Josh Duck

Should I or shouldn’t I? Should I ditch my well-worn PHP and the frameworks I know so well to go with this new-fangled (silent-d)Jango thingy I hear the cool kids talking about? It’s a big decision, as this project is going to be the big one (you know, the one that will change the world and all that).

I’ve worked with PHP for over six years. It has it’s warts (and how) but it’s very much a known quantity at this point. On the other hand, when I have used Python it’s been a much more pleasant experience. The fact that this is a personal project makes the decision easier: let’s ditch old mate LAMPhp go with LAMPy. It’s almost dinner time and the latter sounds like it’d go well with an ale anyway. So, starting with a brand new dev box, where do I begin? (more…)

Today I stumbled across an unused working folder in a dark and dusty corner of one of our development servers. The directory had a couple of dozen un-checked in changes. Some were from barely a month ago while others dated back years. Not wanting to discard any important modifirations I cobbled together a bash command to show me when each file was last modified (the file’s mtime). (more…)

I was recently looking for a simple RSS reader for PHP. There are a few out there, like Magpie RSS. These seem like adequate projects, but much too high level for the scripts I was throwing together. I need to read a couple of different feed formats: namely WordPress’ RSS feed and Flickr’s Atom feeds. I decided to put together a single-class implementation which didn’t do anything more than the bare minimum.

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