Dewald Botha
open source web thoughts
Archive for January, 2009
coolest guy on the internet
Jan 30th
so – in our office we have a little competition to see who can come up 1st for the term “coolest guy on the internet” in google. the seo gurus in our midst have taken to this, like a bear to honey. so hopefully someone will coin the term “coolest guy on the internet“.
who know maybe even me?
centering mobile web
Jan 26th
with all the focus being on the mobile web these days, one must have a basic understanding of how the pieces fit together before even writing a line of code.
there is a great online community which supports mobile development called mobiforge which could be utilised to answer all of your mobile related questions.
but as a start i will point out some important steps/considerations to take/make:
crossing the mvc divide, kohana and zend style
Jan 23rd
so, i’ve been pretty much a zend framework addict, ever since i coded my first bootstrap. thinking back to that countless hours trying to understand the beast that is zf, ahhh, what fond memories… and lately i’ve also been playing around a bit with kohana, which is another web based mvc framework, but definitely a bit more lightweight and easier to use than others.
there is however a bit of an issue with web based mvc frameworks, and in my opinion a large freaking elephant that no one seems to talk about. how can i call a controller from within a view More >
we be having web 2.0
Jan 20th
so – at our office there has been huge focus on breaking into the lucrative web 2.0 market.
as a short term solution to this i will show you how to make your own web 2.0 social network in no time.
the great search balancing act
Jan 14th
it’s been a while since my last post – and as interests fade with time, others jump up faster than a beach ball at a nickelback concert.
so i’ve been looking into solr the last couple of days. solr is relatively new in the arena and probably outshined a bit in popularity by other search engines such as lucene and nutch. “but why solr?”, you may find yourself asking.
Well solr has a couple of tricks up the sleave – which is likely due to the fact that its a fresher version of the old, dare i call it legacy, search engines.
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