Ok, hopefully these will be the last PHP websites I’ll ever build.. Yes, I’m falling for Ruby – but only as a stop-gap on my way to Scala.
Most recently, a website for my good friend Dominique Gawlowski’s new company:
And a promotional microsite for my buds at Fly On The Wall:
So, I have a fairly large-scale flash application that I want to build.
In fact, it’s the whole reason I’ve been learning all this web application development stuff. It’s the reason I stopped freelancing as BoyBlack over a year ago, and took on a fulltime job at Hello Computer – so that I could get paid to implement all the research I’ve been doing, in a realistic fashion, one manageable project at a time. It’s also the reason why I recently negotiated to reduce my working hours to two days a week – so that I can start building the next version of my application.
But now that I’m ready to sit down and build this thing I’m faced with a couple of tough decisions:
At least I’m settled on using PureMVC as my Flash Framework (whether I decide to use Flex or not is another matter entirely!), and jQuery as my JavaScript library. Read more…
Holy smokes! I recently discovered ExtJS. Wow! It’s currently at version 2.0 and I have to complement Jack Slocum on the incredibly well designed API.
So, to get to grips with it, I started building a little CMS using ExtJS and CodeIgniter. Got stuck in over the weekend, and managed to build my first ExtJS component – a data grid for picking ids from foreign tables.
It also gave me a chance to play around with the native JSON capabilities of PHP5.2
