RoR’s failure?

I think this is the first ever blog post that “sort of” says that Ruby on Rails isn’t working. Well, you won’t come across this kind of post often so I just link it here for future reference:
7 reasons I switched back to PHP.
Point 2, I guess is the biggest hurdle for my company to [...]

why php is weird…

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIMyep, go figure that one out..

phpThumb

Annoying!!! Spent few hours figuring out why the phpThumb works fine on our local server and my home, but when the site gets uploaded to the live website (www.epicstone.com.au under project) the thumb didn’t work properly. Had to spent last 30 mins rushing to revert the thumbs back to using S3’s thumb, which I need [...]

XML, XSLT, XPath, but how???

Is there a framework out there using PHP that somehow mimic the way of Java using XML for the data and then XSLT for the layout.. err was it Java?There’s got to be a way to improve our framework, make it more robust but at the same time easier and clearer for people to use [...]

Site makeover: Drupal and new layout

I decided to give drupal a go for redesigning felixt.org. I am not sure how easy/hard it is to get it up and ruing. And lastly not sure whether or not I will lose interest in this redesigning process in few weeks or so. Another note, I’m a bit dissapointed to find out that my [...]

Smarty PHP

Templating is one of the ways to ease the organisation of a website. Smarty is a template engine built in PHP, I am interested in trying it out sometimes.. I wonder when would this blog be discovered by people.. Not yet ready for real audience (people who know me in real life.. hehe).

Mysql support in PHP

After wasting half an hour trying to figure out why my PHP files don’t work for coecting to MySQL in my computer (while they work in webserver), I finally found out that my PHP doesn’t have the MySQL support enabled. Which I found a bit weird, I thought it was turned on by default (I [...]