Latest 5 Mini Blog Entries
PHP OOP
Category: Web Development
In the past I’ve struggled to see the benefit of using an Object Orientated Programming approach. To me it always seemed more complex than using procedural functions, especially when all the problems I faced could be solved using functions.
Now that I’ve started to study towards PHP certification, I have to understand OOP whether I want to or not! Like most people who are not very familiar with OOP, understanding the concepts can be quite intimidating. My approach has been to try to understand why I should use OOP and to find a couple of tutorials that would introduce me to the basics.
This tutorial does a good job of explaining the benefits and shows how
classes can be used to create multiple instances of an object:
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/rod19990601.php3
I also found this tutorial a good way of following it up:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2005/07/28/oo_php.html
I think this area of the Zend syllabus is definitely going to be the most challenging for me. Now all I have to do is understand the advanced methods behind OOP...
Category: Web Development
Date published: 13/05/2008
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Wubi installer for Ubuntu
Category: Computing
Ubuntu 8.04, aka Hardy Heron, has a cool Windows installer called Wubi that lets you install the Linux operating system in Windows. In other words, you boot up Windows and install Ubuntu just as you would any other program. When you next reboot, you are given the choice to start Windows or Ubuntu. You have been able to run Linux from a bootable CD for some time and that is great for users wanting to try Linux without wiping their Windows install but Wubi has the benefit of allowing you to run both side by side. To remove Ubuntu, you just boot back into Windows and uninstall it like you would any other program.
Under the bonnet, Wubi modifies the Windows boot.ini file to add a line that points to a virtual hard disk file that contains the Linux installation. Admittedly, performance is better if Ubuntu is installed outside of Windows but this is still a great way of using Linux if you are not sure about removing Windows completely. I have used VMWare a lot to run more than one operating system and whilst this great for testing purposes, its not so good if you want two operating systems for real life uses. I also run Fedora Core as a dual boot system with XP (each OS is installed on a different hard disk) but compared to setting that up, Wubi is as simple as it could ever be.
Get it: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
Category: Computing
Date published: 07/05/2008
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The new site is live
Category: General
Welcome to the latest re-design of my site.
The previous version of the site was proving too time consuming for me to maintain, with a blog and a video blog as well as countless pages, so I have gone for the less is more approach this time.
Content wise, the site has been reduced and this ’mini-blog’ replaces my full blown web log. Hopefully, a smaller blog will encourage me to post more frequently because feeling as if I had to write long posts regularly put me off updating the last one.
The site has undergone a transformation visually too. The sparse layout with dominant white space has been replaced with something a little more energetic and vibrant.
There are still some rough edges that I need to smooth out but at least it is live!
Category: General
Date published: 06/05/2008
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