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Personal attacks are disappointing to see, regardless of if they are aimed at a "big gun" like Tim O'Reilly or someone small like my friend's blog with 50 odd readers. You'd think in this day and age that people could be civil!

I can't help feeling that CMP/O'Reilly set themselves up for this one by not mentioning that they had TM'd the name that they were "talking up" over the last 3 years. Pointing out their trademark to the world via a laywer's letter to a non-profit in another country is hardly the right way to let the world know that you are enforcing this. Especially when they already know about such issues as shown by the Camel licensing page!

Posted in /blog/2006/may/mob-mentality-and-web-2.0.

Wed, 31 May 2006 at 12:20:18: Link

Congratulations Chris!

Posted in /blog/2006/may/omniti-acquires-brain-bulb.

Tue, 16 May 2006 at 13:57:48: Link

Just need someone to confirm that Oblivion runs smoothly and then all I need is a lot of cash!

(btw, the "remember info" checkbox doesn't!)

Posted in /blog/2006/apr/windows-on-mac.

Wed, 05 Apr 2006 at 08:35:59: Link

Arnaud,

That's the problem: you have to remember to use the eprint() function. If you forget and use echo or print or whatever, it all still works; except that you have a possible security issue.

So far this is the only advantage to smarty that I've found. In Smarty you can set it up so that the default display a variable construct of {$var} will automatically escape and if you need a variabled not escaped you have to use {$var|smarty:nodefaults}. I quite like this idea as the simplest way to output a variable is automatically safe.

Posted in /blog/2006/mar/zend-filter-reviewed-on-sitepoint.

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 at 00:17:18: Link

Escaping at the input filter side would be a nightmare.

I'd like to see Zend_View escape by default though so that additional effort was required for the times that you don't want the data escaped, rather than the other way around.

No idea how to do though :)

Posted in /blog/2006/mar/zend-filter-reviewed-on-sitepoint.

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 at 10:52:58: Link

I'd like to see either Zend_InputFilter::isset() or the getXXX functions to accept a default to use if the key isn't in the array.

Posted in /blog/2006/mar/zend-filter-reviewed-on-sitepoint.

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 at 05:11:12: Link

I like it!

It's clear that you are a "writer", if that's what you consider to be "written in haste"! My efforts have taken blood and sweat to do the writing bit - the coding investigation was easy :)

Rob...

Posted in /blog/2006/mar/zend-framework-tutorial.

Tue, 07 Mar 2006 at 15:12:59: Link

Chris, I agree that depending on Zend.php isn't necessarily a problem, especially as it contains the registry. However it does introduce more coupling as you are then forced to keep the basic directory structure so that loadClass() works.

Posted in /blog/2006/mar/zend-framework-preview.

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 at 12:31:26: Link

The acid test will be to see if you can live without Zend.php :)

I might test this evening.

Posted in /blog/2006/mar/zend-framework-preview.

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 at 09:17:15: Link

Nice to see some code :)

The manual is helpful. Note thought that the Zend_Controller is not documented yet. I've had a play and it seems easy enough though. My notes are up on http://www.akrabat.com/2006/03/04/zend-framework-front-controller/ but of course, I might have misunderstood it :)

Posted in /blog/2006/mar/zend-framework-preview.

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 at 06:09:28: Link