Really excited for Forte Festival in a couple of weeks. One review describes the 2016 one as ‘the perfect blend of techno and nature’. A+. Throw in generative art installations and eco-camping – this is going to be great.
Month: August 2018
If you work with PHP, and are looking for an MVC framework, I would very highly recommend Laravel. I came from a background working with ASP.NET MVC, and if anything I am finding Laravel more enjoyable to use. I much prefer C# to PHP as a language, but for some reason I find Laravel incredibly feature-complete and easier to use right out of the box. The wider ecosystem is great too – for example, we needed some auditing functionality, and lo and behold, there’s a FOSS auditing library that does 99% of what we need already.
I know that in PHP land there is something of a Symfony vs Laravel debate. From my peruse of the discussion on that, Symfony could be seen as a more rigid and principled framework, while Laravel allows you a little more flex. In our case this made sense, as we were migrating from a bespoke MVC framework, so a little bit of flexibility helped us reuse a lot of the existing code.
The City & The City: A+++ would recommend. Episode 3 was a corker.
Been doing some reading about lexers and parsers in PHP. Some useful resources:
- https://nitschinger.at/Writing-a-simple-lexer-in-PHP/
- https://www.codediesel.com/php/building-a-simple-parser-and-lexer-in-php/
- https://github.com/weltling/parle/blob/master/README.md
- https://jwage.com/posts/2012/09/15/writing-a-parser-in-php-with-the-help-of-doctrine/
- https://vierbergenlars.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/creating-a-parser-in-php/
I’ve been coding Laravel in Spacemacs of late, and I wanted to set it up so that blade templates are loaded using
web-mode.
Hey presto, the answer is already on stackoverflow.
Put this in the user-config section of .spacemacs:
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.blade.php\\'" . web-mode))
The City & The City is really good. Just watched episode 2 and getting hooked. It’s a really interesting concept of a mental border. A means to segregate people psychologically even when there is no physical border.
Plus, loving all the Northern accents.
My fiction book at the moment is Blue Remembered Earth by Alistair Reynolds. I’m enjoying it so far. The characters are a bit flat, but it’s got an interesting mystery in it. One thing I really like is the background world, it’s around mid-22nd century, and Africa, China, and India are the big world powers. It’s not discussed at all in the narrative – but it seems like a very possible future. It’s relatively peaceful and quasi-Utopian, although it’s hinted at that some of that peace seems to come from authoritarian-sounding mass surveillance.
“it takes a lot of courage to go out there and radiate your essence”
true enough
Just watched the first episode of The City & The City. I enjoyed it. It’s a great book and they’ve done a good job of capturing some of the atmosphere of the book. It didn’t look 100% how I pictured it, but I got into it really quickly. It’s a fascinating story.
On a side note, did a street called Gunterstrasse actually feature in the book? It feels like a blatant reference to old divided Berlin, and I don’t recall the book being quite so explicit about that, but maybe I’m just forgetting.