Technology

PowerEdge 1900 Unboxing

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I was woken up this morning at some ungodly hour by a lost delivery man from Dell. We move into our new offices in 1 week time and so I was having all the new equipment delivered to my […]

18May2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

Social networking experiment using Technorati API

I have today finished a mini-project that I started after having a minor brainwave. I had seen a lot of blogs recently being used to swap favorites, most notably of which was the experiment by DOSH DOSH. This required its users to add Dosh to their favorites, then post a comment saying they had done […]

27Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 10 comments | Continued

Ultimate desktop display?

I found this while stumbling around. Its a ‘CineMassive MasterPlex 30D‘ It contains a 30″ Ultra-Premium Center Panel and 5 x 20.1″ Wings. Now how on earth do you feed it? Two graphics cards with two outputs each still would not cut it. But more to the point, you would need a bigger desk.

22Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 1 comment | Continued

Open source Scaling Ruby on Rails vs PHP

There has been a lot of talk in the blogsphere about scaling. Most of this have been caused by an interview with Alex Payne where he discusses the problems they have had with scaling up twitter. After reading it you really get the sense that Rails does not currently have any hard/fast answers to the […]

19Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 12 comments | Continued

Why you need a Zend Framework ACL and Cache GUI

I have been digging further into the Zend Framework and although they are not too version 1.0 yet it still feels pretty mature. I have been working on a admin interface for the ACL (Access Control List) and the cache mechanisms they supply.
The ACL is initially confusing and overly complicated especially when you are […]

18Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 6 comments | Continued

Listing roles in Zend Framework ACL

I have been working on a interface to allow me to edit Zend Framework’s ACL. The main problem was that currently there are no ways to get the list of roles out of it. To add the functionality at the moment you have to patch one framework file (not nice) and sub-class the Zend_Acl class. […]

18Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued
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