Ferry Boender
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Templum v0.2.0: Simple PHP Templating
I just released v0.2.0 of Templum, a simple templating engine for PHP. About From the homepage: Templum is an extremely lightweight, simple yet powerful and fast templating engine for PHP. It re-uses the power of PHP itself for rendering templates, but provides additional features making it easier to write templating code. Rendering templates using Templum […]
Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice
Talks Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice: Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz’s estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.
Ubuntu sucks!
I used to be real pleased with Ubuntu, because it got a couple of things right that Debian didn’t. But I’ve upgraded my Ubuntu install three times now, and every time I upgraded everything broke. The last time I upgraded, everything even remotely having anything to do with sound broke. This was because the geniuses […]
Performance optimization: The first thing to do
In the last couple of years, I’ve done a lot of performance optimization. I’ve optimized raw C, Python and PHP code. I’ve optimized databases: tweaked settings, memory usage, caches, SQL code, the query analyzer, hardware and indexes. I’ve optimized templates for disk I/O, compilation and rendering. I’ve optimize various caches and all kinds of other […]
How Democracy works…
Here’s a good example of how democracy works: NASA Christens Space Station Treadmill ‘COLBERT’.
MySQL WEEK() function weirdness
The other day I had to gather some statistics from a database, and the statistics needed to be grouped and filtered by weeknumbers. I ran into something a bit unexpected. Let’s say we have the follow table definition: CREATE TABLE test ( start DATETIME NOT NULL ); We insert the following dates for testing purposes: […]
Easy PEAR Package creation
Here’s a fairly simple way of creating PEAR package so you can distribute your application or library as a PEAR package. Premise. Let’s assume you’ve written an application or library called ‘MyApp’. The following is a possible directory structure layout: myapp/ |- MyApp.php \- MyAap/ \- MyApp/MyLib.php Install the PackageFileManager. Since writing a package file […]
Templum: Simple PHP Templating
At the company I work for (ZX), we needed a simple yet powerful templating language for PHP. I googled around a bit for something, but we couldn’t really find anything. So I wrote Templum, and ZX was kind enough to allow me to release it as Open Source under the MIT License. From the Templum […]
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