All blog posts from December 2011

Lithium Filters - What's the Point?

Posted December 29, 2011

I've used Lithium for 2 projects now, and I have one major issue - I honestly don't see the benefit of "filters" vs. "callback" methods.

I understand that conceptually it's supposed to "decouple" the filter logic from the model itself. However, every example of applying filters to Models show the fi…

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Posted in Programming
Tagged as php, lithium, li3, aop, and filters

No-Win on Browser Support

Posted December 22, 2011

Once again in my life, this beast rears his ugly head. The scenario: customer and employer want HTML5 site (complete with animations, CSS3, gradients, rounded-borders, the whole shtick) - BUT, they want it to work in ancient browsers.

I'm getting so sick of this. 

Oh - and did I forget to mention t…

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Posted in Programming
Tagged as ie, browser, support, and cross-browser

PHP Lithium

Posted December 16, 2011

Over the last week, I've been working in the PHP framework Lithium. I've actually been enjoying it.

I tried going via Zend, Symfony and CakePHP first, but found them either too fragmented (Symfony), quirky (hate the implicit connection CakePHP makes between controllers and models), or just weren't e…

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Posted in Programming
Tagged as lithium, lithify.me, php, frameworks, and mvc

Latest Netflix Update on Wii

Posted December 3, 2011

Has anyone else noticed that the recent Netflix update for the Wii feels like a real mess?

Here's what I've noticed - both good and bad:

  • larger thumbnails in the menu
  • "just for kids" menu
  • Wii crashes (needs hard restart)
  • slower loading
  • forward/backward  thumbnails don't seem to load
  • seems to lose …

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Posted in Science & Tech
Tagged as wii, netflix, and update

NetSyndication.com now live

Posted December 3, 2011

After slogging (and procrastinating) for what feels like forever (but really just a little under a year), NetSyndication.com is finally live.

It's only "alpha" grade at the moment, but it shows what's coming and what the overall direction is going to be.

Everyone's welcome to open accounts and give …

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Posted in Programming
Tagged as syndication, facebook, twitter, orkut, google, craigslist, kijiji, usedvictoria, and usedeverywhere
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