From the monthly archives: August 2011
Kohana is one of the fastest PHP MVC frameworks around, forking from CodeIgniter a few years ago but fully optimized for PHP v5. Although it has a solid pedigree and is used by an ever-growing number of top sites, it suffers from a lack of documentation and a comparatively small community of developers. Packt’s latest book, Kohana [...]
Continue Reading →Today I learned that natural products that claim health benefits have to be licensed by Health Canada before they can be purchased over the counter. Who would have thought you’d need a license for a natural product? I’m sure the broccoli florets I bought yesterday didn’t have a license, I must check. Why do we [...]
Continue Reading →In my previous Grinds (13 to date) I’ve never warmed up. I stretch but I’m scared of losing energy and want to make sure I keep every ounce of energy for the climb. It seems I may have been doing it all wrong. I statically stretch before a Grind — my quadriceps, hamstrings, calf muscles [...]
Continue Reading →A new store appeared next to my client’s office, no more than 100 yards from the SeaBus terminal in North Vancouver. Coffee Bun is a small Japanese-styled coffee shop with a heavenly aroma flooding the precinct outside. The baked goodies are delightfully unique creations that are hard to describe, it’s about the size of a [...]
Continue Reading →O Sushi in the Westwood Plateau strip mall just off Johnson St has to be the best sushi restaurant in Coquitlam. When we first moved here, in 2005, we were surprised by the number of sushi restaurants. In London, I always used to go to ‘Yo Sushi!’ and pick from their revolving belt but in [...]
Continue Reading →I just finished watching ‘Up in the Air’ with George Clooney on my Boxee Box (I’ll blog about it — you just need MakeMKV and AnyDVD HD but it’s another long article). It was just me and Harley Dog chilling out as the evening was drawing in and I was mentally winding down the weekend [...]
Continue Reading →Terence Byrne, I salute you. And as for Amy Tso and Sebastian Albrecht… impressive. As I continue with my addiction to The Grouse Grind there is one name that keeps popping up on the leadership board, Mr Terence Byrne. At the time of writing, Mr Byrne has completed 114 Grinds this season with a personal best [...]
Continue Reading →Here’s a guide to The Grind for first-time hiker. The Grind is a gruelling hike that will take anything up to 3 hours to complete depending on your level of fitness and preparedness. How Long Will it Take? If your aerobic fitness is good you should be able to do it in less than 60 [...]
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The Grouse Grind, or “The Grind” as we Vancouverites call it, is a gruelling, tortuous, yet ultimately exhilirating, hike in North Vancouver. It will eat you up, twist your leg muscles into knots and laugh at you when you’re on your knees begging for mercy … but it’s addictive. Very, very addictive. The Grind is [...]
Continue Reading →I bought a Nike + iPod for Vancouver’s 10km Sun Run in April 2011. I’d been running on the treadmill for about four months but I didn’t know how to run on the road. As I explained to my wife, I set the treadmill to a particular speed and I just keep up — I [...]
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