:Programming Czar

We are going to be pushing PDT as the php ide to use when working for us. Mainly because it’s free and because it’s a plugin to eclipse it will also act as the base for adding in Subclipse for subversion access and flex builder for doing flex apps.

There is a webinar about pdt from Zend which you can watch and get an overview of the system.

I currently have this setup on my Ubuntu install on my laptop and it works great. I need to play with the subversion side to see how that works but the PHP and Flex parts work great. We will get more into this later but this is a good preview of a great tool you can use for development.

Mix this with XAMPP and you can turn your local machine into a great development environment.

Also once I work more with Flex we will also look at adding Adobe Air to the mix for application development.

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Here’s the press release ***Updated link***. This is going to be great for us since now it makes it have no cost to develop flex apps.

This will definitely be one of the things in the suite of applications we put together for students to use. I’ll get more in detail on that once we have completely set that in stone.

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Well since I have time before the presentation starts I figured I could throw the slides up now and not have to worry about it later.

Slides

Example (functional)

Example (code)

Since the PHP is processed so you can’t see the code behind it I have made a zip of the entire project and that is available in the last link.

Hope this helps some of you out.

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Yeah yeah, took me a while to get this up but have been quite busy the last 2 weeks having to get a bunch of things ready for a meeting today so I haven’t been on my laptop where the slides were.

Slides

Example

Giving the PHP talk tonight and still working on the slides to back to that

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Here is an interesting idea for making the images you have people upload look better without having to do all this in CSS.

There are pluses and minuses to both ways.

It takes more server load to do it the first way and should likely not be used verbatim from the example but should be used to create the image and saved for later use. This could even be run when the image is uploaded and stored this way. This saves the extra CSS we would use for creating the effect and running the risk that it doesn’t work correctly on all browsers.

The CSS way is nice though in that it takes no extra code and later if we want to change our look to no longer include the shadow it’s as simple as removing the CSS. Though if we keep the original OR a thumbnail for that purpose it’s not as much of a risk.

In a high use situation, you would have a separate server delivering this content. This server would not have it’s CPU being taxed so there would not be a significant issue letting that server handle the conversion.

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http://www.fudgie.org/

Granted it’s written in Ruby but I think this is a neat idea for one way to visualize things. It’s always nice to have a big visual que when something might be acting up that you wouldn’t notice normally.

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Adobe has released a alpha version of their Flex Builder for Linux. Don’t have my laptop with me tonight but will definitely grab tomorrow and install and hopefully it will be a nice tool to use on the linux side to create Flex applications.

Once I have some time to play with it I’ll try to put a seminar together to give you guys an intro to it. This will most likely be a second semester seminar.

There is a lot of power over the web gained by Flex and hopefully over the next year we will really begin harvesting it for the university and making lots of spiffy things. If only there were enough play hours in the day

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Well it requires that you have Feisty Fawn so it’s a no go for right now. This could start me on a Java rant but I’ll hold off for now

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