Author Archives for mark lewis
The object in question
For all the talk of object oriented design and patterns on this blog I sometimes question my own take on objects. What are objects? What are their roles?
Most of my experience in the professional realm has been in ‘enterprise architecture’ (until recently) where layered approaches are king. Most the systems I have worked on and [...]
Does every cloud have a Chrome lining?
I finally downloaded Google’s new browser Chrome. I had intended too the day it was released and procrastinated it for two more days. I downloaded it last night and have been playing with it off and on since then.
What does Chrome mean for web developers? For one thing it means that all development will need [...]
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 [...]
