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Should I SourceForge?

So much for my decisive statement last week with regards to expanding my blogging repertoire – I’m still clearly php-centric!
On occasion, I’ve wondered if there would be any benefit in dumping myphpcms onto SourceForge. Obviously there would be an increase in exposure, and I would open the door for collaboration, but at the moment, I’m [...]

A new direction?

I’m starting to feel as though I need a new sense of direction. While sharing PHP tips and tricks is certainly up my alley, I’m feeling as though I have a one-track mind. My significant other reminded me today that I still haven’t gotten around on my newly defined goal to learn Flex. Unless I [...]

Instant Forms with Application Super Arrays

If you have built an application using a super array, it is exceedinly simple to add new forms into an application. Into my main cms.php file located in admin, I have a section of the file which reads:

$module_dir = “faqs”;
$item = “FAQ”;
$item_plural = “FAQs”;
$id_name = “faq_id”;
$this_tbl = $tbl_faqs;

$order_by = $APP_CONFIG[$this_tbl]["question"]["field_name"];
$table_headers = array(”Question”,”Ordering”,”Display”,”Edit”,”Delete”);
$field_names = array(
$APP_CONFIG[$this_tbl]["question"]["field_name"],
$APP_CONFIG[$this_tbl]["ordering"]["field_name"],
$APP_CONFIG[$this_tbl]["display"]["field_name"]
);
break;

Then, contained [...]

New Years, New Goals, New Dreams

I don’t believe in New Years resolutions; I believe in goals and dreams. The turning of the year is the time when most people make their resolutions, and as such, it is a wonderful time for me to evaluate my goals.
2008 was fantastic. I loved and lost, and loved again. I traveled and studied, I [...]

Holiday Cheer

This holiday season was different than seasons past. It was fabulously different – challenging, inspirational, filled with love and cheer, thought-provoking. For the first holiday season of my life, I didn’t eat turkey and only missed it in the slightest. Granted, I certainly gorged on many of my (non-meat) favourites (although it resulted in something [...]

foo bar baz quux

… and the list of metasyntactic variables goes on…
I’ve been working in IT for over a decade now. I’ve been a casual government worker, an open-source linux chick who was laid off during Ottawa’s dot-bomb, a hard-core php developer, a project manager, and an entrepreneurial contractor. With a certain amount of chagrin, I will shamefully [...]