CustomWebsitesForYou Blog

I’ve been so busy…

Michael — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 06:38:06 +0000

That I find it hard to take the time after working on other’s websites backend and such, to come home and get excited about making my websites more interesting… Well, there’s a new design in progress. It’ s going to be cool… But for now, I just added a new gallery to one of my sites. I picked up a great camera and I’m amazed at how awesome the pictures that it turns out. Almost makes me feel like a photographer Well, I’m hoping I’m not so busy with clients that I don’t have time to work on my sites. Although, if I am, that means I’m making money and being productive, so that’s not all bad

Check out my pics if you’re interested click here

2011, what a year for advancing my web related skills

admin — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:09:03 +0000

I’ve been so busy with projects that I haven’t had time to devote to this site. I developed a sophisticated RMA PHP web application in Yii with a MySQL database back-end for a client. It needed it’s own custom CMS for customers and back-end admins to be able to leave each other notes and resolving issues with clients. Also created an administrative back-end to permit easy maintenance of RMAs from both the back office as well as another for warehouse personnel to receive returns and order fulfillment. The system had to be wizard like and easy to use with client side validation to keep the work down on the server side. It was a lot of work, but I did it in such a way that there is internal tracking so if there are questions about an order, analysis can be done to see what the customer was doing, what browser etc. This leads to a quick resolution to any issues that occurred during testing phase.

This is only a small part of what I’ve been doing, but it’s an example of the sophistication that’s available working with me.

Happy Holidays

I Jailbroke (past tense of Jailbreak right?) my Iphone 4 this weekend

Michael — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:05:13 +0000

I am really pleased with the result. I was so tired of my Apple controlling MY Iphone 4. My Motorola Q, seems like 10 years ago, allowed me to have custom sounds for text messages and email notification. Had Apple just given me that, I’d not done it, but seriously… I am so tired of being at a Starbucks and hearing someone else’s Iphone text message sound and my impulse is to reach for mine because I want to be “sure” it wasn’t mine. What a pleasure it is. Since then, I’ve themed it (changed the icons for the home page etc)

I was a little nervous about it, and it took me some time to be sure to do it right, but I’m very pleased with it.

I still have all of my apps, access to the Apple Store, everything is the same, just now I have MORE. Would recommend it if you’re a techie. If not, I’d probably skip it. It’s not trivial.

Yay.

Looks like I’m learning Yii from now on. It’s great!

Michael — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 04:34:59 +0000

Added a New Demo Page to start showing off little tricks that I have the time to show.

I love learning… I’d always written my own PHP.

Michael — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:53:48 +0000

Now, I understand the power of a Framework. Yii is a Framework that is solid, fast, supported and has a lot of tools ready to use. Why reinvent the wheel? I have been writing web applications now for a while with Yii, and I’ve been reading comparisons that more experienced framework users have written and the consensus is that Yii is the fastest, most efficient one out there at this time. That, and it takes advantage of my comfort in general with PHP and MySQL. It’s a great tool for me. I hope I have time to create a Web app or three soon (that isn’t under NDA), so I can demonstrate some of the things I’ve learned to do. I think once do that, I may have to get ready to work a lot more hours in the day because people will want their own apps.

Happy New Year!

Reworked the entire site in Yii Framework

Michael — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:03:00 +0000

It’s still a work in progress, but I’m starting to really like the power of Yii

Interesting PHP Framework – Yii

Michael — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 06:38:31 +0000

that I’m investigating…

http://www.yiiframework.com/

Another Demo

Michael — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 01:33:42 +0000

Typical Microsoft Internet Explorer, if you’re using it, don’t even try this demo. I’ll still have to make it work with it.

http://customwebsitesforyou.com/demos/ExpandContract/

Implemented a demo data table to show manipulation of data ability

Michael — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:09:51 +0000

Using PHP and MySQL to pull the data from the database (I downloaded a sample table off of the internet so it would be populated with data)
I then used a jQuery plugin to make the data sortable by column

http://customwebsitesforyou.com/demos/tsort/

Learning Some new technologies

Michael — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:24:40 +0000

Javascript is was kind of interesting… jQuery, a cross browser compatible wrapper of Javascript is WAY more interesting.

I’ve been applying little things as I learn them to the main site. Sections that appear based on a timer which I could have easily made appear as people clicked things, but thought this was interesting.. Also, click the images on the bottom or check out the images on me jQuery Photo Gallery demo.

Becoming proficient implementing the Model View Controller architecture using PHP

Learning how to use Smarty for PHP

http://www.smarty.net/manual/en/what.is.smarty.php

Demo of some Smarty output

http://customwebsitesforyou.com/smarty1/