Been a long time…
Sheesh! Things have been real busy, haven’t had much time to sit down and come up with a coherent post. My next update to phpVMS keeps getting pushed back; it’s been crunch time at work.
Though I’ve been messing with a few things – I cut memory usage by about 50% in phpVMS by using __autoload(). Perhaps that can be a good next post.
But I guess the big news (maybe), is that I’m discontinuing Codon. Not that it affects anybody really except my private projects and the few projects it was used on, but I’d rather concentrate my efforts on my new love – CodeIgniter. I’m really digging it, it’s almost as it’s an exact copy of Codon, with how the models work, etc. Though there are alot of PHP4-isms, I think it’s better for me to focus some efforts on learning and modding that. Codon was a great learning project for MVC (which is what it was always meant as). I don’t think there’s any better way to learn how something works than to build it by scratch. You really get to see the ins-and-outs, the pros and cons and the dilemmas faced by doing something like that.
I’ll be porting my date/time math module over to CI soon, but also some mods I’ve been working on to introduce autoload() into CI (drastic memory improvements), and also maybe implement ezSQL into it, since ezSQL is much more lightweight than their ActiveRecord class. I’m using CI now as part of two broader projects involving phpVMS; right now it’s being used as the code behind the remote API which all the phpVMS installs do talk to. I definately like to squeeze any bit of optimizations I can find.
