You know the kind. Small and cute; if it was a few pounds heavier it would probably be cuddly. Nice little guy. I fed him some horse sausage.
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If you are a masochist (or your boss is a sadist(*); or your project made you one; or you have the ambition to be so) and need to set up job queues through Zend Framework with a MySQL database. Here’s how it’s done.
Precursor: finding any practical information/tutelage about Zend_Queue is nearly impossible. The documentation is complete shite – sorry; it just is. After fiddling around with it, I finally have a working model. Thought it worthy of ye good ‘ol fashion blog post.
It’s been one-hell-of-a stressful few days. Sitting here on the terrace, looking at nothing; hearing nothing; my mind went momentarily blank. It should do that more often.
Also, I’m pretty sure I just saw two crickets humping.
The things you see when your eyes are open.
As I look around the landscape, I see so many start-ups from here that just seem to have their shit together. It’s not just that they’re making stuff that actually works, they’re also doing it sexy. I stole that term. Allow me to explain.
Today we said goodbye to a very close friend. It got me thinking: the only thing worse than saying goodbye is never saying hello. I’m certainly not the first to say this. I’m just glad I did.
I’ll skip the bits about how cool it is to have my brothers with me here in Slovenia; it’s been a blast. In the short time they’ve been here, we’ve gone through at least a life time’s of adventure. As proof of this, I present the following video shot just a few hours ago.
Carbonite!
They have this tradition here in Slovenia where carbonite is placed in a barrel, soaked in water, and then tapped with something hot; a stick-on-fire is apropos. The explosion is something akin to a canon. Now, normally all goes on without a hitch. Until a Canadian shows up. If you haven’t already guessed it, this is not what’s supposed to happen.
Enjoy the show.
My day job — these days — is hacking Java. Well, that’s an understatement. I’ve been writing what is best described as some form of multi-platform, embedded system for a MysteryProjectThatImSwornToSilenceOver with some really cool people WhoImNotAllowedToMention. It’s an audio-visual experience involving joysticks and touch-screens; it keeps my left brain in tune. My night job is, well, multi-lobal funk.
It was our first trip to Canada as a family. Nataša and I were a bit nervous. Travelling overseas with a one year old is not for the faint of heart. But! It was necessary: my family hadn’t yet met our daughter Nyree and it had been years since I myself had been back. As it turned out the trip was a little-more-than extraordinary. It was something you’d almost expect to see on an American Soap Opera.
Received this painting from my niece yesterday. The girl’s got skill.
Thanks for the new desktop Arwen!
For the past year, Matej and I have been working hard on a new startup. We have revolutionized printing as you know it. Just kidding. We did this in two weeks. Just kidding. Matej did it in one week; I’m just stealing a breath of bragging right.
Envelopa.com is a super-simple utility for printing addresses on an envelope. It’s old school — we know — but it was one of those problems that we couldn’t find a simple and free solution for. It was also something that fit into our “if it can’t be done in a week, we won’t do it” mantra.
(Note: our next one’s a real whopper so that mantra dies now.)
Envelopa is pretty basic in its current form. You sign up, paste contacts from a spreadsheet or create new ones manually, and generate formatted PDFs for each of those contacts. You can then take those PDF files and (using only an Inkjet printer as odd as that might sound) print them directly onto your envelope. We’re, rather Matej’s, busy with adding support for importing contacts via Google and a CSV file-upload utility.
It might just save you a few minutes of time; we find that pretty darned useful. Check it out.