http://www.mikejw.co.uk Web programmer guy en-us http://www.mikejw.co.uk/blog/item/5Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:35:18 +0000Welcome to the first live site to use the latest version of my own MVC (for use with Smarty) that is now successfully running on top of PHP 5.3.  Recent work on it has been a fun ride, driven mostly out of a desire to have controller classes whose...http://www.mikejw.co.uk/blog/item/4Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:18:44 +0100As a developer, one of the great things I love about Gentoo (Linux distribution with BSD 'ports-like' package management) is the feeling it gives you that eveything you do to your system has an undo button. (For the record, I have at least come to my...http://www.mikejw.co.uk/blog/item/3Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:47:02 +0100I'm going to be ordering 'XMPP: The Definitive Guide' today (ISBN 059652126X).  I have a project coming up which, fingers crossed, will be an ideal opportunity to become versed in this technology. I remember a few years ago, when I came across the...http://www.mikejw.co.uk/blog/item/1Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:28:05 +0100Step 1 - Install Symfony into your PHP library path: # cd /usr/share/php# wget http://www.symfony-project.org/get/symfony-stable.tgz# gunzip symfony-stable.tgz ; tar -xvf symfony-stable.tar# ln -s symfony-X/lib symfony# mkdir data# ln -s ../symfony...