20070122 PHP will never have a (real) Rails-like framework

I know the title is harsh but it’s so true. At least it is according to nowadays php’s implementation of classes and objects, which do not permit to “reopen” and add or redefine new methods to an existing class definition, which is the basis upon Rails (and I presume lots more of applications and frameworks) [...]

20061113 Beware of cakephp’s requestAction!

We decided to start using database sessions instead of the usual php storage method, just to check if that would fix the extremely annoying problem of cakephp completely ignoring the maximum session time settings (no matter what setting did it have, it always logs out people after 20 minutes). So seems that it worked, people [...]

20061030 cakephpbb

So there goes the cakephp + phpbb integration – just committed the files to Subversion and uploaded a tgz package for the lazy ones, some hours ago. And I don’t know if there’s expectation about the project or maybe it’s just a malfunction in the stats system, but somehow it was one of the most [...]

20061029 Load avg: 0.95

It’s been a very busy week and it doesn’t seem to go down, but surprisingly for most people, I quite like the feeling of being busy, since it doesn’t allow you to spend the time procrastinating and thinking about the divine wonders of the Things That I Would Do If… Among other things, past week [...]

20060806 Wrong location of mysql.sock?

I was trying to run bake script (for cakephp!) and it started complaining about not finding /var/mysql/mysql.sock – but why this path? I already had problems with mysql socket and ruby on rails. In that time, I was using xampp for apache, php and mysql, so the mysql socket was inside xampp folder and I [...]