Recently I sat down and chatted with Ben Johnson, a developer friend of mine, about the workflows we have as developers. It was a very interesting chat, and he graciously agreed to let me post it here.
Archive for the ‘php’ Category
A chat with a professional developer
Sunday, January 13th, 2008Create the next Youtube clone
Monday, August 20th, 2007Howtoforge.com posted a great article yesterday on creating a Youtube-like streaming video site using Debian linux running lighttpd as the web server and FlowPlayer to play the flash-encoded videos…
Finally – updates to iswapyou.com!!
Thursday, August 9th, 2007I completed a lot of updates that were in the works on iswapyou.com today. The site search was updated to make it easier to use – instead of having multiple options on it, it now searches and gives results for everything. I changed it on the advice of a few usability experts.
Integrating phpBB in to a community site – part 2
Saturday, June 16th, 2007Whenever i create a website, i like to try my best to create a consistent look and feel for the entire site as much as possible. If you change UI elements such as navigation links when you go to an installed web application on your site you WILL confuse your users.
That said, it isn’t always practical to shoehorn your entire main site design in to an application without downgrading that applications functionality. With phpBB for example, if I wanted to use the Iswapyou main site design I would need to have two navigation bars (the main site nav and phpBB’s nav) on every phpBB page. This would take up too much space on the page and introduce more clutter than i wanted to, so I instead put my iswapyou main sites navigation links into phpBB’s navigation bar.
Cracking YouTube, part 3
Monday, June 11th, 2007Response to my previous two posts about Cracking YouTube has been amazing . Thanks to everyone in the community for the amazingly intelligent discussion that this has spawned, and for all of the high quality responses/comments to the original posts! Keep it up guys, it helps me tremendously and allows me to write more interesting articles like this.
No one has contacted me yet indicating that the technique in part 2 should NOT work by pointing out a hole in the logic. This makes sense, because…
Integrating phpBB in to a community site – part 1
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007PhpBB is definitely one of my favorite open source projects ever. Because its open sourced with the GPL, a huge modding community has emerged full of people molding the forum software in to what they want it to be. Its pretty common for people to add on their own stuff, like spam filters or ways to post YouTube videos…
