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I’ve had a few requests for my Vim settings recently. I might as well share it in a blog post. So here’s my .vimrc.

I have recently started playing with Objective-C and Cocoa. One of the first things that I did was to tell Xcode to use MacVim as my default code editor. In the past, I have mostly been using Vim colour schemes with dark backgrounds. However, I now wanted a colour scheme with a light background. Something [...]

This post started as a comment on Kay’s blog post about Akash Mehta’s post titled “Last we checked, PHP IS a framework”. But my comment veered off-topic. So here we are. Feel free to recurse back and read what they had to say on the subject. I would not call PHP a framework. I tend [...]

Recently I have accumulated a number of bookmarks “to be read later”. Tonight I sat down to read some of them. I revisited CakePHP and I also read a nice article about storing hierarchical data in a database. I first thought about trees vs RDBMSes when we were designing the Bam CMS. Websites are inherently [...]

I am currently evaluating CakePHP, a Rails-like framework for PHP. In the words of the developers: Cake is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC. Our primary goal is to provide a structured framework that enables PHP users at all levels [...]