My thoughts, rants and musings on technology, life, or otherwise

First off, I apologize to those who have tried to post comments. I did not realize I had broken my commenting section when I recently uploaded a threaded comment plugin. As far as I can tell, it is fixed.

I’ve received a few emails and requests for more information about linking Symfony to Joomla (Original Post). The questions were pretty varied, but mostly centered around gaining some additional clarity and securing my approach using symmetric encryption.

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Christine and I have planned a trip to Europe for the beginning of September.  Two weeks of traveling and adventure.

Downside is, I’m terribly out of shape.  Europe is going to be a lot of walking… “urban hiking”, if you will.  Those that know me realize I have a mostly sedentary life style.  I write code most of the day and spend my evenings veg-ing in front of the TV.

So with the trip looming over my head I’ve decided to impart on a sort of lifestyle change.  I’m now off to my local gym every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 5:30am for an hour work out with a co-worker.

We’ll see how this pans out.

I’ve been having this migraine of a headache lately. Its the result of trying to get a symfony-based web service that requires authentication to hook up with a Joomla web site. I’ve tried using COil’s suggestions, but it still didn’t quite work.

UPDATE 6/10/08:  I think I’ve nailed a solution down.

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