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 get uploaded will be stored in the database itself as a nice central location for all my different variants to get the data from.

As far as the initial setup goes, I’ve managed to get PostgreSQL installed, running, and I’ve even created the necessary tables for all that I need.  Yeah, that part was pretty simple.  But I can’t say it happened without learning something.  I’ve noticed that something I took for granted with MySQL wasn’t available right away for my installation of PostgreSQL. (more…)

Using my shiny new upgraded Ubuntu 9.04, I’ve gotten around to installing PostgreSQL.

Note: this is not a tutorial.

The installation was simple, as are most installations with Ubuntu. The initial “get going” was a bit odd for PostgreSQL though. The one thing you have to remember when initially trying to get things going is this… (more…)

As part of my previous post, “things to do this summer,” I’ve decided on a not so clever appraoch to proving to myself that “it’s just a language.”

What do I mean by, “it’s just a language?”  Well, let me tell you. On a regular basis I get asked “do you now [language]?” And my answer is usually something along the lines of “Well, I know of it, I’ve touched it a bit, but never done anything real with it.”  But, since I’m a programmer I usually follow it with “It’s just a language.”  So now I’m going to prove to myself that it is in fact “just a language.”

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Quick Update: this apparently only works with Zend Studio for Eclipse. Sorry for any confusion if you’re trying to figure out where the f$#@ those dialogs are.

All of my projects reside in an SVN repository and now they’re starting to get accessed by multiple users.  Typically with eclipse, I would just have a project that contained externally required libraries – such as the Zend Framework – but now the location of this is required to be more flexible.

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Zend Framework 1.7.5 was released just a short while ago.  While there’s not much with regards to features, there’s an interesting update to the view renderer and local file injection attacks.

I’m guilty of using this style of inclusion in some cases.  Sometimes it’s just easier. I guess it’s time to re-think how I do what I do in these very few and rare cases.  No more ‘../’ in my render statements!

Thanks to Zend Framework In Action for the quick update.