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PHP: Manipulate Images with GD
I mentioned a personal project I was working on in the Comet: A Primer blog entry. I hate to mentioned my personal projects since I seem to start more than I ever finish. To let the cat out of the bag, so to speak, I am working on implementing a card game in a web [...]
Checkout Ubiquity
This video impressed me. What a great idea and use of technology. Check it out.
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
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Ajax Comet: A Primer
Comet is a programming technique that enables web servers to send data to the client without having any need for the client to request it.
In classic AJAX applications, web browser (client) cannot be notified in real time that the server data model has changed. The user must create a request (for example by clicking [...]
Getting Things Done (GTD): The Discovery
To take a short break from my recent technology research and to indulge my topic A.D.D., I spend the evening reading about ‘Getting Things Done’ (GTD). I forward an article to someone earlier this week from Lifehacker, and they asked me “Do I GTD?”. My first thought was “huh?”. Then I asked them what [...]
PHP: Text Circle
I was messing around trying to create a circle tag cloud that I would later use jQuery to animate the text around the outside of the circle on mouse over events. The base level to this idea was to draw a circle. I graduated college with a math minor and it never ceases to amaze [...]
Model View Controller Explained
According to Wikipedia’s entry on Model View Controller:
Model-view-controller (MVC) is an architectural pattern used in software engineering. Successful use of the pattern isolates business logic from user interface considerations, resulting in an application where it is easier to modify either the visual appearance of the application or the underlying business rules without affecting the other.
MVC [...]
Ignite your PHP Code
While reading a couple of PHP blogs I ran across a couple references to a framework called CodeIgniter. I decided to take a closer look.
From the CodeIgniter website:
CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. If [...]
Web Development Cheat Sheets
Doing a google blog search on PHP I ran across a blog for someone that compiles ‘cheat sheets’ for web development technologies. What great about this is they are free in PDF/PNG formats.
PHP cheat sheet features things like functions, expressions, and techniques.
Subversion cheat sheet is good to have while working with saving source and managing [...]
Use WordPress functions externally
I did some quick research and was surprised to find how easy it was to add wordpress function to pages that were external to the blog site folder.
Find the path on which your blogs root it, on the path there is a file wp-config.php. This file once reference on your external page opens the WordPress [...]
REST Client : Approaches to Implementation
I have covered a couple of REST topics previously, Who Needs REST? and Now for the REST of the Story. I started playing around with a client library used to consume rest services and discuss the experience below.
The approaches
My first approach was to create a version of the client using a strategy pattern. By using [...]
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