Joey Adams Dot Net

If you are a programmer, and utilize all the goodness of OOP, and you have not heard of fluent interfaces, then you have been missing out!

Using them further establishes object relationship, tidies up code, and gives access to a whole array of new uses.

A quick example of fluent interfacing is this

company::getInstance()->selectStore(31)->addEmployee(array('fname'=>'Joey','lname'=>'Adams'));

Get It?

Basically, to achieve fluent interfaces, just return object references in methods. This can be (more…)

OK so I’ll start out by popping off with issues that have not been fixed.

• I am still unable to get full-screen video playback, however mysteriously, some online content does play back in full-screen mode.
• Composite video connections do not work, yet I have not tried resetting the device (an action that requires a menu to finish, I think, which is quite stupid imho).

So I increased the power of my wireless AP, however it is very limited, and quite old, so that is one factor in the horrible performance when using wireless, especially when the device is able to use Wireless N technology. I suspect a newer AP with N technology would perform vastly better. Instead , I replaced the antenna on the device with some high gain ones I had lying around:

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I am a complete advocate of the Zend Framework, it is nothing but good. I will probably post sometime in the near future why I believe it is the best development option out there, but for now we are going to be talking about views.

Views coincide with the framework’s MVC architecture. The view is the presentation, or basically the templates that display the dynamic data manipulated by PHP.

For each Action you have in a controller, you have a view script, which is a phtml file. One solution to creating a uniform site, was on each phtml file, to include header and footers, like this:

<?php echo $this->render('header.phtml'); ?>
<h1><?php echo $this->title; ?></h1>
<?php echo $this->content; ?>
<?php echo $this->render('footer.phtml'); ?>

The problem with this is obvious, redundancy. In case you don’t know, programmers hate redundancy. Once you find yourself repeating code over and over again, in this case, rendering the header and footer, then it is time to create an automated solution. (more…)

Here is my problem. I work overnights, and go to the gym in the evenings so there are shows that I’d like to watch, but I have to always miss. It would be nice to watch them in the morning or the next day when I’m off work, when there is nothing good on anyway.

I’ve always liked the idea of a TiVo, but just one of my beliefs is right of ownership, and the distinction between a product and service. I believe after the initial price of the TiVo box, you should only have to pay service fees if you intend to use an “exclusive” set of features of the TiVo. Things like downloading online movies, access to internet tv or stations, or some of their other online features. However the guide, and recording features should be available without service charges, less you just have an expensive paperweight.

Enter PVR’s, or Personal Video Recorders. (more…)