http://lukebaker.org lukebaker.org Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:27:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My wife and I are the proud parents of Claire Mae Baker.  She was born a few weeks early, but everyone is healthy. 5lbs. 12oz. 19 inches June 27, 2008 8:32pm http://lukebaker.org/archives/2008/07/01/claire-mae-baker/ Lately, I've been working on some SmugMug tweaks to take advantage of their offer of a free lifetime account for developers who use their API. The first one was a quick hack which uploads some recent SmugMug photos to your Flickr account. This allows people who switched to ... http://lukebaker.org/archives/2007/12/17/smugmug-tweaks/ I've been meaning to release this code for quite some time. I've finally had a bit of time and motivation to sit down and take care of it. Ever since I started working with Ruby on Rails, I would cringe whenever I had to write yet more PHP ... http://lukebaker.org/archives/2007/09/24/activerecord-in-php/ In its fifth year in the Michigan climate, my frangipani, a tropical plant, has finally bloomed. Today the first flower of the season unfurled, with many more on their way. Some pictures: http://lukebaker.org/archives/2007/07/06/frangipani-flower/ I recently went on a 3000 mile road trip, and as I was preparing for the trip, I wanted to know the answer to questions like "Where are all the Speedway gas stations that are within a mile of my route?". I couldn't find anything that would allow me ... http://lukebaker.org/archives/2007/04/19/search-along-a-driving-route/ Lots of people like to complain about support from various large companies, particularly if the support is comcastic. I certainly have enjoyed complaining about them from time to time. However, today I had one of my first good experiences with AT&T's support (formerly SBC in our area). The line ... http://lukebaker.org/archives/2007/03/09/att-support-and-naked-dsl/ Since working with Ruby on Rails, I've become much more conscious about how my code looks. Occasionally, when working with PHP there are things that are a part of the language that tend to make my code look ugly or just not very clear and succinct. One such case is ... http://lukebaker.org/archives/2007/03/01/php-and-named-parameters/ The web is buzzing about Yahoo! Pipes. It'll be interesting to see what people build with Pipes. I couldn't think of any need I had that would be fulfilled by Pipes, until today. I host this site on TextDrive / Joyent, and they have a forum that ... http://lukebaker.org/archives/2007/02/13/yahoo-pipes/ With PHP5, PHP introduced some more robust object oriented capabilities to the language. I've been diving into this quite a bit lately and learning a lot. I figured all the stuff I discovered about the static keyword would be enough fodder for a post. Most of this ... http://lukebaker.org/archives/2007/02/11/the-static-keyword-in-php5/ I've been using Subversion for a project I recently started at work. The project is a web application in PHP. Having enjoyed using Ruby on Rails on a different project, I wanted to setup a simple framework that borrows some ideas from Rails, like MVC, a test infrastructure, ... http://lukebaker.org/archives/2006/10/04/subversion-rocks/