mac's weekly disposables..

A long time ago and recently, I held 2 techtalks at our office..
One is about `optimizing PHP' and the other is about `mysql 5.1 / 6.0 - some changes'

Optimizing PHP Apps: Download here

Mysql 5.1 / 6.0: Download here

wheee.. i'm not alone..

http://blog.libssh2.org/index.php?/archives/97-Have-I-mentioned-I-hate-Javascript.html

my boss explained me: when you stick your head between others asses, then it is scrum.

Now we can really celebrate. After a long time of work, we were finally able to release v.1.0.0 of Okapi (Which is our preferred framework).
Why another PHP framework you might ask.. A pure sign of the `not invented here' syndrome :)
Why is it better than other frameworks? It's pretty darn fast! And it lets the developer hack a lot of stuff on his own - which, I've been told, is the intended way in PHP :)
And it's still a framework! Not like some other frameworks which are just one big include to get stuff like A() B() C() D() E() and the like..
We actually tend to keep the core very simple and small and try to support as many custom extensions as we can, to keep extensions which are not as documented and tested as we want them to out of okapi. But since we can't do everything on our own, it's actually very simple to include PEAR and ZendFW code into your Okapi application/project.

Find okapi here: okapi.liip.ch
Find the buzz here: blog.liip.ch

And I really want to personally thank Patrice for keeping his flock of sheep (us) together and to make us write documentation and tests! (Actually, documentation required a lot of his effort!) Thanks a lot!

I don't want to write a lot, but since everybody thinks that I hate GUIs.. This is not the case! While it's generally true, that I hate a specific GUI, I don't hate the concept of a GUI. (That means I like eyecandy, even if this might come as a complete shock now!)
The thing I hate about Flash GUIs and JavaScript GUIs and the like is, that they are friggin slow. In the console, everything reacts fast and responds quickly. When I click around in flash, everything gets blurry and the like. This is just hampdydampdy stuff.. For example: I really love to make GUIs on the iPhone because everything is fast and very quick in responding. I think this has to do with the languages they are made in.. I just hate that javascript/flash quirkmode stuff where everything tends to be overengineered today. (This does not contradict the fact, that there are cool JavaScript/Flash UIs out there) There are situations in which it is nice to have JavaScript.. (of course!) Like when you want to customize your Dashboard or do ClientSide input checking or doing collapsable/expandable folder-trees and the like. But please stop when it gets barely usable on a Mac Pro! :)
And this is why I hate to make such GUIs - they just don't scale and I just don't like doing something which makes something else slow just to get some blithering marketing idiot to talk about it.

marc@yoda:/Volumes/hdb1/Work/okapi-core> svn up
At revision 10000.