A Path Less Taken

I’ve been doing more programming than blogging and that’s a good thing. I decided to take a brief time out and share some links to a few PHP Micro Frameworks. Micro Frameworks (as far as I can tell) are like regular frameworks, only they are smaller. They try to provide fewer features, but provide them really well. I have not tired any of these yet, but I list them here for your reference and mine.

The Front Controller design pattern is very useful in building scalable and maintainable web sites. I am building a proof of concept application and I need a good reference. As usual I searched the web and found some references on the pattern. Of particular interest were two that focused on implementing the pattern in PHP (the language I was using for my POC). I listed them here in the event they might be of help to you.

I’m old enough to know better. I’m experienced enough to know better. I’m just bright enough to know better. Nonetheless I found myself making the same programming mistakes again this week. I decided that my penance would be to blog about my miss-steps in the hope that you and a future me can learn from my mistakes.

Piwik is out (for now) and AWStats is in. The decision was not as clear cut as I would have hoped, but given my situation I think it’s for the best. Nothing against Piwik. I just have some limitations that make it a less than appealing option.

I’ve been working on a new application and I wanted to do URL re-writing in LightTPD. I was having trouble coming up with a regular expression (regex) that worked. If found some references that were pretty helpful and that allowed me to accomplish what I wanted. I’m listing them here in the hopes they might be helpful to you.