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A weird waking schedule

11:06am JST Friday 22 February 2008 (day 13848)

This morning I was awake from like 2:30am to 4:30 or 5am (5:30?) (which included a shower, and eating three (3) bowls of cereal while reading the first 20 pages of the Fourth (4th) volume in Atlantean Secrets), and then slept again until an alarm at 8:30.

During that sleep, I dreamt (*), and then woke up and did a waking version of the same thing: went outside to collect some dirt and then made a bit of a mess in the trough-sink to transplant my little plant!

Now I'm at work.

Dream Dude's dirt

11:11am JST Friday 22 February 2008 (day 13848)

(*)

At Dude's house, which was a bit like a cabin in the woods, I came in without aksing and opened up some kind of old musty pillow that had been discarded so long that its contents had turned to soil. I put the soil in some sort of container and was just about finished when I heard Dude coming home. I was like, "oops!" hoping he wouldn't mind that I had just walked in, but happy to see my friend again after so long without.

Fashion

1:22pm JST Friday 22 February 2008 (day 13848)

Lately, there's been a guy standing outside a building remodeling project. From his outfit, he looks like a 1930's gangster / pimp. If Francois were here, I'd already have a picture of the guy. Soon, though. Soon.

Installing 5 PHP frameworks

11:14am JST Friday 22 February 2008 (day 13848)

And now I'm going to take notes while I install some PHP frameworks to see if I find one I like.

PS: despite my grand plan and php.robnugen.com, there is almost no chance that I'm going to install more than a couple frameworks. Many people have compared frameworks before. The only thing that begins to distinguish my installations: I'm going make sure the date and version are prominently indicated.

1. Cake, version 1.1.19.6305.

   Summary: 52 minutes to get up and running. Once I'm up and running, I have nothing to show for it. Docs are available, but not unless I look for them. Also, there were some links to documentation on the front page, but the page vanishes if I create the very file the suggest to create. Not sure how to get it back unless I rm / mv the file they said I should create.

2. Symfony, sandbox (can't find a version number)

   Summary: 66 minutes to get just the front page up, but no customizations; I couldn't figure out where to go next; I got errors when I tried to run the command line. Dead in the water.

3. Zend, version 1.0.3

   Summary: 11 minutes to find the archive is nearly 4Gigs, which means it's fully featured, but I couldn't figure out how to get anything to work. Not even a front page.

4. akelos, version 0.8

   Summary: 27 minutes to find I actually liked this one; it gave me a wizard to enter the DB information in an easy step-by-step manner. I like the setup: they have space for 3 DBs: production, development, and test. The test DB is copied from development via a simple command. However, I chunked it cause the code gives tons of warnings when run with PHP version 5; it's using some deprecated code styles (run-time call by reference). Oh, and cause I couldn't get past the DB setup, despite ignoring the warnings.

   May want to try this again once they get to version 1+ and work with PHP 5.

5. Kohana, version 2.1.1

   Summary: 10 minutes to get something up-n-running, including having selected options on their download page as to which modules I want included. Kohana is based on Codeigniter, and has a similar (identical?) directory structure. I liked the small size of Kohana, but I didn't see how to get started once I got the hello world screen up.

Installs so far

6:52pm JST Friday 22 February 2008 (day 13848)

Well, so far, Cake and Kohana have been the best. Kohana is way small and Cake is.. not as small. (not sure what else to say about it yet)

Of the others I tried, these are the only two that I was able to get *anything* online in a reasonable amount of time (if I ignore Cake's plea for money posing as an archive file).

Zzzzz

2:00am JST Saturday 23 February 2008 (day 13849)

Tonight is the night I came home after Nobu's byebye party (chowing in the stinky Shibuya bar (talking to Enda, Brian, and Mark) and then moved to HobGoblin (my first time to be there; chatted with Brian)) all stinkin' like smoke, but found clothes in the washer. I knocked on doors up here; they weren't Natalia's nor Mario's. Karen's light was on, but she didn't answer. I heaped the clothes up onto one of my hangers and then did my laundry underneath. Read for 45 minutes and then slept for 20 minutes and the clothes were done.

Hung them up and now going to sleep.