FernyB

When ever I use the Zend Framework and I want to use the mvc components I always need to create the structure, though it can be a bit of a pain I have wrote a script to speed up that process. The script I wrote will create the mvc framework for you. It downloads a copy of it and uncompresses it. Check it out. on DZone

My Pownce t-shirt has arrived

While I read post by post about FriendFeed I try to ignore it until today, it got me, So I signed up and you know what? friendfeed sucks, I don’t get it… Everyone is raving about it, it just seems to be everywhere you read. It just seems like a jaiku clone with some extensions. So case in point I have an account with friendfeed and there is no point to friendfeed nothing new, nothing original, & nothing creative. It almost seems like friendfeed could be a feature in a social network then it would make better sense.. 

It has been a long time that since I last did some serious skateboarding, maybe too long. I still continue to skateboard just not that serious about it as some of my friends are. They have taken it to the next level. Take a look at this video of a friend I used to go skateboard with when I was in High School. It’s a cool video.

Here is a PHP Snippet I wrote. It’s a cool trick to for calling multiple methods in a much simpler way. Inspired by Ruby’s ActiveRecord.

<?php

interface Member {
	function login($username, $password);
	function update($status);
}

class Base implements Member {
	public function login($username, $password) {
		echo "You will be logged in as: {$username} with Password: {$password}\n";
	}

	public function update($status) {
		echo "Your New Status Message is: {$status}\n";
	}

	public function __call($method, array $argv) {
		if(preg_match('/^do_*/i', $method)) {
			foreach(explode("_and_", substr($method, 3)) as $k => $v) {
				$param = array();
				foreach($argv[$k] as $value) { $param[] = "'{$value}'"; }
				$param = join(", ", $param);
				$code = '$this->'. $v ."({$param});";
				eval($code);
			}
		}
	}
}

class User extends Base {

	public function say_hello($message) {
		echo "Message: {$message} \n";
	}
}

$usr =& new User();

$usr->do_login_and_update(array("username", "password"), array("Hello World"));
# Prints the following:
# You will be logged in as: username with Password: password
# Your New Status Message is: Hello World
#

$usr->do_login_and_say_hello(array("username", "password"), array("Hi how are you?"));
# Prints the following:
# You will be logged in as: username with Password: password
# Message: Hi how are you?
#

$usr->do_login_and_update_and_say_hello(array("username", "password"), array("Hello World"), array("Hi how are you?"));
# Prints the following:
# You will be logged in as: username with Password: password
# Your New Status Message is: Hello World
# Message: Hi how are you?
#

?>

Meta Programming is code that writes code. See the code sample below.
I have made a screencast of this process. View it here

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

class Product
  def initialize(items)
    items.each {|item| Product.product(item) }
  end

  def self.product(item)
    code = %Q{
      def add_#{item}(item)
        @#{item} = [] unless @#{item}
        @#{item} << item
      end

      def display_#{item}s
        @#{item}.each {|item| puts item }
      end
    }
    class_eval(code)
  end
end

class Item < Product
  def initialize(*items)
    super(items)
  end
end

cart = Item.new(:book, :computer, :music)
cart.add_book(:Ruby) # => Add a book to our cart items

cart.display_books # => We want to display All books we have added
puts "\n"

cart.add_computer(:Apple)
cart.add_computer(:Dell)
cart.add_computer(:Sony)
cart.display_computers # => Display All Computers
puts "\n"

cart.add_music(’Modest Mouse‘)
cart.add_music(’Northstar‘)
cart.display_musics # => Display All Music Items

New Feature out now. Add your last.fm friends radio stations and playlist.

In the series premiere, Sarah Connor struggles to keep her son John Connor safe from an enemy Terminator from the future.

A must watch show on hulu.com. It’s cool!

New Feature for LastBridge.net - I have added a small list of station you can now select.

Of course more new features are planned ahead.

It is official LastBridge.net is out for public consumption! Again for those who are lost and don’t know what this “LastBridge” is it’s for listening to your last.fm radio stream on the Roku SoundBridge.I have made a screencast on How To use LastBridge. If anyone still needs help or just want to leave your opinions on this project, leave a comment or two. Thanks.Enjoy!

www.LastBridge.net

What? What is this? Well, yeah… it is another project of mine. I call it LastBridge, like the name? its original… anyways.. So LastBridge is a web app for users of the Roku SoundBridge like myself. Basically you can listen to your last.fm music on the SoundBridge without having to install anything or hosting any files. I previously wrote the same thing in a much cheaper less good looking way, in PHP. This time I have rewritten it using Ruby On Rails. As soon as I release it make sure to check it out.

In Ruby a switch statement looks like this

say = "Hello"

case say
when "Hello" then
	puts "Say Hello"
when "Bye" then
	puts "Say Bye"
end

In PHP a switch statement looks like this

I have written a MySpace Status Updater class in Ruby. So if you want it take it, download it, use it.Download Here Or Download the RubyGem 

How do you use it?

credentials = {:username => ”, :password => ”, :status => %q(Okay Now I am really Done!…)}

@status = MySpace.update_status(credentials) 

Wow, you don’t see rants like this every day. Zed Shaw, who created Mongrel, a library and web server that just about everyone uses to serve rails applications, is basically a God in the Rails community. In a post today called “Rails Is A Ghetto” he tears into a number of leading Rails developers, the community in general, and a number of startups (and Google).via Techcrunch