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Goodbye CakePHP

Posted by jesse on Mar 14th, 2010 in CakePHP, News, Rails, Ruby, Technology | 3 comments

It’s been a long journey and it has finally come to an end. Due to professional changes in my life, it is time that I stop using a PHP based MVC framework for web applications. Where will I go, you ask? Its simple – Ruby on Rails! While the aim of this post is to not convert people who use CakePHP to start using something else, I do plan on elaborating some of my reasonings for this switch.

1. My New Job
It cannot make much more sense than this. I recently got a new job (started Feb 1st). The place I work is a pure ruby shop and support several financial based web applications. I had 10 days to learn the syntax/basics of Ruby and loved every minute of it. I was ready for something new and fresh in my life.

2. Maturity
Rails was first! As a result, the project has matured more and seems to have a lot more support.

3. Package / Plugin management
Ruby has RubyGems, which is amazing. CakePHP just released something to handle plugins, but I have a feeling it is not a full package manager (think apt!).

4. Other Little Differences
Several small differences make it a better choice. I found a recent presentation that quickly explains a few of them.

That being said, PHP with CakePHP and Ruby with Rails both have their pros and cons. Each framework will always have its place in my heart. Hopefully I will have time soon to setup a rails environment and start pushing through some personal projects! Until then, I will continue gaining experience at work whilst I triage the problems that I was hired to fix

Publish to WordPress from Droid

Posted by jesse on Jan 19th, 2010 in Software | 2 comments

Download wpToGo from the market!

Lucky Star – Winter 2006

Posted by jesse on Dec 4th, 2009 in Music | 2 comments

When I was in college I used to write electronic music remixes and some original tracks. None of them were ever really that great but I had a lot of fun nonetheless. In Winter of 2006 my good friend Robert approached me with another movie idea. Robert, myself, and a group of friends had been making movies for fun over the past couple years and we always had a blast making them. He wanted to do a music video but we didn’t know any bands or musicians that we could make a music video for. We then picked a random track that had previously written – a remix of some vocals that I found online somewhere (nothing popular). Joe, one of the two bodyguards in the video, added some of the videos from the DVD that we produced. I also found the original trailer that I put on YouTube many years ago. I hope you enjoy them. It was quite nostalgic for me

We used a James Bond theme because a lot of us were huge James Bond fans. Robert made magic happen with a budget (as usual) and I put a lot of time and money into a home made switch board to set off the ricochets during the shooting seen. I think both Adam, Doug, and I all suffered from our fair share of electric shocks that occurred during the whole process. Some of the sound seems a bit delayed in the YouTube videos (not sure why).

The Trailer