- My Name is Tom, or Errant. I write about geeky things, politics, and life in general and politic. My current day job is in computer security but I have been known to program in my spare time.
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Xtags: A preview
A quick note before bed! I’ve been working on my Xpress module for Kohana (Xsetting,Xtheme,Xgrid,Xtags,Xtools and more); tonight I put together Xtags, which is a tag parsing system. The intention is to support all sorts of text formatting: from full … Continue reading
Long live PHP (and all that jazz)
I was reading some of the latest stuff on Sam Clarks blog the other day and this post stuck out at me. He was talking (in the latter part of the posting) about a Rails vs. PHP comparison he saw … Continue reading
Xsettings: Database settings manager for Kohana
I started work today on Xsettings for Kohana PHP framework. I like the Kohana config method (in terms of file layout) but I always like to have the option to store settings in a database as well. My reasoning behind … Continue reading
Traffic!
Heh, it seems my little appreciation of Kohana vs Code Igniter went down quite well yesterday. Thanks to all the guys who commented on it. Dlib made some cool comments in an excellent post on the Learn Kohana blog. It’s … Continue reading
Framework Comparision (PHP): CI vs K2
6 months ago I had no idea what a PHP framework was, I had been programming in PHP for over 3 years but had not yet come across the idea of MVC. I was first introduced (by a friend) to … Continue reading
CI Demo: Extending a simple auth system
I’ve been working from home today, which was something of a novelty! No one was in the office so I’ve been working on a website design at home (sort of a secondary project there). For most of the websites (including … Continue reading
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Secrets!
I was thinking today… is it breaking the official secrets act to talk about signing the official secrets act. Anyone remember fight club? This isn’t just a random thought; I did have to sign it today for my new job … Continue reading
No Appreciation: Take 1
I was hungover yesterday – which is always a good time for me to come up with shit. The thinking is this: as a programmer I know we get a really bad deal compared to “designers”. Take the web as … Continue reading