Think Like a robot

10Jan/122

Jquery Image Picker

Posted by Tim

I have released version 1.0 of Jquery Image picker. This is my first Jquery plugin and ive very excited to have written it.  Jquery image picker is very simple to use and yields great functionality.Screenshot

11Dec/110

Think Like a Robot.com

Posted by Tim

Recently I bought a new domain ThinkLikeARobot.com  And well this is my new site :)   im pretty thrilled about it and everything seems to be running really smooth. If you are looking for my FuelPHP tutorials they are still here and everything has been transferred over with no issues. I'm excited about this new site and lots of big plans for it stay tuned :)

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3Dec/110

Geek-End hackathon

Posted by Tim

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About a month ago I was lucky enough to get to part take in my first hackathon. What an experience it was! Luckily I had two very good friends on my team to try to help achieve a win.

28Nov/110

Furthering your education

Posted by Tim

 An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
-- Benjamin Franklin

What  a great quote. If you think about the more you put into your education the more you can get out of it. Rather formal or informal  furthering your education will help you get further in live.  I personally wanted to further my education with out going back to school , I hate the hard cost and dedicated man hours you have to put into it. Another employ posted a  link that was exactly what I was looking for , a way to further my education, for free , from a great school ! Wow just that thought of that is amazing.   I wanted to share this  with other and hopefully you will also sign up for some classes . http://www.uncollege.org/archives/1441  Uncollege is a unique take college that I think everyone should try out.

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27Nov/112

FuelPHP- Blog tutorial -part 1

Posted by Tim

For those of you whom have been living  under a rock some where and haven't heard of or read about FuelPHP I feel sorry for you! FuelPHP is still a relatively new frame work on the scene but I believe it is going to make a huge splash in a already crowded  pond. One of the key features I feel is the  Ruby on Rails type scaffolding.  FuelPHP uses a cli (command line interface) to build the controller, model , and views. The Controller will come with basic CRUD functions , this is great for rapid prototyping  & development.   Enough about the pitch and sell of FuelPHP lets  get down to the brass tacks and build something.

26Nov/110

IsSet vs Array_Key_exisit

Posted by Tim

A friend of mine posted on Twitter   "isset() or array_key_exists() ?"  I felt this would be a good time for  me to do a simple bench mark . For this test I used apache 2.2.17  and PHP 5.3.4. Pretty standard nothing fancy.  I didn't want to just test  both functions using the same key value in an array , so we will randomly  choose a  new key value each time we run the test. Our array will have 10,000 entries  giving us a  very large range to test the execution difference between entry 1 and entry 9999.