My ‘summer project‘ has now been demoted to just a ‘random project.’ Although I still intend on finishing it at some point, it’s clearly become far too delayed to call it a summer project anymore. I got overly distracted throughout the summer by family, fun, non-fun, and other projects. Projects that I’ll explain a bit [...]
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All I Need is REST, Vimeo, Flickr, Zend and More
Here’s my skeleton for my magical REST interface. It’s still missing a lot of method calls for Flickr and Vimeo, but the guts are there and the remaining methods will be done in priority when I need them. Right now it supports automatic caching and logging via simple options. At some point I’ll probably put [...]
Feeling Up Django: First Impressions From a PHP Guy
As I whipped through the tutorial on getting started with Django I made some mental notes on things I thought were interesting and things I thought weren’t so interesting. I have a feeling I’ll be saying similar things about Ruby on Rails…
PHP Java Bridge vs. Zend Platform Java Bridge
A long time ago I posted some instructions on installing PHP/Java Bridge on Ubuntu and that post is getting quite a few reads, so I figured I’d post a follow up on how it was used. Over the last year I had been using a Java Bridge from a Zend Framework application to access a [...]
Summer Project: Initial Setup and more Details
I’m still chugging along with the common elements on the project. So, for the basics of what I have decided to do: Yep, it’s an image gallery. It’s not too exciting and definitely nothing original. There’ll be a basic authentication system (login/logout) with web based uploading and tagging. That’s pretty much it. The images that [...]

