Lester's Rants

After a number of false starts I now have a copy of the bitweaver code base which has a namespace setup that works for me, but is probably not 'right' for such services as composer. There is still some work to do and while 'traits' could have been useful, the idea of converting hundreds of possibly single line functions into classes just does not make sense to me. I've ended up with an extension for Smarty5 with all of the functions and modifiers managed through that but I…

I was begining to get flustrated as when I changed things everything stopped working again, but over the last few days which have been broken up with things like a visit to the GWR Festival of Steam on Saturday and a Dolls house show in Churchdown on Sunday. Obviously getting my mind off the software side was the right thing to be doing and this morning I took stock of where I am and things are looking good. The bitweaver framework is fairly stable, and I now have a copy of phpgedview running…

Been a while since I last posted, and while there are lots of things to rant about, the main problem is with my own head and getting around my own prejudices. I never did get into 'namespaces' when they were first introduced to PHP, and even today one of my main third party libraries, ADOdb, still does not have one set, but the other key library, smarty, does and this was causing a little difficulty. In Smarty5 everything has been converted to classes, although I do not see the advant…

What a waste of a day! Yesterday morning I was already to crack on with digging into the remaining problems on the upgrade to the latest versions of the web stack components. Only problem, when adding some limitations to the eclipse 'build path' to reduce it's error list eclipse froze. At first I just thought it was due to the rebuild of the error database, but then it actually crashed. Because I was doing something new I failed to ask myself "What has changed?" and had…

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Thirteen questions and a large amount of repeated dross, but I am getting things under control and more important Mistral is giving me consice 'context' sections to include in the next thread so as to maximize the responces. While I still take much with a pinch of salt, and MUCH of the details is slightly off target, it is good enough to get to the…