Monthly Archives: April 2011
Quick look on Nikon 50mm f1.8G
Written on April 29, 2011 at 8:00 pm, by Travis
After some rumors and bit of confusion, this week Nikon has officially announced a new member of fast lens: The Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm f1.8G. Besides been new, it is hard to to figure out what is better about this Gelded lens, which is considered as a downgrade. Here’s a quick side-by-side on key specifications between Continue Reading »
Changelog: Upgrade WordPress 3.1.1 to 3.1.2
Written on April 27, 2011 at 1:45 pm, by Travis
This is a security update since last WordPress release 3 weeks ago. WordPress 3.1.2 comes with couple of bug fixes and no database changes. Fixes stated are: Fix a vulnerability that allowed Contributor-level users to improperly publish posts. Fix user queries ordered by post count. Fix multiple tag queries. Prevent over-escaping of post titles when Continue Reading »
Kohana Day 4: Basics with View
Written on April 24, 2011 at 10:00 pm, by Travis
In the last Kohana tutorial, we learn about URL rewriting and using mod_rewrite module to omit /index.php/ from the route addresses. Until now, we have been using PHP variables to store page output, include HTML tags. That isn’t the most elegant way and certainly did not promote code seperation. Using a view file not only seperates HTML Continue Reading »
The Fancy Web #33
Written on April 23, 2011 at 9:00 am, by Travis
This is a biweekly digest on worth reading articles related to anything to do with web technologies.
Kohana Day 3: URL Rewriting
Written on April 22, 2011 at 8:00 pm, by Travis
In the last Kohana tutorial, we start off with understanding of controller and action usage, and then went on with very basic usage. One if your first webpage is http://localhost/kohana/index.php/page/about. The existence of /index.php/ may be bit of an eye sore and many desires for clean URLs, which is one of the given advantage by using an Continue Reading »
Kohana Day 2: Basics with Controller and Action
Written on April 20, 2011 at 10:00 pm, by Travis
In the last Kohana tutorial, we got ourselves started working with a MVC framework by bootstrapping Kohana 3.1.2 and have our very first hello world page. Understand Controllers Controller is the center platform to a developer as this is where you apply logics to your requests. Controller stands between models and the views, passing change requests to model and Continue Reading »
Kohana Day 1: Installation and Hello World
Written on April 18, 2011 at 8:00 pm, by Travis
So you decide to join the whole MVC hype that is currently happening throughout different language landscapes: This is a good move, you will get to learn why people believe using framework(s) not only makes you code faster, but also become a better software developer. Although tutorials are targeted toward beginners and you don’t not Continue Reading »
Kohana Day 0: Ready to Go
Written on April 16, 2011 at 10:00 pm, by Travis
This will be a starting point of a new tutorial series on Kohana MVC frameworks. I will do a walk through on varies sections and will divided to several parts rather than rush through the entire framework in one go. The example code will be incremental continuous building a web project for as long as I can handle. I will Continue Reading »
The Fancy Web #32
Written on April 9, 2011 at 9:10 am, by Travis
This is a biweekly digest on worth reading articles related to anything to do with web technologies.
Not Another PHP MVC Frameworks Comparison
Written on April 9, 2011 at 2:04 am, by Travis
In this article I will talk about factors I look at when picking a PHP MVC framework. Having little time to go through user guide in-depth, there are couple of statistical value that may help you decide a framework to start from.