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Yii Framework -Final Decision
Jun 19th
I never felt comfortable with external libraries, those created by other people. Always, since my old times with Visual Basic, have created my own and until now, everything I created was good enough but… Suddenly, after I found that marvellous library called RedBean, I found my self re-programming all my libraries and end up creating a controller and a base model class for a sort of MVC library – I will post it one of these days so you guys can look at it and find out how easy is to implement that incredible library is (thanks Gabor de Mooij!) More >
Uri Class for PHP
Jun 10th
For years, we developers tend to keep functions that we find useful into our projects, after certain time they become obsolete or you move one to higher level ways of programming. Some of us, can’t get rid of the code that was once collected-created and I thought let’s see if I post one of my silly old classes what can we get out of it? Let’s make it open source hahahaha.
I propose you the following: Here is my small old good set of Uri PHP functions encapsulated into one class, I know is not a great deal but, let’s see More >
RedBean ORM
Jun 7th
I was breaking my head towards to find a better ORM approach for my own written framework. I used, and was very happy with P.O.R.K., for quite long time but, as most of us, I was looking for something that could improve the speed of my projects. P.O.R.K. configuration is not hard at all, it is compound of a set of classes encapsulated in three files that allowed me to create models in sort of ActiveRecord style and was really, really good when I first started.
Now my projects are bigger, require a lot more of database analysis and those sometimes go up to More >
Visual Lightbox
Feb 8th
This post is for those who wish to implement a beautiful Lightbox plugin on their site or blog and, unfortunately, do not have a clue about Javascript and/or jQuery and/or Html.
VisualLightBox is a free application that helps you easily generate online photo albums, lightbox gallery with a nice Lightbox-style overlay effect, in a few clicks without writing a single line of code.
Just drag&drop your photos to VisualLightBox wizard window, press “Publish” and your own css web site album with beautiful LightBox effects will open in the browser instantly! No css, image editing, javascript, html coding, just a click to get More >
Php Frameworks
Jan 26th
I decided to jump over the MVC (Model View Controller) pattern and on one of my linkedin groups I drop a question:
Which one is best?
A huge amount of PHP programmers started to join this discussion writing their personal PHP Framework tastes, providing me with a huge list of Frameworks I would like to share with you. I don’t say that one is best that another, as one of the members said, there is no ‘best PHP MVC Framework, is whatever suits you best on your project goals’.
I know the list could be much bigger, if you know more PHP More >
Get Latitude and Longitude with Google Maps V3
Jan 22nd
I would like to share with you a little piece of code that I find quite useful in my applications. I do create lots of guides that require a small utility to find out the latitude and longitude of a business location from a control panel in order to display the maps appropiately on the Web. Here I will do my best to explain a step procedure on how to do that -once you know the procedure, it is easy to create plugins or whatever you wish to do.
Step 1First of all, lets make a reference to the new More >
EzRegAPI OCX Control
Jan 12th
Here is another Activex Control I have created on the old times of Visual Basic. This time, it easiest the tasks of a programmer to use the registry API functions of Windows.
Visual Basic was one of my preferred languages when I started programming, everybody thought that it was a very slow programming language and, even more, it was not a true programming language. My love for this pseudo-language was so strong that I decided to prove to everybody that, with a bit of tweaking here and there and making use of the DLL libraries, I could speed up the application More >
SWFUpload_0_0. Error HTTP Status: 403 Solved
Jan 5th
SWFUpload is a client-side file upload tool originally developed by Vinterwebb.se. It uses a combination of Flash and JavaScript to provide file upload functionality beyond what the basic browser provides with the <input type=”file” /> tag.
The main features that SWFUpload provides are:
- The ability to select multiple files in the file browser dialog.
- AJAX-style uploading without a page refresh.
- Upload progress events.
- Namespaced classes compatible with other JavaScript libraries (i.e., jQuery, Prototype, etc.).
- Flash 9 and Flash 10 support. (Flash 8 support dropped in version 2.2.0)
SWFUpload is different from other Flash based upload tools because of the philosophy behind its design. SWFUpload gives developers control by More >
eyeOS a ‘very close’ Web Operating System
Jan 4th
eyeOS a Web Operating System
I would like to talk to you about an open source Web application that I have followed since its beginnings: eyeOS. This application started with the goal to become a true Web Operating System and now the guys call it Open Source Cloud Computing’s Web Desktop. Even though the idea of having the system files on a server and have ‘dumb’ clients is not new, these guys have created a great tool and nowadays they even work in conjunction with the IT monster IBM.
Maybe the dreamed future of every System Administrator is near, where they do More >
Cookies on Roids -JSON Based
Jan 1st
Every Web programmer, one day or another, works with cookies. Some of us prefer to use server side cookies, others client cookies, and also both, client and server cookies. On my older blogspot blog, one that I even really care to update everyday as I do with this one, I post one class to work with cookies on the client side and one fellow programmer told me about json cookies. I thought it was a great script and that was because by using JSON (thanks David Crockford again!) encoding we could save objects and arrays of information into our good More >
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