Don Gilbert Dot Net

Beautiful Sunset

Don Gilbert — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:05:01 +0000

Apple Hardware

Don Gilbert — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:56:21 +0000

What a great piece of hardware this is.

Apple Improves Security in Lion

Don Gilbert — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:30:01 +0000

“Sandboxing protects the system by limiting the kinds of operations an application can perform, such as opening documents or accessing the network. Sandboxing makes it more difficult for a security threat to take advantage of an issue in a specific application to affect the greater system.”

Thank you Apple – I’ve been waiting for this since hearing about its creation for Linux. Read more about Lion here.

Diving in – PHP Frameworks

Don Gilbert — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:27:13 +0000

I’ve been working with PHP for about 5 years now, and am starting to get into PHP frameworks. I’ve grown accustomed to using and customizing existing CMS’s to meet my needs, (such as Joomla!, WordPress, Magento and the like) but I think it’s about time to “graduate” and start writing my own code.

With the advances in PHP 5.3, I know that I want to learn a framework that implements those advances in every way possible – they are that good. I’ll go over those in another post. So far, I’ve come across two very promising PHP 5.3+ frameworks – Fuel and Laravel.

FUEL PHP

Fuel is the lovechild of Dan Horrigan and Phil Sturgeon (along with some others – Jelmer) and is really awesome. I was digging through the docs, and came across some very cool and useful things. Out of all of them, I would have to say the most useful is the OIL package which offers a command line interface for Fuel and makes scaffolding, database migrations, and project creation a breeze and allows you to focus on what’s important – the functionality of your program.

LARAVEL

Laravel is another great new option in the PHP5.3+ framework arena. What makes Laravel stand out is its focus on Routes. Routes in Laravel reside in a single “routes.php”
file and replaces the “controllers” (and hence, the idea of MVC) found in most other frameworks. This (I think) really fits my coding style better – as I’m able to wrap my head around this concept and style of coding a little better than MVC.

Along with routes, another great part of Laravel is it’s Eloquent ORM. From the docs page, “It is named ‘Eloquent’ because it allows you to work with your database objects and relationships using an eloquent and expressive syntax.” Check the link and read up on the docs to see why it is so awesome.

More to come on both of these frameworks…

Chillin’ on Sunday

Don Gilbert — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:58:39 +0000

Me and Donny chilling on Sunday afternoon. I love this kid!

Switched Back to iPhone

Don Gilbert — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:26:59 +0000

I just switched back to my beloved iPhone after a few months with a Galaxy S. I liked it, but nothing beats the iPhone.

Don Gilbert — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 02:39:47 +0000

Check out http://ma.tt – Matt Mullenweg is a great resource of information on many topics, one of which is WordPress.

I was going to wait…

Don Gilbert — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 02:19:49 +0000

but I decided not too. I couldn’t figure out what this site should be, so I was going to save it until it was something. But then I had this thought: “If I keep waiting, it never will be anything. If I want it to be something, I better get on with it!” So here it is.

But… just what is it going to be? You should read the About Me page, I’ve gone in to more detail there.

Some samples of content that you will find here:

Links to other blogs that I read and find useful.
Posts about Plugins that I write for WordPress.
Support forum for said Plugins. (eventually)
Poems
Proper use of grammar (at least an attempt at it)
Client Work (unless of course, they wish not to be affiliated with me. )
Social Media Suggestions (there are no set rules when it comes to social media)
Advertising and Product Reviews (mainly WordPress themes and plugins.)
An occasional eBook promotion.
Discounts / Promotions (usually web development related)
(hopefully) Well organized / categorized content.
Generally useful information.
Opinions and comments on articles that I find interesting

If there’s anything else you would like to see here – drop me a line at don @ this domain and I’ll get back with you as soon as I can. Who knows? Your question may help others find the answer they’ve been looking for. yadda yadda yadda.