Links for the weekend: 21-06-08
More links for your delectable pleasure. . . .
MentalReality is the place where I, Joe Turner, get to rant & rave about all things web. You will also notice some general posts about anything else I take a fancy to, mainly Apple products, cars, and any other cool or geeky stuff.
Now a little about me. I graduated from Aston University in Summer 2005, and since then have
been working commercially in the Web industry. I currently work for top 50 advertising agency
WAA, where I get to work with many household name brands.
My main strengths are PHP5, XHTML, CSS & Javascript, although I also dabble with
Ruby on Rails in my spare time. I also follow Javascript
frameworks such as Script aculous, Moo-Tools
and more recently JQuery.
I have been involved with open-source project PHP-WAX for around 2 years, which is a lightweight PHP5 framework, which allows for development of websites in record time by taking care of all the mundane tasks for you. To go with this is a CMS (Content Management System) plugin called WildFire CMS. This coupled with the PHP-WAX PHP framework allows developers to concentrate on the the finer details of web development.
Latest Article
Links for the weekend: 14-06-2008
Another installment of some tasty tit-bits to read through over the weekend. . . . .
Latest News
Reddit goes open-source
Reddit, the social news site that publishing giant Conde Nast acquired in 2006, has made a big announcement: The site's code, as of Wednesday, is open source. It's been released under the Common Public Attribution License (CPAL). "We'll leave it to the users and see what they come up with," co-founder Steve Huffman told CNET News. com in an interview when asked what the site expected would happen. But more than anything, he's hoping users will tweak some of what they want to see changed and add new features.
iPhone in UK a much better deal than in the US
So Apple launched the iPhone 3G last night, and it quickly became clear that this launch was less about adding whizz-bang new features – 3G and GPS are really the only new additions – and more about selling (and this is a technical term) a shitload of iPhones. The price cut and the move to subsidised, traditional mobile phone revenue models (no revenue sharing, in other words, at least with AT&T that we know of) means that Apple's stated goal of 10 million iPhones sold in 2008 begins to look positively conservative.
Latest Work
Sun Flower Stays Holiday Let
I recently completed a project for a family member who has a holiday let in France, but didn't have a website to advertise it. A basic idea was given to me before starting on what it needed to do, after which a design was drawn up by a talented designer friend, which was quickly approved. From here, I set about building up a skeleton using the fantastic PHP-WAX framework. The CSS & HTML proved a nice challenge with the quite unique layout of the pages.
Automated watering: Hozelock Aquapod
WAA recently commissioned a new website for a product coming to the world of gardeners. The Aquapod is an automated irrigation system that is designed to be extendable as your garden grows. hozelock-aquapod. com was developed using the PHP-WAX framework and is also taking advantage of Wildfire CMS for administrative purposes. The site uses Google Maps for showing location of users' reviews and also is also used to give an effective illustration of places to buy the Aquapod.
