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Returning from Meherabad – Baba’s Face

admin — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:31:45 +0000

One remarkable thing I wanted to share from my trip to India is that I was walking around the Meher Pilgrim Retreat taking random pictures of things and I really liked the way the light was coming through one of the stained glass pieces there. Anyway, as soon as I framed the colors that were shining through the glass onto the stone floor, I noticed Baba’s face in the view finder, clear as day. So, I snapped the picture, but keep in mind that I only saw the face as I was framing the colors in the camera’s viewfinder. Not that it makes a difference – see if you can see it as well in the 2nd picture.

Stained Glass at MPR

Meher Baba's Face Upper Right

Fluent Interfaces

admin — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:19:34 +0000

I’m starting to get a little better at identifying fluent interfaces. This is a programming technique where you can chain method calls together, and it reduces redundant code. Some claim that it is easier to read, but I think that the old way may be a little easier for me at this point, until I get used to this method of calling class methods.

Here’s an example:

$passwordFilter->addFilter(new Zend_Filter_HtmlEntities())
->addFilter(new Zend_Filter_StripTags());

Meher Baba Photo

admin — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:32:37 +0000

Something about this photograph of Meher Baba struck me, so I wanted to share it. To me, Baba is absolutely glowing and radient, despite the fact that the photograph is black and white. Le me know what you think.

Ice Man

admin — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:41:43 +0000

You never think about these things when you’re plugging in your hair dryer.

Digging MVC

admin — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:59:45 +0000

Right now I’m getting into learning some MVC development techniques. I got turned onto MVC by an exciting new project in the ecommerce realm called Magento (no not as in mag-neto, but ma-gento). I thought it was mag-neto at first and tried typing that into the address bar to get to their site, but was redirected – looks like I’m not the only one that is slightly dislexic…

Anyway, they’ve got a neat new shopping cart developed (right now in beta) in php5 and built off the Zend Framework. So, I started looking at how the implementation was structured and found that it didn’t fit the traditional mold. First, there was only one index file and a .htaccess file with some code I had never used or seen before. So, I dug a little further and found that the structure is based upon the Zend Framework and MVC archetecture / approach.

If I were a betting person and really, I do suck at gambling or playing cards - i’d say that this type of approach, especially as we get into Web 2.0 a little further will be the certain path that we must take as developers. I’ve been all over the Zend site and they are doing some amazing things with Ajax and web services.. Check out some of the feed articles on this blog from the zend site. Especially this one.

Charles

Blackberry Strips Emails

admin — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:38:12 +0000

I’m finding out that blackberry only allows Emails in MIME type encoding. I’ve been working with a client who has had some recent issues in getting copies of orders forwarded to his blackberry. There’s very little out there on this issue that I can find, so I thought I would document it here for anyone with the same problem. Hopefully, I will be able to update this with a solution.