Author Archives: aaronfalloon
Maintainable CSS
I’m currently using Blueprint CSS to handle any design work I have to do. However, I’m starting to notice some problems with it.
The main problem is going to be maintainability in the long run. In Blueprint CSS you take advantage of the grid by adding classes to HTML elements. If you have a class on [...]
Setting up Virtual Hosts with MAMP
I’ve just spent the last 45 minutes attempting to setup a virtual host in MAMP. I finally got it done with help from this article.
Serialization
Again, whilst working my way through Practical symfony, I came across a word which I didn’t understand – serialization.
And again, I’ve learnt something new today. Serialization (or serialisation in the UK) is the process of converting a data structure or object into a sequence of bits so that it can be stored or transmitted.
To slugify?
I’m currently working my way through Practical symfony and I’m on day 5. It’s talking about the need to “slugify” column names before they can be used in URLs. However, what does “slugifying” a string actually do?
Well, it replaces non-ASCII characters with ASCII characters. You learn something new everyday.
Spanish nouns
I found a great article on Wikipedia about Spanish nouns. The most useful part details how to tell the gender of a noun by its ending.
Most frequently used Spanish words
As I’ve mentioned a few times – I’m actively learning Spanish.
A huge part of becoming fluent will involve learning a lot of vocabulary. However, I don’t want to be learning words I’m not going to be using that often – that’s where frequency lists come in.
Frequency lists allow you to “optimise” your vocabulary learning.
I’m being put off by complexity
I’m still working on a data model for tfm and it’s getting more and more complicated. Its complexity is starting to put me off. That’s why I’ve decided to break it into a number of small problems and solve each small problem first.
At the moment I see tfm’s data model breaking up into 5 distinct [...]
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