Work has given us some what 10% days… like Google’s 20% days, but more work focused endeavours. So, today, I spent most of my time, trying to show off the virtues of Symfony Framework for certain parts of a work product, over using Zend.
My analogy is this, you have to paint a big wall, and you are given a single paint brush (Zend framework). Why use a paint brush when a paint roller or a spray gun (Symfony) would be a much better alternative. I’m not saying you can’t use the paint brush at all. Use the paint brush for the corners. Get the bulk of it done with the paint roller. Alternatively, tape the walls, floor, and ceiling, and spray everything. The choice should be use the best tools for the job.
In the end, people looking at the wall will not care how the wall is painted. However, if you’re a customer looking at paying someone to paint it… the customer will care. Said customer is looking at the quality of the workmanship, how much it will cost / the bottom line, and how long will it take? All of which leads to the choice of using better tools.
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Loving your job and only wanting to do only ones best
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Facebook, one external blog feed. BOO!!!
title says it all. What’s going on?!? Why facebook do you limit my creative freedom to express myself in multiple outlets?!?
okay… so this all got started from another website… www.botchedcode.com it’s super geek. I know it, but it keeps me entertained, and hopefully other programmers/nerds/geeks whatever. It’s completely computer programming related, but that’s my career. -
My current extension list for firefox 3.0.1
- Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.1.3
Synchronizes Adblock with Filterset.G - Adblock Plus 0.7.5.5
Ads were yesterday! - Better Gmail 2 0.6.1
Enhances Gmail with a compilation of user scripts and styles. All scripts copyright their original authors. Click on the script homepage in the Help tab for more information. - Canadian English Dictionary 1.1.1
Canadian English (en-CA) spellchecking dictionary - Delicious Bookmarks 2.0.104
Access your bookmarks wherever you go and keep them organized no matter how many you have. - Download Statusbar 0.9.6.3
View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar - Firebug 1.2.1
Web Development Evolved. - Google Gears 0.4.15.0
These are the gears that power the tubes! 🙂 - Greasemonkey 0.8.20080609.0
A User Script Manager for Firefox - Stylish 0.5.7
Customise the look of websites and of the user interface. - Tab Mix Plus 0.3.7pre.080721
Tab browsing with an added boost. - Tiny Menu 1.4.9
Replace the standard menu bar with a tiny menu popup. - Web Developer 1.1.6
Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools. - YSlow 0.9.5b2
Make your pages faster with Yahoo!’s performance lint tool.
- Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.1.3
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introduction to http://ping.fm
I was off to lunch with a few co-works, and Stephen Evans told me about http://ping.fm. I never heard of it, so I went back to my desk after lunch, and found it.
synopsis: ping.fm updates all status updates for a bunch of places:- Linkedin (I don’t know where status msgs are placed…)
- this blog (via plugin)
- various others places… (see ping.fm)
Updates can be sent from a phone, gtalk, http://ping.fm, email, bunch of methods…
so, now I can update one place, and microblog to all the usual spots. MSN WLM bot doesn’t work… -
putty passwordless login
If you found this, you know what you’re looking for
- goto http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
- download puttyGen
- run it, with ssh-2 RSA
- click generate
- leave key passphrase blank.
- yeah save both the private and public keys for future use.
- at the top of the app, there’s a “OpenSSH authorized_keys” text window, copy and paste the information into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys as one line. (You’ll need to shell into the box first).
Start putty
- enter the ip/host address
- enter a session name.
- in the menu tree goto: connection->data enter your auto-login name
- in the menu tree goto: connection->ssh->auth click browse and select the private key you saved from the above section.
- in the menu tree goto: session click save
- test, by clicking open.
Enjoy.
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Ricola vs Cepacol review
Completely pointless to most people, unless they’re really looking for a review on something…
My throat was sore from since Saturday, and today’s Monday. I’ve been taking “Cepalcol Sore Throat” to try and numb the soreness that was on the back of my tongue, down my throat, and only to one side… weird.
To the point, cepacol just numbed my tongue, lessened the throat/tongue soreness.
“Ricola Lemon-Mint”, took one and wham… soreness went away… it was soothed. Maybe I was just already getting better, but Ricola definitely made my throat feel a lot better.
Cepacol:- Taste: 5/10, wouldn’t eat it as a candy.
- Effectiveness: 7/10, just numbed my tongue, but did give some relief
- Overall: 6/10
Recola:
- Taste: 8/10, I like lemon and mint combination. I could eat it as a candy… but does have a little medicine taste to it, so that’s where the 2 got knocked off.
- Effectiveness: 10/10, can’t notice the soreness as I’m typing this.
- Overall: 9/10
Disclaimers:
- I’m not a doctor, this is not medical advice.
- I’m not partnered with the manufacturers of Cepacol, or Ricola
- Trademarks below to their respective owners.
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Extreme Fitness hours (2007)
Normal hours:
Monday to Friday: 5am – 12am
Saturday to Sunday: 8am – 8pm
Dec 24th, 5am – 6pm
Dec 25th, closed
Dec 31st, 5am – 6pm
Jan 1st, 2008, 8am to 8pm