Monthly Archives: December 2008

Grousing About PHP’s Limitations

Drat. I would like to chase back up the class hierarchy of a bunch objects, and then do something based on the second-from-the-top of that chain. (For example, when the chain goes Word > Noun > Animal > Mammal > Human, and I’ve instantiated a Human, I’d like that object to be able to tell that it’s a Noun.)
Unfortunately, I’m [...]

I’m Getting Tired of Yak-Shaving

It seems like every time I try to get around to actually writing some code, I discover yet another thing that I have to do in order to make that more possible. Today, it was: Get PHPUnit installed on Lórien, so I could run my unit tests locally during development, rather than having to shove [...]

Blog Integration

After a fair bit of hacking, I’ve now got the look of my blog integrated with the rest of my site. This wouldn’t normally have taken so long, except that I also had to deal with being sick and throwing a party. So I haven’t had as much time as I might like to focus [...]

Trying to brush up on PragProg…

Trying to brush up on PragProg’s _Agile Web Dev w/Rails_, but failing my INT rolls due to phlegm.

I’ve been too sick to do anyth…

I’ve been too sick to do anything of use.