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Over the last five weeks, a significant amount of my time has been spent on developing Facebook applications. While it hasn’t been a stroll in the park by any means, it has been slightly easier than I had anticipated. Granted, there were occasional obstacles and roadblocks that got in the way, and the usual suspects [...]
Tags: CodeIgniter, Facebook, Facebook API, Facebook Applications, MySQL, PHP
The new year began with the familiar feeling the previous one did, that of worry and anxiety involving selecting modules for the upcoming school term. Despite trying to plan for the semester beforehand, complications always arise during CORS bidding with exam date clashes and what not. Besides the study break and examination period, these two [...]
Tags: CodeIgniter, CSS3, Django, Founders at Work, HTML5, IPPT, Jessica Livingston, Jono Bacon, MySQL, PHP, Python, Rails, Resolutions, Robert Pirsig, Ruby, sgBEAT, The Art of Community, YUI, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
I found some time over the last week to rebuild WebsiteDB, my first PHP/MySQL project. The original site was very simple and quite poorly coded in my opinion, so I decided to redevelop it and include additional features in the process, such as account creation (for anyone remotely interested in using it) and also a [...]
Tags: CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Framework, MVC, PHP, Web Development, WebsiteDB, Zend
I’ve been spending the greater part of the past three weeks building a site as part of my internship under Avant Global. The internship is over, but I’ve been commissioned to carry on developing it until it’s ready for launch. That time is soon, I hope, as school is set on the runway about to [...]
Tags: Avant Global, Internet Explorer, Internship, NM2208 Principles of Visual Communication
I guess my first post of the new year should be about resolutions, although I haven’t really stuck to mine in the past few years. It wouldn’t hurt trying again this year, especially since I managed to attain the goals that I set for myself for the holidays in December.
Looking back on the past [...]
Tags: Django, IPPT, Java, MySQL, PHP, Python, Resolutions, The 4-Hour Work Week, Timothy Ferriss
As I previously anticipated, MySQL has proven to be a difficult language to learn. I’ve familiarised myself with most of the basic commands used to create and modify databases and tables, along with carrying out simple SELECT queries to retrieve data. I followed the examples provided in the book and I was honestly quite alarmed [...]
Tags: Apache, Delicious, HN, MySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin, WebsiteDB
I spent some time in the past week getting started on PHP, and so far I’ve covered majority of the basic concepts. The syntax of PHP is quite similar to Java which I’m already familiar with, so the examples given have been easier to follow and understand. Another area that these languages have in common [...]
Tags: Avant Global, Internship, Interview, Java, MySQL, O'Reilly, OOP, PHP, Startup
Object-oriented programming has been the tripping stone for me in Java programming module so far, yet it essentially represents the core of the language. It’s taken me a bit of time to accustom to the idea of constructors, accessors and mutators, but writing methods for these have easily become habits now.
I’ve spent quite a fair [...]
