Ninjapenguin

Well throughout the last couple of weeks there have been a few small changes made to the site which you may or may not of noticed! Mostly this has been making tweeks to the wordpress theme in order that it may be a little more organised and better SE optimised.

You may also have noted the addition to the top right of every page, which is the as-yet nameless and sexless ninjapenguin mascot. The actual penguin I came across on istockphoto and last night a small ‘pimp-my-bird’ competion sparked off between Squib and Jess to see who could ‘ninja’ him up the most.

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Up until very recently any software diagrams I have put together have all been built through Microsoft Visio, however on the tip of a colleague I tried out OmniGraffle from the omni group, from this point on Visio can remain closed!

I love the user interface, as with most things mac it just feels lighter and stuff is generally where you would expect it to be, which makes for a nice and shallow learning curve and less of the head-banging, ‘microsoft-esc’ frustration!

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We are currently approaching the closing stages of a fairly large product at work. The application is a fully object oriented, php5 based web application which has made fairly extensive use of new constructs introduced in php5.

The project has been a fantastic learning experience and has really helped with my understanding of developing large scale applications in php, specifically enterprise scale solutions to issues such as portability, scalability, security and efficiency (code optimisation etc).

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