Preamble: This series of articles deals with providing a generic model class for use in the Zend Framework.
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Processing… in Javascript
John Resig (of jQuery fame) has released 10 days ago a Javascript implementation of Processing, a Java based visualization language. Continue reading Processing… in Javascript
Simple Javascript Cache
Modern web-sites and web-application make heavy use of Javascript to improve the user experience. To further improve the user experience, I’d like to propose a simple caching mechanism.
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Making A Living
If you’d taken the time to read my About page, you might know that I’m one of the co-founders at the Internet start-up Octabox. Octabox however is not a source of income for the time being, as its still under-development and self-funded.
That means that we, Octabox founders, have to earn our keep in other ways.
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PHP CMS packages are bad, mmkay?
Something that keeps bothering me is how badly written the major CMS packages for PHP are. Yes, I’m talking about wordpress and drupal amongst others, that are so insanely popular but are just as insanely procedural hack-fest mess.
Lets get this out of the door – I’m an Object Oriented guy. I strongly believe OO methodology to be superior in so many ways to procedural code. Given that, I have seen procedural code that is very neatly organized (almost to the point that it emulates OO standards using function hierarchy). WordPress and drupal code however, is not.
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