Kohana 3.0.8 is out.
My very favouritest PHP framework just released a new version yesterday. Unfortunately, I was under the weather at the time, so you get to hear about it now, while I’m backing up a site. There’s nothing too major this...
A few more days with Komodo IDE 6.0.0 RC1
First off, I think I should be a little more clear on something: It sounds like I’m really down on the latest version of Komodo, and to a certain degree, I am. I got cut off from some features I think are critical for an...
Komodo IDE 6.0.0 RC1 Review
This was originally going to be a beta3 review, as I downloaded that on the eighth, but apparently I missed the beta3 release for SO LONG that ActiveState released RC1 on the ninth. How the heck did that slip by me? I was...
Initial Impressions of Komodo 6.0 Beta 2
Okay, honestly? I haven’t used it much, because of two pretty major issues that are blocking me: Can’t have multiple projects open at once In Komodo Edit 5.x, your “Projects” pane can have a bunch of...
Kohana 3.0.7 is here!
Earlier today, I was informed via Twitter that Kohana 3.0.7 had been released. “Great,” I thought. “Time to figure out what’s broken.” See, one of the strengths of Kohana is that the maintainers are...
Stupid(ly Useful) Kohana 3 Tricks – Safely Extending Base Classes
(Note: This post assumes a fairly high knowledge of how Kohana 3 works already. For a good tutorial, start here.) Kohana 3 has a very neat structure that allows you to safely extend its base classes, adding functionality to...
The Naked Else – How I Hate Thee
I cannot express my frustration at seeing code like this: if (isset($modifier)) { // Do some things. // And some more things. // Still more // things // to be done here. // There's a whole lot of things here! // Last bunch of...
Super-useful Komodo Plugins
Komodo Edit is Awesome and has Plugins Komodo Edit is awesome and you should all use it. Seriously. I don’t know how much more I need to go on about this point, but the productivity benefits of a good IDE are astounding,...
Clean Code: Nested conditionals
Ugly code is everywhere. Inside that copy of Microsoft Office 2007, behind that latest Linux kernel, and in the dozens and dozens of web 2.0 MicroISV tools you use day-in and day out. Lurking. But there are those of us who fight!...
New in PHP 5.3
PHP is approaching another important release, version 5.3. The release candidate is already available, if you’re interested in trying things out early. I thought I’d take a moment however, and highlight four really...