Quick and Dirty Web Development for Web 2.0: CakePHP, Prototype, JQuery, and lots more.
It’s been a long time but I finally decided to breathe some life back into Day In The Life of Baz. It’s been a while since I touched anything on that blog. With the whole graduation thing and the job hut and the starting a new job and moving, I’ve just been a bit overwhelmed lately. Some say welcome back to: Day In The Life of Baz.
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– February 26, 2007
I’m not sure what to make of this: Automated JavaScript Vertical Flip Image Reflection. It adds reflections to images using JavaScript. But, am I missing something here, or has it already been done? It seems to do basically the same thing with less flexibility and it doesn’t work in IE.
The only other difference that I can notice is that this is works on a page-wide basis, whereas the other script is on a per-image basis. Here are some examples.
Posted in JavaScript.
– February 20, 2007
Here we go again, the age old story. Do we use plain old HTML Tables or do we invest the time and energy into learning and using CSS properly? Duh, it’s not even worth saying anymore. Tables suck, tables have always sucked. The only thing that keeps tables going for so long is their ease of design.
Tables Bad, CSS Good… tells us, again, why we should us CSS whenever possible:
- Search Engines: I have redesigned many websites eliminating tables and placing all links in unordered lists and have seen there search engine rankings improve drastically.
- Compatibility: Remember that in today’s day and age websites are being viewed on everything from 60 inch plasma TV’s to 3 inch cell phone screens. If you assign a table a width of 780 it becomes near impossible for visitor using a handheld device to view your website.
- Accessibility: People with disabilities have the right to enjoy the web! If your website uses tables a visitor using an audio browser is going to have trouble accessing your website. Go ahead and try to use your website with and audio browser…
– February 17, 2007
OK, now I did promise you some information about my new job, so here goes. First off we need a little background information.
Sometime back in October of 2006, during my last semester of school, a Software company came to my school to recruit programmers. They are situated in Texas and they provide a Software Package for companies in Texas. They have about 85% of the market cornered, so business is really good. Business is so good that they got a new client in the state of Washington. For this client, however, they were doing a complete rewrite of their software from Visual C++ 6.0 (with all that MFC stuff) to a .NET product written in C#. So they were looking for programmers to work on the new stuff. So they were going from university to university looking for some programmers to handle the new contract.
– February 14, 2007
Ever wanted to clock your website’s speed? Of course you have. If you’re any sort of Web Developer you’ve used Web Page Analyzer in the past and you’ve probably gotten by with it. There’s a new AJAX tool called WebWait, which does a similar job except much, much cooler. I mean, after all it’s AJAX right?
WebWait is unique is many ways.
Although there are these cool features of WebWait I still rely on Web Page Analyzer for a lot of things. My first problem is that WebWait does not give an estimated speed.
Posted in General.
– February 6, 2007
For most of my real quick image editing I usually use Paint.NET. That’s for when Photoshop is overkill and I’m not really a Gimp man, sorry. And of course MS Paint, or whatever it’s called now, it’s going to cut it, ever. But what do you do when you’re not home and away from your normal tools? Well I just use Paint.NET on my flash disk, but that’s another story.
Here is what normal people do: Snipshot. Here are some of the greatest features:
One feature which deserves a little more explanation is the Bookmarklet they provide. Save this bookmark to your browser’s favorites and anytime you’re browsing on a website and see a picture you’d like to edit, click the Bookmarklet. It brings up the Snipshot website with a list of all images on the page. Just click one and edit away.
Posted in General.
– January 30, 2007
First off, let me apologize for the many weeks of no posts. I’ll give you some more information later, but basically I got a new job (yaaaaay) and I had to move about 150 miles to search for apartments and all the stuff that goes with it. That, coupled with no internet connection and being dead broke didn’t leave much time to get on the internet.
Posted in General.
– January 18, 2007
For those of you just wiping the remnants of 2006 out of your eyes welcome to 2007. If it’s January 1st and it’s before daylight I hope you’re just reading this before you go to bed or something, because if you aren’t out with friends partying, I truly feel your pain. lol.
To the rest of you stumbling upon this post at a reasonable hour I have a great way to start out 2007 with some AJAX. The Register - RegDeveloper.co.uk has a nice step by step tutorial on Developing Web Applications with AJAX - Part 1. The topics include:
They use JBoss here as a Java backend. You can try this to begin with however as soon as you understand the tutorial, it should be clear how we can replace the Java backend with something normal like ASP or PHP. Or if you really like Java then go right ahead.
Enjoy the tutorial and once again: Welcome to 2007. Jah Guidance.
Posted in General.
– January 1, 2007
Web Development 2.0 focuses on (you guessed it) Web 2.0 development. My immediate skills are in CakePHP, jQuery, XHTML & CSS, C#; in that order.
I also dabble in Wordpress, Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET, ASP MVC, and a host of other languages. Contact Me if you need any work on projects.
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