October 15, 2009
I've been recently working on a project called the Gramorail, which is a pedal powered train. The train will be in two parts: a locomotive with 4 pedaling passengers pulling a second cart. The second section will have an oversized gramophone playing a large record which project sound and video. The Gramorail is intended to be run on the unused railway tracks of Vancouver such as the Arbutus Corridor. The project is run by the Vancouver Design Nerds with workshop space and technical consulting from eatART.
The Gramorail is expected to launch in spring 2010 with a parade and street party. Given the success of our fund-raising party, it should be a good time for all.
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October 1, 2009
This site is intended to be a catch all for various projects I am involved with. It was also a great excuse to learn yet another web development framework and to re-acquaint myself with PHP. I've come to two conclusions. PHP is a much more nasty and ugly language than I remember, yet I quite like Zend Framework.
Zend doesn't force you too much into it's conventions, and has no predetermined model architecture. While Zend contains a full MVC application skeleton, it's a modular series of classes and libraries. One of my motivations for learning it was that I am finding it's starting to be used in older projects with another framework's application architecture. Zend has a higher learning curve overhead, with the reward of an extensible and flexible framework. It almost makes up for my dislike of PHP as a language.
This site has been a long time coming. But, I suppose the cobbler is the last to get a pair of shoes.