The art in some of the CBD's laneways is great. I should take some photos, except then I would be taking a photo of something else, and not taking a photo for the sake of the photo (which is what I try to do), also, I'd look like a tourist. Anyway, the art is still great, but not according to our state government.
Went with the flow (Stephen bought an iPod classic) and bought an iPod touch in San Fran. Surprised at how much I like the device - I always thought there were a bit useless but I'm really enjoying it.
Stephen and I went into Virgin in the middle of the city looking for ipods. They had a pretty small range. Then we decided San Fran must have an Apple store, so we walked for *hours* looking for it. Couldn't find it anywhere. Crazy. So we trudged back to the hotel to look up the address...and we found out it was very close to where we just were. How had we missed it? We trudged back...and there it was, a huge, hulking Apple store with a massive Apple symbol on it...directly opposite the Virgin store we had first walked into. No idea how we had missed it...could it have been simply because it didn't have the word "Apple" written on a wall somewhere?
I wasted most of today trying to make phpunit tests work with the "controller" (it's not really a controller, it's a "command" object) in our work mvc.
First I had to mock the relevant classes so the methods I needed access to were public (yes, I know I'm not *supposed* to run tests against protected methods, but there are no public methods in this mvc!). That worked ok, but things started going bad when I tried to integrate the phpunit with our phpUnderControl continuous integration for testing - it got very confused with the include paths.
Things were already pretty messy at this stage, and it just got worse as I ran the controller test from the command line - more problems with include paths, problems with db connections...too many problems.
So I've given up. It works perfectly fine with the models, so I'm just going to happily, and easily, test them (and maybe push more functionality there).
That's a quote from michaeltwofish's mechanic and I think it makes a great point. There are a lot of people out there who aren't computer/Internet/web savvy and this is significant! Sometimes I think the web is for geeks only...
"Zend are co-opting PHP". PHP is/was an open source community. Zend is not.