If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. ~Abraham Maslow WordPress has been very good to me for the blogging and social media sites that I’ve worked on lately. Now, I have a commercial project not related to social media; my plan was to use WordPress as the
Yesterday I took my second swing at learning Ext JS 4.1 and spent 5 hours on their MVC tutorial. First, I’d like to point out that while their naming conventions and directory structure conventions are highly organized, look at the files you create during the tutorial. You have the following files open in your editor:
It’s only once you start developing your web app and have passed the point of “Will it work” do you start to consider icons. Having nice icons used appropriately is one of the things that differentiates professionally-built sites. While it is worth paying for icons, its also nice to start with free ones. When you
Despite having made the decision to go with ExtJS as my core framework, looking at the MooTools Demo page is making me consider whether MooTools can work in harmony with ExtJS, at least in limited areas. Drag.Cart The first thing that got me excited was the Drag and Drop Cart. It looks slick and exactly
It has been a multi-hour struggle today to get working Facebook Like buttons on photomagic.biz. There are at least 5 plugins, that all fail to a greater or lesser degree – mostly greater. We’re using a child them of Twentyeleven. The only real changes to the child are reductions is padding and margins. It doesn’t
At some point I’ll be looking for the ability to create diagrams, not just pictures, using Javascript. These need to include the ability to capture topology and make image maps. I don’t think any of these meet all those requirements but they appear to be a good starting place. We need to start with the
I’m learning Javascript. Actually, I’m re-learning. First I learned it as a copy-and-paste language without real understanding because, after, Javascript isn’t a real language. Reading Javascript: The Good Parts is convincing me otherwise. Also, I’m finding that my ignorance of the language is hindering my use of certain libraries, first and foremost being Ext4Js. When