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What was I doing all this time?

It passed a lot of time since I written something on this blog. The reason was that I wanted to replaced it with yet another custom blog built with some other cool new framework I happend to learn. Time passed by and I dod not have time to make that new shiny blog. I now decided I would upgrade this blog with the rails 2.x as soon as possible. That will be hopefully after Christmas. Before that I can’t do nothing. I just have to much work to do.

If you are curious here is the list of frameworks I tried:

1. Django (excellent framework, done my university graduation thesis using it)
2. CakePHP (it is PHP but it is a nice framework. I also done a twitter component for it check it out here)
3. Symfony (nice framework, very configurable, has an admin generator)
4. Zend (it has some really great components Zend_Search_Lucene to name one but it never clicked for me)
5. Merb (just poked at it but I’m a pythonic in nature so I don’t like to many options – I like the saying “There should be one and preferably only one obvious way to do it”)

So after evaluating all these and some other frameworks beside these (erlyweb – erlang web framework) I came to the conclusion that I actually like rails because of it opinionated nature. This is the same reason I like Django. Django is pluggable with applications as rails is with plugins but both frameworks are opinionated about their core. For example Django uses its own ORM tool instead off SQLAlchemy, it also uses its own routing system instead of Routes or some other solution. The same is with rails. And that is the thing I like about both of these frameworks. And that is why I will stick with rails and upgrade this custom blog to rails 2.x as soon as possible. Rails and django will remain mine first choices for new web projects.

For backend stuff like servers, or web services I am leaning towards Erlang but I still have to learn it properly. I did not written anything with it for now. But I know I will think of some interesting project for me to use it for.

That all for now.

Enjoy!

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Painting the appartment, developing a new blog app for the site

I’m in the middle of painting the walls of my kitchen at home and at the same time I’m working on a new blog app for this site. Because I’m now on a shared host the new blog app will be php based.I will use CakePHP. I also registered on Twitter and my page is http://twitter.com/imunitic. You will also be able to see my twitts on the new blog when I deploy it. Comments on the new blog will be managed by DISQUS. The about me sidebar on the new blog uses hCard micro format.

Now back to the painting part. It was really a fun job painting the kitchen in the middle of the night not knowing how will the color you just mixed look tomorrow morning when the sun hits the walls :) When I and my girlfriend woke up this morning and looked at the kitchen walls we were happy. The color is orange and we like it how it looks.

I think this will be my last blog entry using the old system. I still have to come up with a way of importing the old blog posts into the new system. For the comments (which are not very numerous) I already decided that I won’t import them into the new system.

That is it for now.

Enjoy!

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Moved to webfaction

As of today my blog is now hosted on webfaction. I did this because I recently bought an apartment and now I don’t have enough finances for a 38$ 512MB VPS :(. But I hope this is just temporary.

Still webfaction is an excellent shared hosting. You get a shell account and the control panel is awesome. Django, Rails, WordPress, Trac, Subversion, Zope, Plone, TurboGears setups are just a few clicks away for just 9.5$ a month.

Enjoy!

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Life & Erlang

This past month or two I was preoccupied with collecting necessary documents to raise a loan at the bank to buy a flat. I’m planning to go live with my girlfriend/future wife in a small town called Solin near Split (Croatia). So all my free time was spent collecting those documents . I only need to get one more document and then I’m going to the bank for that loan.

I haven’t had much time to program anything in my free time. I am reading “Programming Erlang” very slowly though, half a chapter every 3 to 5 days. I must say I’m enjoying it, and I already have some ideas about projects. One idea would be to develop a ejabberd module which integrates with trac. The integration would mean a developer could add, edit, list tickets, attach files to tickets and comment on tickets using his or hers IM client.

To enable this integration the IM client would need to know how to use it so I’m planning to write a pidgin plugin also. For now ejabberd and trac will need to live on the same machine because I intend to write a simple port program in python using trac API.

If you have any useful comments please do comment :)

Enjoy!

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Cageball injury

Yesterday I played cageball and was injured. A player of the oposite side kicked my leg instead of the ball. I managed to finish the game but today when I visited the hospital because my foot was swelling I was suprised to find out I broke my toe and the little finger.

So today at 27 years old I got my first casts.

Not cool :(

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Work, work, work and some more work

I haven't bloged for almost three weeks now. That's because I've had some deadlines at work.

I've programmed in plain asp, C# done some SQL data imports and exports and had to resist the temptation to "send" our clients in some very nice places :).

This Friday is Call of Duty 1.51 time. At the firm we are reestablishing the so called "COD" Friday. The "COD" Friday is just training for what is coming on Saturday. On Saturday is paintball day. Real fighting, not virtual one.  See you in the trenches :)

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