Archive for June, 2008

Note to CodeIgniter nerds: please, no looping code in your views.

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

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I was researching things ‘nerd’ on the Web today, and I found myself at the CodeIgniter website.

For those of you who may not know, CodeIgniter is an MVC PHP framework.

What is an MVC framework?

I won’t go into details here since we’ve covered MVC basics elsewhere. Let me just say though, that an MVC framework is a bunch of PHP code organized into a reusable structure/system designed to make building web applications easier.

MVC is short for:

- Model
- View
- Controller

The general idea is to keep code separated by it’s function.

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Does Wordpress 2.5.1 suck?

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

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I know I will probably get blasted/flamed for this post … but that’s the life of a nerd with an opinion.

So does WP 2.5.1 suck? I’m not sure!

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UPDATE:

I have since discovered new information and have resolved the problem … kind of. You can find details in the comments below.

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So what’s the problem with Wordpress 2.5.1?

I just recently installed the this latest version of Wordpress (2.5.1) and quickly found it hanging (while trying to load a page) for as long as 40-50 seconds!

I then proceeded to isolate the potential causes (database, custom fields, custom theme) and have since found out that something stinks in 2.5.1’s core.

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