Off the TODO List: “Xdebug—Debugger and Profiler Tool for PHP” and others
The “Xdebug—Debugger and Profiler Tool for PHP” is deferred based on the assumption that NetBeans will get more aggressive about building kinder and gentler debugging support for PHP. Maybe “Debugging techniques for PHP programmers” had something for me back in 2005. Probably not…
CodeIgniter Videos
Out of general purpose respect for a Tiffany B. Brown experiment, I thought I would view the introductory videos to CodeIgniter. My randomness follows:
- With CodeIgniter MVC, you are not required to use
.htaccessout the box—like with the Zend Framework. - I noticed a “scaffolding” folder in the first video—which looks like more Ruby on Rails parody. CodeIgniter scaffolding is explained in the second video and goes beyond what data tools are available by default in the Zend Framework.
- Like the Zend Framework CodeIgniter is heavy on the V and C in MVC but very light on the Model. Both of these frameworks have cute data “helpers” but nothing like a Java/Hibernate or .NET/LINQ dude would expect. I consider this a limitation of PHP.My current theory is that the PHP model, the “data layer” should be another PHP application that emits XML or JSON—or anything else for the client. Knowing full well that a huge application like flickr.com runs on PHP, I would not want to write a bunch of “business logic” or “business rules” in PHP. My preference is that PHP calls out to a decoupled service with that stuff in it.
“Asdoc ant task”
Christophe Herreman looks like nice guy in “Asdoc ant task”—and I’m sure his JAR file is cool—but I’m not that strong with Ant and I have yet to write comments for my tiny amount of ActionScript 3 code.
“Combined Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta”
My desire to download “Combined Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta” (formerly “ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview”) is just an indicator of me actually anticipating something from Microsoft. Scott Guthrie does it again. But I can’t mess about with Beta code on this scale right about now. This whining of mine is almost a follow-up to “Another Item Off the TODO list: Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta.”
“Beginning Power Shell Guide”
This looks abandoned: “Beginning Power Shell Guide.” With the nascent Power Shell, the risk is just too high to get caught reading something that is out of date.
dotFX
This is a “Java and JavaFX client technology.” Ideally, I would not even have to go looking for stuff like this. One should run into that “killer app” that happens to be based on this technology.
VisioExportToXAML
Naw… maybe later…
“Live Mesh Screencasts & Videos”
This one leads to more Silverlight beta stuff—so we can’t see the videos without Silverlight—the beta of Silverlight. I talked about this wonderful viral marketing campaign in “Unable to install Silverlight.”
“Upgrading Ubuntu from Edgy to Feisty (6.10 to 7.04)”
This is off my list not just because I am extremely concerned that that VMware 5.x does not support Ubuntu 7.04 (I looked this up at vmware.com) but this howtogeek.com quote is not very inspiring: “Note: If you are upgrading from Dapper (6.06) to Feisty, you will probably want to upgrade from Dapper to Edgy, and then from Edgy to Feisty.” My VM is running 6.06.