I have been delving into AJAX more and more over the past twelve months or so and I came across a prickly problem recently that had me stumped for a while. AJAX is a great way of making web sites more dynamic and interesting and usable but the fact is that JavaScript is not the [...]
Custom PHP development
Avoiding “Spaghetti Code”
When I started my Information Processing and Technology (IPT) subject in Year 11 at school way back in 1991 one of the first concepts that the teacher, Mr Whitehouse, impressed upon us was to avoid writing what he called "spaghetti code". What he meant by that term is the kind of code you end up [...]
Smarter Programming
Over the past month or so I have been working on a new web site which has a lot of content, some of it freely available and some of it for members only. One of the specifications I received early in the project was that I should try to make the pages mostly static to [...]
Practice and Research
For the 3 years prior to starting work at ireckon I worked In a company developing in house web sites on my own. I was the programmer, software designer, tech support guy, system admin, SEO 'expert', tester and copy writer. I even did some graphic design work at times (although, there is no way anyone [...]
The Satisfaction Of A Job Well Done
Don't you love it when something just works? But have you ever thought about how much work has gone into it to get it to "just work"? Usually, the answer is "quite a lot" because these things don't happen by accident. When a web site works exactly as you expect it to it is because, [...]
