Kyle Bragger

I am working on perhaps the coolest mathematical formula in the history of the world.

iPhone syncing issues

My iPhone no longer is recognized by my iTunes when I connect it. However, it still will charge when connected, and iPhoto recognizes that the phone is connected and will let me import photos as usual. It just seems iTunes isn’t seeing the phone for some reason.

Anyone else see this behavior? kyle.bragger AT gmail.com

UPDATE: Reinstalling iTunes seems to have done the trick.

Moving on.

As some close to me have already known, I have officially left my position as CTO at BricaBox. I hope them the best, and I’m confident that they will make a huge splash. That being said, today is the start of a new phase for me, both personally and professionally; I am working out most days of the week, have lost nearly eight pounds to date, and am feeling most excellent physically and mentally. Today is also the first official day of full-time work with Zach at our new company, Decent Human. Exciting things are happening and I can’t wait to share them.

Switching.

I’m switching. No, not to a Mac (already did that sometime in early 2000). I’m switching from CodeIgniter to Kohana. Why? A few reasons, really. Kohana was branched from CI and refactored to be pure PHP 5 OOP; no legacy PHP 4 code to be found. It also features a less restrictive input and routing system (to wit: mixing paths and query strings really is okay!) and a very good ORM layer (something that I had found CI to be somewhat lacking in) — I still love writing pure SQL, especially for expensive queries, but the ability to quickly find a single record or save some data from a POST is gold. Kohana also (optionally) comes bundled with a few really great libraries, including HTMLPurifier, Swift, and Markdown, as well as a great prefab authentication layer. The framework is also heavily community-driven, with commits happening around the clock. I highly recommend you developer-types check out Kohana and evaluate it for yourself; it’s worth it.