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Codeigniter and Zend Framework Simple thoughts

January 2, 2012, 12:55 am (1 Month, 3 Days, 20 Hours, 9 Minutes Ago) . posted by Matthew Craig

Ok, the question which framework is not fair.  It is like asking what is better a hammer or a drill.  Well it depends on what you are trying to do. I have been studying the Zend Framework for the last few days, and I'm trying to brush up on it and get familiar with it, as my work is considering moving to a set of web apps that is integrated with Zend Framework.   As a progamer who likes small simple and "targeted" programs Zend Framework seems like such overkill....

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Shell Scripting in PHP

November 23, 2011, 12:00 am (2 Months, 1 Week, 6 Days, 11 Hours, 4 Minutes Ago) . posted by Matthew Craig

Shell Scripting in PHP Since I originally learned PHP (back when it was version 3) I always knew that you could enter an interactive mode of PHP, and even call php via the command line.  I never thought about it, as a web developer I rarely needed it (except a few odd cron jobs).  But recently I have come across some tasks that involved a lot of relatively complex and not so straight forward actions that were very difficult to accomplish via BASH.  (Yes it could be done......

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Back on Track

November 20, 2011, 8:24 pm (2 Months, 2 Weeks, 1 Day, 14 Hours, 40 Minutes Ago) . posted by Matthew Craig

For those of you who keep up with me, I am no longer working as an independant contractor.  I have taken a full time position with an established firm, and am very thrilled to be part of a team.  I will continue to develop and grow this website as I have time, but I will no longer be talking contract offers.  And my portfolio will shift more to personal projects that I would like to invest my time in becoming more of a semi-professional blog and technological playground. I have several...

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Vim takes the cake

September 6, 2011, 5:41 pm (4 Months, 4 Weeks, 1 Day, 22 Hours, 23 Minutes Ago) . posted by Matthew Craig

Ok, those of you who follow my website know that I am continually trying new IDE's and technologies to try to be better and more efficient at what I do.  Several months ago I decided I would give VIM a try.  I have used VIM exclusively for 3 projects (now working on my fourth).  And I got annoyed at VIM because I'm a horrible typist and accidentally hit the wrong keys some times, so I decided I'd give eclipse another go around. I installed, configured and started using...

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Authorization For Codeigniter

July 26, 2011, 9:44 am (6 Months, 1 Week, 4 Days, 10 Hours, 20 Minutes Ago) . posted by Matthew Craig

User Authentication I have easily spent months of my career writing user authentication systems/classes for PHP.  And even quite a few for codeigniter.  They are always a pain, and are always complicated.  They require the most attention to detail and security.  I have found (what I think) is a moderately well written user authentication class called "tank_auth", it is fairly complicated, but it needs to be to do what it does.  I will have to do a review of...

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