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Few notable links recently

September 24th, 2007

OK, these are the laziest of possible posts, but there have been a few things I’ve found in the last few days that I wanted to bring up.

  • 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails.
  • Jim O’Halloran has been blogging about CodeIgniter a bit recently, including Building a Complete CodeIgniter Application (there are several parts to this, so go read it).  Nice work Jim!
  • EE Design has started a rebuild/refresh/whatever and the site is starting to come alive again.  I wish the same could be said of the awesome Jambor-EE, but they haven’t updated in 8 months… ;(
  • glider.js is out, and looks sexy as hell.
  • More impressive in my mind is ModalBox which I intend on utilizing shortly.  Looks great, and is built on Prototype/Scripto, which is my JS library(ies) of choice recently.
  • Mobile Web Design was released, and I was fortunate enough to have EllisLab provide me with a copy.  There’s some real gold in there, and while I’m not doing anything explicitly mobile at the moment, I know this book will end up being one of those “keep going back to” texts that we all have.

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Comments

Lewis wrote on September 24th, 2007 @ 10:45

Actually, I like these kind of posts as I can see a quick overview of what’s happening in the PHP-related world.

Jim O'Halloran wrote on September 25th, 2007 @ 2:04

Thanks Derek!  I’d planned to announce the “Building a Complete CodeIgniter Application” series on the forums once I had at least the third part written, but I guess that cat’s out of the bag now :)

Jim.

Woody Gilk wrote on October 01st, 2007 @ 7:39

It seems that glider.js totally fails in Safari 3.

Also… proto/scripto is your JS framework of choice?! You should really give jQuery or Mootools a shot. Prototype isn’t bad, but Script.aculo.us is a *slow* pig compared to “newer” frameworks.

Cliff Persaud wrote on October 01st, 2007 @ 19:48

Great resources.  Haven’t tried glider in Safari yet.

Derek wrote on October 02nd, 2007 @ 21:03

Hey, glider.js seems broken in all browsers at the moment.  Hmph.

It was impressive.  With respect to js frameworks, I’ve used jquery, and am using mootools on this site.  I don’t find scripto slow at all.  But I concede that the other frameworks are very impressive.  I’ve just been spending time in scripto lately, and find it pretty elegant.

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