Launching your own web app - what’s involved?
I have decided to launch my own web app. The web application in question, is one I mentioned a few weeks ago and it is to be called Bean Counter.
Archive for June, 2008
Web development tasks never take just 5 minutes
Whilst working at my last agency, I received an excellent piece of advice from the then Lead Developer: “Web development tasks never take just 5 minutes”.
{curly brackets} versus :colons/semi-colons; in PHP
Current and former colleagues of mine, will attest to my intense hatred of poorly written code and by poorly written code I mean code that is hard to follow. In a bid to make my PHP code even more readable I’m dumping the curly brackets traditionally used with control structures (e.g. ifs, fors, switches) in favour of the colons and semi-colons of PHP’s alternative alternative syntax for control structures.
A simple PHP HTML/CSS templating system (REDUX)
It is beyond silly to repeatedly copy and paste the same HTML into the top and bottom of every HTML file that you create. That’s why god invented include() but, the humble header/footer HTML include file needs to be extended slightly - that is, unless you want all your pages to have the same title/meta description/CSS files etc.
Newsflash: Manchester web developer beats Google Checkout API to death in frenzied attack
Two weeks ago, I wrote about wasting my time trying to integrate Google Checkout into our top secret web app. You may be glad to hear that my time is no longer being wasted and I seem to have finally solved my Google Checkout conundrum as of this week.