So, despite it being a day off...I've managed to knock out another draft Joomla! site for one of the components on the project. I had the core categories and menus defined already...but I sat down and rewrote the whole site from the template up today. It isn't anything revolutionary, but it is a solid business site template. Email now sent and ready to chat with the business users on Sunday [first business day of the week here in the middle east].
It is 23:39...time to take a break!
Built a new web application server this past week. Put in place Apache, MySQL, PHP and SendMail. It replaced a server built by one of the guys in the IT Department for the company that I am working on contract with. They put a Windows XP box together and popped Xampp on it. It ran...with no emails and was very slow.
New server has the applications running as services and mail is up and running now. The new box is serving pages much more quickly and I am pleased with the work done to transfer across the hosted sites as well. This was well worth the time taken!
So spent a few hours playing with Adobe Flash builder and I think this could make a great dashboard builder. The only thing that I have a concern about is the fact that it runs within Flash player...I've never liked having applications running inside things like that. However, having gone through the build your first application within an hour - it does seem an easy tool to use and it has some good capabilities.
I think this is one package to continue playing with!
Can anyone explain how to convert ESRI Shapefiles to JSON files to me? No really can anyone! I am struggling [in the given work schedule timescale] to work out how to do it and also understand the relationship between GeoJSON and JSON [if there is one]...too many pieces of information, no concise guides and too little time to read up on the subject properly!
We are pleased to announce the launch of run4charity.net - a site dedicated to raising money for the Sadie-Rose Clifford Appeal and SANDS (Stillbirth and Neonatal Death) Charity.
Please visit the site and read about the challenge, the charities and see how you can help!
I'll be honest; I've never really developed for Android browsers over the past few years. I think I've blanked them pretty much as we haven't had access to any devices (phones or tablets). Since getting a Galaxy Note, I've been busy learning the interface and how to develop for it...and realise that I now have to add some web browser routines for the sites that we develop to work correctly in that environment. So yet another steep learning curve!
I've spent some of the day fixing little bugs for a few websites on a whole bunch of browsers...I think I will need to write my own routine library to use on the various platforms and provide it as a single file. I was amazed to see how many times I written some of these workarounds, but never put them in one place! Another task to put on my to-do list!
Current website development is nearing completion, but having done the first test, I realise that the iPad Safari browser is going to prove a difficult customer to work with! I don't have an iPad with me at the moment, so can't test the site out with it...but there are a couple of reported issues from the client! So how do I fix this? Well, first I need to optimise the site to see if they are memory issues; then I have to determine if some of the multi-layer stuff that's going on is compatible with the iPad...in particular...if the JQuery stuff needs some re-coding.
This is going to be tough to fix! I wonder if I can get my hands on an iPad from one of the other consultants here?
I've been coding using JQuery for a site yesterday and today. I was looking for a tooltip library and to be honest, have been rather disappointed with the offerings out there. Due to time, I've had to write a tiny bit of CSS to get the tooltips working the way I want, but I'm not overly happy with the results. If I can spend sometime later on this week - I will revisit and write my own.
I've been working on a web-based dashboard today and using the Dojo toolkit for the first time in real anger. I must admit to being pleasantly pleased with how easy it has been to work with this framework. I will look at working this into the usual frameworks that I use for this kind of work!
We've been working on configuring Zend Studio v9, but haven't been able to spend much time setting up a complete development environment with it as we've also been distracted with training on multilingual site development. Any pointers/comments for deploying this tool would be appreciated!
To be honest, I don't really want a new blog to have to maintain...but the company has recently set up a Google+ account and we're exploring the many different ways to make that social media site more useful.
The obvious things are attached such as photos...but we're looking at the other benefits of being a Google+ member.
This blog will hopefully contain reviews of software that we use, tutorials of how to configure or use various bits of IT and to be honest, anything else we think may be useful to keep track of in one place!
We hope you enjoy!
