Tag Archives: Programming

Programming for fun when you’re a programmer

The excellent Stack Overflow developer forum site (brough to you by Joel Spolksy amongst others) is chock full of highly technical questions such as:

Why Does This Pointer-Pointer Initialization Seg Fault?
Query Strings & Mod ReWrite
How many constructors should a class have?

But some of the questions are a little more philosophical. And here’s one that’s troubled me [...]

“Why I hate Criteria”

Nicking the title from the previous post, oh and the sentiment. I don’t hate Criteria**, it is actually quite good, however watching the video in the previous post reminded me of a few issues we have had in the office where we have complained about it or just got plain confused…
I know Dan, for [...]

Finding propel objects

In the White October office we use a programing framework called Symfony for some of our projects. It provides us with well erm a framework to develop our web applications, it gives us a standard way of dealing with web requests, keeping our code in a standard set of folders and lots of handy tools [...]