Yesterday I headed off with Beth and Josh down the Leeds & Liverpool Canal (and the River Douglas) and we took a load of pictures with our SLRs. I’m sticking all mine up on Flickr (I think Beth will be doing that too) and they’re already looking rather good. Looking forward to doing it again sometime (:
I can safely say that Criterion seem to be the only part of EA that I can tolerate, the rest resorting to shoddy DLC practices! However a lot of Criterion’s DLC for Burnout Paradise has actually been free, and the paid-for downloadable content they released has actually been worth it for the most parts. Burnout Paradise has been a game I’ve thoroughly enjoyed playing over the last year and a half, but I’m actually quite ashamed to say I haven’t fully completed it (:
However, the most anticipated DLC for the game has long been the Island. In fact, it was one of the first pieces of DLC to be announced, albeit the last to be released. On Friday they released a trailer which looks immense, and also gave us the release date of June 9th 11th!
Are there any games due for release soon which could be worth buying? (either console) Last game I bought was Saints Row 2 about a month and a half ago, but that is a fantastic game nevertheless.
Update: Got the release date wrong. It is actually June 11th (not the 9th). Apologies! (:
I’m probably a bit behind the times here, but it seems as if spam on Twitter is becoming quite a big problem. I was looking through the trending topics’ tweets and found a few tweets with links that appeared genuine – using redirection services such as bit.ly. To my surprise, when I clicked on them, I was redirected to some spammy sites selling me pyramid schemes.
Other than the manual process of blocking accounts which post spam, what other measures can Twitter do to prevent it? It is obviously is a rather big problem.
It’s over a month since I last wrote on my blog, but to be perfectly honest I don’t have a clue what to write about. Ideas are welcome (:
I’ve known PHP for a good couple of years now (about 3 I think). I’ve built (and scrapped) many PHP scripts I have written along the way, and the code in it has been rather un-maintainable. Gradually, I’ve moved onto splitting my code logic from my html, using templates to change layouts and I even went as far as to create my own database abstraction class, well what I could put together anyway.
But the code is still confusing to look at when I come to modify something or add a feature somewhere, so I decided to take a look at frameworks. There are tons out there… Cake, CodeIgnighter, Symfony and Zend, and I’ve tried Cake to no avail in the past, so which one would be right for me?
On some good advice I’m going to give Zend Framework a try. After all, it’s kind of made by the people who made PHP itself, so I don’t think I can go far wrong. The other plus to it is that you can pick and choose between the components you want, and the components you don’t, and it seems pretty straightforward that you can implement your own components too. (I’ve yet to work out how to do this!)
I think I’ll see how it goes, I’m hoping I get the hang of it because using a framework will help me keep my code easy to maintain in the future, but I still want the level of control over my code as I do when coding my own stuff at the moment.