Gordaen's Blog

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PHP frameworks are supposed to empower the coder, while helping to keep things standardized. Unfortunately, that often means dealing with limitations or significant overhead. It is very difficult to find the right framework for any project, small or large, but I’ve created an all-purpose framework called Bruised Coccyx (Bruco for short). It’s goal is to [...]

I’ve been working on a complete redesign of my ugly main site this summer (including rewriting all of the code). When I was perhaps halfway done, I thought that I should use a PHP framework. I had to redo most of the code, again, but it would save me work in the future and force [...]

Some of my coworkers have been struck by the Python bug (the one that makes you think Python is superior to all other languages) and they’ve been using the Django framework quite a bit. Since most of our code is in PHP, my knowledge is focused around PHP, and I have not had the time [...]

Google Image Labeler is a brilliant, simple, and addictive answer to a common problem: identifying images. If you’re like me, you’ve often found image searches less than helpful. Unfortunately, without insanely sophisticated software, the only easy way to recognize images is by human interpretation. Since it is far too expensive to try to pay people [...]