!
I also like how they have implemented MVC (so far from what I have read). I’ve played with Zend’s MVC, though not really a difficult concept to grasp, it was hard to come back to it after months of a siesta. If I recall, Google AppEngine (it’s pretty slick if you haven’t used it) has similarity with how Zend rolls, I can remember how to add a route in CI though I haven’t even done it yet.
Looks like I’m really trying to sell CodeIgniter eh? As much as I do like it so far, there is one thing I do not like but it’s understandable why it is. CI is written ala PHP 4 style and syntax. It’s just a minor irritation to me as I grew up (as a web developer…and still am thanks to SS) with PHP 5. PHP 4 is still widely used, probably mostly in an enterprise environment as change is hard and I understand the need for a unified environment. It’s what made CodeIgniter well, CodeIgniter.
We’ll see how it goes as I will be writing my entire main site with CI, mainly to learn it but also as I feel it’s a good choice to go. I will also be implementing CI in my URL shortner application I wrote not too long ago (check back to see how it goes) but it was only written as a concept and lacks successful feature as pagination and user related function (a basic user authentication system)
-End Devo
What are the odds?? Three, count that… one, two, THREE laptops die!
First the wife’s dies, understandable as the cpu fan dies sometime ago and it was nearly five years old. I convinced her to buy a netbook (of course not the one I suggested!). A day before that, I resurrected my old Alienware that had a cooling problem but I think I remedied the problem.
It dies a day later (Window to be specific), I have to dig around to find my XP disk. I wasn’t worry as I have my SLI laptop.
I haven’t touched the SLI laptop for oh about a month after I got it back from Alienware for a repair (I believe in warranties now!!). The screen wouldn’t come up so I figured it was stuck in external monitor mode (though I do remember not using it as I had Backtrack3 on it).
I finally get it to snap out of it’s coma, move on with life and setup this site, read some more on CodeIgniter and go to bed. I was excited to get to work when alas, it is comatose again. I should have bought another year on service!!
Oh well, as underpowered as it is, the wife will have to learn to share her netbook. I think my next laptop (after I get the SLI repaired…. again) will be a netbook.
While we were browsing locally, I discovered that Acer has a dual core Celeron that looks pretty decent.
Tom Cruise, if you are real and can hear my, please don’t let my SLI machine die!! It’s not it’s time!
-End Rant
I officially has a presence on the interwebs Oh Noes!!
We’ll see if I actually blog!
