I recently read an article over at A List Apart, called Frameworks for Designers. It got me thinking. Actually no it didn’t. The idea was so brilliantly obvious! And sometimes we even do it (such as using blank CSS templates), but not quite like how Jeff Croft describes the process. From a developer’s point of …
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What PHP Needs!
I’ve been thinking about the things PHP needs to remain relevant. I don’t mean to say that it is becoming irrelevant, but as many people are becoming wooed by Ruby on Rails, the way PHP is done is becoming more and more … tiresome. We like Rails because, well, it’s just cool. PHP as a …
Install PHP mb_string in Fedora
Q: How do you install the mb_string PHP extension in Fedora? A: % sudo yum install php-mbstring It’s really painless. Answer a few y/n questions (probably want to answer “yes” to all of them), restart apache, and you’re done! Also see my recent post on adding gd support to PHP in Fedora.
__CMS milestone
I still haven’t decided on a name for my CMS, though I have a couple of good ideas that I’m going to think about in the next couple days/weeks. On the same note I’m also considering a name for my company. My First/Last name works well enough, but I’d like something a bit more formal …
I never finish anyth
One of the latest tees from ThinkGeek is probably one of my favorites so far. White text on a black shirt says “I Never Finish Anyth”. Product page can be found here. You gotta admit this is pretty funny – especially if you’re somebody like me with a lot of interests, but never the time …
DFL major release!
Lots of news over here at the Digital Fish Library. We just moved the production, qa, and dev staging sites to our new servers over the weekend, and at the same time made some major updates public that will surely allow the website to grow with few pains over the next several months. 1) Family …
Anchor tags and Safari
I found an interesting “bug” in Apple’s Safari today while updating a page on Flood’s deprecating website (new version coming up in September). First of all, for the record, nobody on the team designed the template currently in-use (Aug, 2006). I just needed to put an anchor near the end of the page… pretty standard …
Mr. Fish Lite is coming
If you’re interested in the DFL project, you’ll be happy to know that German and I are tasked with a bit of a crack programming job in the next week or so. Actually, we told our boss the idea we had about making a “Lite” version of the data viewer program that runs through some …
Siggraph2006 Poster
We got the good news today: our poster for Siggraph2006 has been accepted! Look for Interactive 3D Graphics for Web-based Data Analysis and Visualization for the Digital Fish Library (DFL). I likely won’t be there for the conference, but German will – he is the first author, after all. DFL Publications.
Caching HTML Output with Smarty
I’ve begun using the Smarty template engine for my projects requiring dynamic content – you know, the good ol’ MVC (model-view-controller) approach to (web) applications. Because the sites I work on aren’t particularly high-traffic, I never really thought too hard about caching… until I actually began thinking about caching. The question is “why not?”. With …