Monthly Archives: December 2008

Holiday Cheer

This holiday season was different than seasons past. It was fabulously different – challenging, inspirational, filled with love and cheer, thought-provoking. For the first holiday season of my life, I didn’t eat turkey and only missed it in the slightest. Granted, I certainly gorged on many of my (non-meat) favourites (although it resulted in something [...]

WCAG 2.0

I am behind the times! Over 2 weeks have passed since the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 specifications have been announced. WCAG has been a “hobby” of mine for some time, and now this handy 2.0 reference guide has piqued my interest once again. Mind you, I really shouldn’t put the cart before the [...]

Holiday Plans

I’m getting excited about the upcoming holidays, mostly due to the sheer fact that I will have copious amounts of time… at least in comparison to that which I’m used to. While many people think about the holidays as a chance to relax with a mug of mulled wine in front of a roaring fire, [...]

PHP Blather

Today I needed to add 2 of each of the following (DB tables, add/edit forms, listing pages) to an application. It took me < 10 minutes. In the past, this would have taken me about an hour and I’ve managed to reduce this to 1/6 of the effort. The web applications which I’m currently working [...]

AMFPHP

Last week, I wrote a bit on my introduction to Flex, and both John and I are interesting in learning this development platform. Now, php is my developmental language of choice, which has naturally lead me to AMFPHP – an open source implementation of AMF (Action Message Format). It allows client applications to communicate with [...]