This will be my stash of links to great articles on web development, management, etc. Starting off small.
Confoodoolized
Flying out tomorow for Confoo. This is my first time in Canada, and first time at ConFoo. I’m totally pumped, there seems to be some fantastic talks planned. I’ve figured out my planned schedule (for now…for a couple of the flat ones I might switch it up): http://confoo.ca/en/YI7CnHGS
Introducing mr. and mrs. design pattern
The first chapter of Head First Design Patterns is titled “Intro to design patterns” . Here are some gems I like:
- “The best way to use patterns is to load your brain with them and then recognize places in your designs and existing applications where you can apply them” (p. 1)
- “No matter how well you design an application, over time an application must grow and change or it will die.” (p. 8 ) Continue reading “Introducing mr. and mrs. design pattern”
Getting my head in the game
So I just got a copy of Head First Design Patterns, an O’reilly book by Eric & Elisabeth Freeman (and apparently Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates). As I’m looking at this thing I’m actually quite excited to read it. I’ve had a pretty basic grasp of design patterns over the years (and made some minimal use of the factory pattern). The time has come, however, to firm up that knowledge and get comfortable with it.
SO, in an effort to keep myself motivated I’m going to blog about it as I go (maybe this will turn me into a blogger…doubtful). Continue reading “Getting my head in the game”
How service draws us closer to the Lord
In a BYU devotional in September 2009 President Monson gave a wonderful talk entitled “principles from prophets”. During the talk, he recounted the following story:
President McKay was a man of many attributes, but one which stands out is that of consideration. He was always considerate of others. Let me illustrate. I was in his office on one occasion prior to my call to the Twelve. I did the printing of his books, as I did for many of the other Brethren. On that particular occasion I noticed a painting on the wall, and I said to him, “President McKay, that’s a lovely painting. Is it a rendition of your childhood home in Huntsville, Utah?” Continue reading “How service draws us closer to the Lord”
datetime
A nice article on using the datetime class in PHP as opposed to the straight date function:
http://ditio.net/2008/06/03/php-datetime-and-datetimezone-tutorial/
SQL Buddy – a phpmyadmin replacement
I haven’t even tried it yet, but ANYTHING has to better than phpmyadmin. That app is as antiquated and full of security holes as it gets. And yet it still is standard w/ LAMP installs and most webhosts (including this one).
Follow up: After trying this out I have to say I am not impressed. It looks very nice (which is something phpmyadmin suffers from), but functionality wise it throws user-friendly design out the window. It was buggy when I tried it. I’ll suffer w/ phpmyadmin when I’m forced to use it, and use sequelpro/sqlyog whenever possible.
Unit testing
See the below for an intro to using phpunit (granted this is a bit old and out of date, but it gets the point across).
View more presentations from Sebastian Bergmann.
Textmate = awesome
I’ve begun using textmate more regularly lately, for all my HTML, CSS, and now some PHP edits (though I still prefer netbeans for PHP). My increase is due largely to the following article:
Resources – 16 Of The Best Textmate Plugins, Bundles & Themes
And from that the following bundles:
- minimal design html
- minimal design css (for both of these, see an introductory how-to-use video here).
- jquery bundle (still getting used to this bundle)
- wordpress bundle (just now trying this bundle)
Its the fastest development tool I’ve ever used…I look forward to working in it every day!
Easter actions
Grandma hid easter eggs throughout the yards, and in some was a slip a paper with instructions on what the grandkids could do to earn a special treat. Here is what they did.
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