Monday, January 12th, 2009
Over the christmas break, I decided to get my hands dirty, and do some coding for some projects I’ve been wanting to get started for the past few months, but have been too busy to start working on. A great thing about working on personal projects is that you have the ability to test out new technologies, and techniques, without worrying about the commercial implications if you dont something correct the first time.
I knew i wanted to write some PHP applications, and wanted to take a strict MVC approach to coding them. The advantage of this is that my code would be cleaner and easier to manage.
So what is a framework some people may be asking. As a very basic definition I would say it is a collection of classes and functions which will reduce the amount of coding you have to do, which will enable you to perform common tasks. (more…)
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
I recently wrote an e-mail for a couple of guys that I know from Square Tab. It was a list of links that i have found usefull over the last few months, so I thought i would share these links to the rest of the internet. I’ve split the links into categories depending on the technologies they use.
CSS
The first link i sent over was about the user of media queries in CSS3. Basically media queries allow you to display different implementations of CSS depending on what device the page is being viewed on. E.g. you can say if your screen is 800px wide, display this otherwise display this. Its got some more advance stuff, but that was just a simple example. Anyway heres the link:
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