Comments for Matthew Bull

Comment on symfony’s sfGuard plugin and LDAP by Ashton Honnecke

Ashton Honnecke — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:11:41 +0000

I have detailed a solution to this problem, very easily altered to use both or either authentication mechanisms. The big deal is to alter the validator for that signin form because that is where it blows up where there is no user.

http://blog.honnecke.us/2010/01/using-sfdoctrineguardusers-external-authentication/

Comment on symfony redirect vs forward by Arian

Arian — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:22:17 +0000

well heres one normal case where you would need to use a forward i think…
if you are handling form submission in another action, then the handleError for that action, will need to forward back to original form(action) so the form has orig request variables to display the error messages i believe. or you could submit the form to itself (i choose against this recently on 1 form as there are a few buttons to submit, and it was easier to just set validation yml files for each action [versus do custom validation with validateActioname() and check which button was pressed]).

Comment on Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK by matthew

matthew — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:40:51 +0000

Well, I found it tricky because I’d not done any image processing before, and hadn’t even done much C programming. However this code on googlecode was helpful to get started:
http://code.google.com/p/simple-iphone-image-processing/

The code didn’t seem to work as-is with colour, but with some hacking around you should be able to get it working.

Basically you just have to remember that each pixel in a colour image has three 8-bit colour channels and an alpha channel, each with values between 0 and 255. So processing an image consists of looping through bytes 1-4, 5-8, etc (ie pixel by pixel), modifying the values for each byte (channel) to get the colour you want for the overall pixel.

The principle is simple, but getting it right in practice is a bit fiddly.

Good luck!

Comment on Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK by Bob Williams

Bob Williams — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:07:26 +0000

Getting ready to start iPhone development project that will need to take a photo and then modify it. Can you give me some good reference sites to get me started.

Thanks in advance
Bob Williams

Comment on Matrix GUI, asset builders (and mums) by matthew

matthew — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:42:56 +0000

I’m sure community development does happen for Matrix. I think in my case (and that of the team I work in) it just seemed too much of a learning curve compared with, say, Drupal. The latter has the advantage that’s it’s relatively widely documented and talked about in blogs etc, and there are plenty of companies around who offer some excellent dev services. I’m not saying that doesn’t happen for Matrix, but seemingly on a much smaller scale.
I also don’t know whether the structure of Matrix under the hood is better than Drupal. It can’t be much worse, as Drupal’s pretty hacky in a number of areas, and is still very “php4″. But I found the documentation for Matrix development a bit sparse, and there wasn’t really an API in the Wordpress/Drupal etc sense.
Anyway it’s a bit academic as we’ve now committed to Drupal.

Comment on wordpress mu XSRF by matthew

matthew — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:34:24 +0000

Scott,
I’m a bit late replying I know, but if you’re still having problems send over some code and I’ll see if I can help.

Comment on Matrix GUI, asset builders (and mums) by Nic Hubbard

Nic Hubbard — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:46:16 +0000

Community Development DOES happen. Creating custom assets is not all that difficult, you just have to have a good understanding of php, and read through other assets to understand how they are built. I have developed 3 assets which have been added to Matrix, which includes a Javascript API.

If you want to get your hands dirty with developing for Matrix, let me know. It can be a steep curve, but it is great once you get past that.

Comment on wordpress mu XSRF by Scott

Scott — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:18:46 +0000

Hey Matt,

Any way you could take a look at some code I’m trying to get working in WPMU using wp_nonce and whitelist.

Shoot me an email.

Thanks!
-Scott

Comment on symfony’s sfGuard plugin and LDAP by Stefan

Stefan — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:55:18 +0000

Any new findings on this one? I’m running into the same problem implementing a Facebook Connect for a Symfony app.

Comment on Review of Panic’s Coda – One-Window Web Development for Mac OS X by matthew

matthew — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:40:28 +0000

Well I have no experience of BBEdit. But I’d say if I now had a choice between Coda and Textmate, I’d probably go for Coda. It does cost more, but is easy to use, and looks really nice. I have to say since I’ve got into using it with svn and remote sites more, I can’t imagine how I managed before.
It’s not like Coda’s perfect, and it has some annoying little svn and file transfer issues. But it is a great environment for coding in a rapid development dev/staging setup.