Category Archives: Programming

Vim Blog

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Josh Kenzer

I took the popular vimpress plugin and added the ability to upload images and set a post status type (draft or published).  More changes to come. Download it here Commands : :BlogList [count] Lists the last x articles in the … Continue reading →

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Installing VimGolf on Windows 7

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Josh Kenzer

VimGolf is a “competition” to see how efficiently you can format a text document using as few vim keystrokes as possible. I was interested in participating to hone my Vim skills and to get a guage as to how effective … Continue reading →

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JQuery Slideshow Using a Regular Browser Scrollbar

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Josh Kenzer

Inspired by the great work of Roman Cortes, I wanted to see if I could make an image gallery that used a regular scroll bar to change the images. I used the JQuery library and changed the opacity based off … Continue reading →

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The Zend Framework

Posted on April 1, 2008 by Josh Kenzer

I’ve reviewed a few programming frameworks on this site: Ruby on Rails, Django and CakePHP. I think learning each one has made me pretty adept at quickly picking up a new framework and trying it out. So, when our development team … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-10-01

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Josh Kenzer

7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails – O’Reilly Ruby A very well articulated summary of switching from PHP to Ruby (RoR) and then back to PHP. (tags: programming rubyonrails php rails ruby web development)

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YouTube – Ruby on Rails vs PHP – RailsEnvy.com Commercial #3

Posted on September 12, 2007 by Josh Kenzer

YouTube – Ruby on Rails vs PHP – RailsEnvy.com Commercial #3 This video is hilarious. And oh so true. 

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Django Web Framework for those who use Python

Posted on September 10, 2007 by Josh Kenzer

I’ve played with both Rails and CakePHP and found them both to be awesome development environments. However, after a few frustrating weeks of dealing with other’s PHP code (not related to CakePHP), I’ve determine that PHP is the equivalent of … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-08-22

Posted on August 22, 2007 by Josh Kenzer

Micro Persuasion: Making the Move to WordPress Long time TypePad blogger making the switch to WordPress. Interesting (tags: Blogging WordPress Typepad) Framework Performance – Rails vs Django vs Symfony Hard core performance testing of three of the top frameworks today. … Continue reading →

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jQuery makes AJAX easy

Posted on July 31, 2007 by Josh Kenzer

If you work in web development and need to pull off some nifty web 2.0 features like CSS manipulation and AJAX, I can’t recommend the jQuery library enough. I originally heard about it from Alex King’s blog and was inspired … Continue reading →

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Experimenting with CakePHP

Posted on April 3, 2007 by Josh Kenzer

CakePHP is the PHP equivalent to Ruby on Rails. There are quite a few PHP MVC (Model, View, Controller) frameworks for PHP, but I chose to experiment with CakePHP because it seemed to have a pretty complete list of features. … Continue reading →

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