Getting Flashy
Submitted by bingomanatee on 17 December, 2009 - 15:50So I have finally made the jump into Flash games. I used flash a long time ago and its really matured since, so I thought I would drop a few notes as I go about things that just aren't really obvious.
Zupal: Drupal for Zend Framework
Submitted by bingomanatee on 22 October, 2009 - 19:08Zupal is my attempt to bring Drupal design philosophy into the Zend Framework. It has also been my attempt to take the "slow road" to learn the galaxy that is Zend Framework will still keeping my day job. 
Though slow to progress, the following benchmarks have been achieved in Zupal.
Zend Forms: my, how they blow!
Submitted by bingomanatee on 13 April, 2009 - 23:19Ultimately anyone who comes into the ZF runs into forms and is blown away by how inflexible difficult the forms are to use. While they do have a fair amount of power, the investment you put into learning them doesn't seem to be in proportion to the functionality you get out of them.
Welcome to Wonderland Labs.com
This site is my professional storefront and warehouse of good ideas and useful tech links. (don't click this -- its an intro stub.)
Data Visualization
Submitted by bingomanatee on 31 January, 2010 - 10:13Some amazing informational diagrams of networks and such
Zupal III
Submitted by bingomanatee on 27 January, 2010 - 12:52I think one of the problems with Zupal is that I started at the domain end instead of looking into the hook system which is at the heart of Drupal.
The hook system is essentially the observer pattern externalized. But to some extent it is lopsy because the event system was applied incompletely. That is: the mechanisms that Drupal itself runs on are not hooks but are task solving PHP blocks.
That is one of the reasons that people still have to write modules in PHP.
Get Out of My Head!
Submitted by bingomanatee on 26 January, 2010 - 13:03
I was looking up Pith for an upcoming phone interview with SunRun and went to the pithmaster (son of pith?) Scott Adams. He does a great job of voicing the biggest problem with Solar (gaining prospect confidence that they are not pissing money away on green (as in inefficient) tech) -- but the creepy part is the ad.
Particles of the Whole
Submitted by bingomanatee on 21 January, 2010 - 10:45
An awesome particle 3D engine
Does Memcache ever stop giving?
Submitted by bingomanatee on 10 January, 2010 - 09:54A queuing system in Memcache
