Archive for June, 2007
Intro to the MVC Pattern
There’s a lot of talk these days about design patterns. The most talked about pattern in the realm of web development seems to be the MVC pattern, or the Model-View-Controller. It is this pattern that many of the most popular frameworks are built around. Frameworks like symfony, CakePHP and CodeIgniter enforce this pattern and offer [...]
symfony Framework
Yesterday I spent 6 or 7 hours working with the symfony framework. After investigating several other frameworks available, like CakePHP and CodeIgniter, I settled down to work with symfony and I’m glad I did. It has a pretty big learning curve, but the free book is an invaluable resource (I’m actually thinking of buying the [...]
Pagination
Pagination refers to splitting up a large result set into multiple pages. Probably the most recognized use of pagination is that displayed by Google when you perform a search. As long as there have been applications, there has been a need to paginate. Everything from long documents to search results, it’s something almost every app [...]
