You’re reading Jeff Watkins’ thoughts about Web application design and development with a little bit of technology ranting thrown in for free.
Back a million years ago, I wrote about using Ajax to allow visitors to search my site. When I ported the Web site from MovableType to WordPress, I had to give up this feature because I didn’t know PHP or WordPress well enough to make it work.
This weekend, I put the finishing touches on a [...]
I’ve been working on a PHP-based Web site for my employer — tying together WordPress and Vanilla under an SSO umbrella — and I’m impressed by how awful the PHP language is.
In the past I’ve resisted learning PHP because it always struck me as a toy Web scripting language. And as I’ve delved into it, [...]
I’ve been meaning to write recently, however life has been conspiring to keep me mute. There’s still on-going problems with The Bean and now work has heated up and I’ve been recruited to design our new customer-facing Web site as well as provide some UI design ideas for an entirely new product. Then there’s the [...]