David Martin is a web developer with a love for application design, macs and video games. He enjoys building complex web applications and photography. This is his personal blog.
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Expecting the Worst
On that one day, in that one year, inside of that one universe there was a project. This project was unlike any other project ever created. This project was completed, bug free, below budget, ahead of schedule and without conflict. The client understood everything the development team presented and the ideas were executed without flaw.
Lost Syntax, Still Lost
After almost a year of hibernation from Lost Syntax I finally got around to a design I felt comfortable with. This proved to be the easy part of the equation. Actual implementation on the other hand, well that’s a different story. After partial versions of this design done in Ruby on Rails, Django and Catalyst I settled on my old favorite, Symphony CMS.
Symphony CMS on (mt)
Symphony CMS requires PHP 5.1.16. The Media Temple Grid Servers do not come with PHP 5.1.16 setup by default. This can pose a bit of a problem when attempting to install Symphony. Thankfully there are several ways to work around this. I’ll cover the .htaccess solution I used during my installation process.









