Application Design
MVC With The Zend Framework
I’ve been using the Zend Framework a lot lately and have come to really appreciate it. Today I want to write about ZF and how to use the MVC components. This post will be all about ZF itself, how the MVC components work, and getting a simple example up and going. I will write another [...]
Javascript Objects and Member Visibility
So many web developers know just a little about Javascript. Enough to use a library like jQuery somewhat effectively, but not enough to understand how to create properly structured applications. I’m not going to get into how objects work in Javascript, or how to use them, I’ll leave that for another day. I just want [...]
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 [...]
Enter The Mind Of The End-User
I wanted to make a quick post about how the end user interacts with our applications, and how we as developers sometimes get it completely wrong. Sometimes we are so engrossed with the code, the how, that we entirely forget how an end user would look at it.
