http://mnavasca.ca I haven't thought of a tag line yet... Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:01:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en An Apple Mail undocumented feature that I can do without: Randomly shooting up to 100% CPU at least 3-4 times a day. After much googling (and following many dead ends) I've decided to blame Apple Mail's data detectors. Type the following on the command line: defaults write com.apple.mail DisableDataDetectors YES Restart Mail, ... http://mnavasca.ca/2009/05/11/an-undocumented-feature-of-apple-mail/ I came across this today at work: <?php $rowClass = '#f0f0f0' ?> <table> <?php foreach($this->books as $book) { ?> <?php $i = 0; ?> <tr class = "<?php echo $rowClass ?>"> <td><?php echo $book['author'] ?></td> </tr> <?php ... http://mnavasca.ca/2009/04/20/zebra-tables-in-zend-framework/ Six months later... and I don't miss Smarty at all. I'm perfectly happy with Zend Framework's view scripts and PHP's alternate syntax tags. Accepting view scripts was easy enough, it's part of the framework so I might as well use it. However I still couldn't accept seeing PHP code in ... http://mnavasca.ca/2009/04/04/whats-smarty/ The last couple of days I've been getting my hands dirty with the codebase of one of the projects at work. At first I was kind of excited because it's always a good experience becoming familiar with the unfamiliar. But imagine how my heart sank when I opened that first ... http://mnavasca.ca/2008/10/16/i-miss-smarty/ So just imagine going into work on a Monday morning. You're immediately called into an unscheduled meeting (which in my experience is never a good thing). You're informed that due to budgetary concerns you're being laid off. However a similiar position at another company has been generously arranged for you. ... http://mnavasca.ca/2008/10/10/a-new-job/