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Archive for April, 2007

The Feisty Fawn Upgrade Misadventure

April 26th, 2007

I’ve missed the routine weekly post as I have been trying to “unf**k” my ubuntu installations (home and work) as I colourfully put it to Neil one of my co-workers and resident IT guys. I guess this is more an apology than anything but here’s a brief rundown of what the current status is.

Ubuntu Feisty Fawn is released!

As most (K)Ubuntu fans may know, on April 19, Feisty Fawn was released and after reading many peoples reviews, I thought “awesome! I’m so there downloading the upgrade”. It was easy to upgrade from “Dapper Drake” to “Edgy eft”, then over to “kubuntu”, I thought it would be just as easy to upgrade to “Feisty Fawn”. WRONG!
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Template View and View Helper Design Patterns in PHP (updated v2)

April 18th, 2007

The Template View and View Helper patterns lend themselves nicely when it comes to developing a View Layer solution for PHP, or so I found out with the recent refactoring of Cubix (dubbed Cubix II). This View layer duo is very much a great candidate for a “tag team”. Each component performs a role and together make up a big part of the View Layer.

update: Now includes View Helper Locator example.

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Tags: design patterns php Web Development

Working in a Linux environment: A month on.

April 3rd, 2007

After about a month of playing around with settings and such, I can now confidently say that I am pretty much a linux convert.

I’ve got all the applications I require for development and I’ve got a wicked cool 3d desktop environment in Beryl.

Beryl is an awesome 3d Desktop which utilises X server’s built in AIGLX to provide awesome animation with very little hardware requirements.