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Baby Steps to Great Software

Posted on: Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 in: PHP, Programming

Without given too much away…
I recently inherited a website written in PHP that uses the CodeIgniter Framework (Which I like).  The problem is that the people who used it to develop the website didn’t appreciate the MVC pattern.
Let me boil it down for you.  The project consists of:

1 Controller
0 Model classes
30 view files in the […]

Online Graph Editor

Posted on: Friday, October 5th, 2007 in: JavaScript, PHP, Programming

I got this working today I’d share it.
It’s definitely a work in progress, but I figured I’d get it out there so that it could illicit some feedback.
Until I can sit down infront of a windows box to fix it, it only works in firefox.
http://graph.machete.ca/

Machete Mice

Posted on: Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 in: JavaScript, PHP, Programming, User Interfaces

An alternate user interface for a plain old Chat System.
http://mice.machete.ca

Fisheye Calendar

Posted on: Friday, September 28th, 2007 in: JavaScript, PHP, Programming, User Interfaces

As yet another proof of concept I’ve implemented a **zooming calendar system**.
It’s an attempt to retain user context even when drilling down into the details of an arbitrary interface. Calendar just happens to be a slick demo.
Thoughts?
http://calendar.machete.ca/test/2007/11/

Why PHP Rocks

Posted on: Monday, August 20th, 2007 in: PHP, Programming

Of all the web languages I’ve had the pleasure, sik :|, to code in, PHP still feels right for most of the things I do.
For one thing, it doesn’t force me to do things in any one particular way.
If the problem space makes thinking in an Object Oriented way logical, then I do that. If […]