- 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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Tag Archives: Kohana
Announcing Modular
Modular is my new Kohana module designed to help you manage your other modules! Version 1.0 allows you to track installed and loaded modules and load/unload them with a single click. The list of loaded modules is stored in the … Continue reading
Kohana Minify Update 1.5 Beta
Just a short note to mention a new beta release of v1.5 of the Kohana Minify module. This new release has the following mix of changes: BUGFIX: Support for dots in file names (e.g. jquery-1.4.2.js) FEATURE: Supports groups of files … Continue reading
KTwitter: Kohana, Twitter, Oauth
This is just a small announcement of the first release of KTwitter; a Twitter library for Kohana. I know there is an excellent Twitter library already but it makes use of the old username/password method – which Twitter now discourages. … Continue reading
New Kohana Module: Minify
Introducting Minify. It’s just a simple wrapper around jsmin and cssmin to turn it into a Kohana Library. The library handles the minification, setting the correct headers and Gzipping the output for smaller files (based on the rules set out … Continue reading
Handling multiple Kohana Installs P1
I use Kohana exclusively for pretty much all of my websites (the ones I dont are simply static pages). Since I posted a critique of the PHP framework last year I’ve got more and more addicted to it. Simply for … Continue reading
RTFM
My lesson for today – dont spend 20 minds telling your PC that it is wrong and you are right. RTFM. http://docs.kohanaphp.com/helpers/url#site does not do the same thing as http://docs.kohanaphp.com/helpers/html#anchor This fact has caused me a lot of frustration. Andnow … Continue reading
Xtags demo!
A quick Xtags demo has been released! The current (very buggy) version supports Markdown, BBcode, Geshi and smileys parsing. The smileys look pretty cool! Geshi was very hard to integrate – and I am still not happy with it. Once … Continue reading
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
My Degree
Apparently I passed: which is a shock because I fully expected not to (long story). For those who are remotely interested I got a 2:2, Beng (hons) in Electronic and Embedded Systems Engineering. I’m SO glad it’s out of the … 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