Ninjapenguin

So today I got around to writing up the accompanying ‘article’ for my small wishlist application. The app was written in conjunction with the miniseries I wrote on ‘Modern Project Management’ (of which I’m still formatting the last article).

The app was used over christmas by me and a few friends and seemed to serve its purpose! (I did quite well off of my list :P).

Written in CodeIgniter with a generous splash of Mootools thrown in for some AJAX’y goodness the app is quick and liteweight and allows users to create a list, add and delete items (asynchronously) and mark other users items as bought. The app also has a built in help system. (more…)

Well it’s my first blog entry for a little while (I have a few almost ready to publish) and its going to be a short one.

I have been doing a lot of client side scripting work recently, mostly with the Mootools framework, if you havn’t heard of it then it’s definitely worth a look, it is a really powerfull javascript framework made of modules that you can pick and mix in, meaning that it is increadably lightweight when compared to the likes of prototype etc. (more…)

So in-keeping with my renewed attempt at being active with my ‘blogging’ here is my weekly update;

I have nearly finished the first part of (what I hope to be) my four part series on ‘Real World Project Management’. I’m basically using it as a chance to ramble about project planning/design strategies that I have been adopting recently, and the advantage I think they offer. I am also going to base the series around the construction of a small wish-list application by way of an example, so keep an eye out for the first draft of that!

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