2005 November

Building MVC Applications with PHP-Controller

Eddie A. Tejeda published this entry on Tuesday 22 November, 2005 at 12:51 pm. It's been filed in the Technology category. {Share Your Thoughts}

PHP began as a simple scripting language, but newer features have given the language the structure and libraries for building large applications. Smarty, a templating and presentation engine, allows applications to be developed in modules, by separating the presentation layer from the application code.
Although Smarty provides an easy way to separate the presentation from the [...]

Reponse to “Why the WSIS? Democracy and cyberspace”

Eddie A. Tejeda published this entry on Wednesday 16 November, 2005 at 3:27 pm. It's been filed in the Ideas + Technology category. {1 Comment}

"Why the WSIS? Democracy and cyberspace" by Becky Hogge has few major problems that I would like to point out. First of all, the article dismisses the entire political process in making the decisions of controlling the web. The writer claims that "in the end we, the users of the internet, are the ones in [...]

New Release: PHP-Controller 0.4

Eddie A. Tejeda published this entry on Tuesday 15 November, 2005 at 6:34 pm. It's been filed in the Technology category. {Share Your Thoughts}

This is release version 0.4 of PHP-Controller, and it is by far the most complete. The project is also on freshmeat where it seems to be getting some traffic.
Today, I successfully reworked most of the code and deployed onto the server without any problems. The API is close to complete, I do not expect [...]

The Real Eddie Tejeda Please Stand Up

Eddie A. Tejeda published this entry on Monday 14 November, 2005 at 11:15 pm. It's been filed in the Ideas category. {Share Your Thoughts}

This is not me.

New Release of PHP-Controller 0.3

Eddie A. Tejeda published this entry on Tuesday 08 November, 2005 at 5:38 pm. It's been filed in the Technology category. {Share Your Thoughts}

Today marks the new release of PHP-Controller. You can view the project page at www.nailchipper.com/eddie/PHP-Controller/. The page now fowards you to http://users.visudo.com/eddie/phpc.php, because this new version of the Controller is only for PHP5 and nailchipper is still PHP4. You can also see the demo. The demo has debugger enabled so that you can see how [...]

On Education

Eddie A. Tejeda published this entry on Sunday 06 November, 2005 at 12:54 pm. It's been filed in the Education + Ideas category. {Share Your Thoughts}

A few months back I read very upseting essay in Harper’s Magazine by Jonotahn Kozol . I found it online here: Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid. The essay was published at around the same time his new book, The Shame of the Nation : The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America was released. [...]