Eric Martin - The blog, projects and photography of Eric Martin

When I changed jobs, my commute changed from mostly surface streets to mostly highway. I-80 is notoriously congested and I wanted to strategically plan my commute to avoid as much traffic as possible.

I started by watching traffic online and then found Traffic.com, where I could create custom drives and receive alerts, etc. Pretty cool...but I wanted a way to SEE traffic trends, so I designed a way to get data from Traffic.com and to then display that data in a graph.

Traffic.com offers a RSS feed, so my plan was to use data from that feed to generate the graphs. So, I signed up at Traffic.com and created two custom drives; "Home to Work" and "Work to Home". Next I created a database and tables to hold the data:

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I stumbled upon a PHP framework called Kohana, which is based on CodeIgniter. I've used CI a bit in the past and thought I'd give Kohana a whirl. I downloaded the latest code and tried to run it on a Windows XP machine.

Well, when I brought up the site, I got an error:

Fatal error: Unable to locate the requested file, log.php in <system_path>/system/core/Kohana.php on line 408

After a lot of digging, I found that there was a glob() call that was not behaving correctly. I narrowed it down to what I believe to be a bug in PHP with the glob() function, using the GLOB_BRACE flag, and using a pattern that includes a colon (as in {c:/firstFolderToCheck,c:/secondFolderToCheck}).

Assuming it turns out to be valid, I'm surprised that it hasn't been found/reported before...

I've decided to take another shot at updating my site and starting a blog...

I've chosen WordPress and while I'm trying to create/find a design, I'm just going to use this "default" theme.

This site will mostly be used as a place to store code I'm writing/testing, but I'll also be adding various anecdotes about work, family, technology, etc...