My good friend Stuart Colville has been a busy little bumblebee recently, organising the first Web Standards Group Meetup in London on July 14th at 7:00pm.
The meetup is a kind of mini-conference aimed at all web developers; standards-savvy or otherwise. You don’t need to be a member of the WSG to attend and you certainly don’t need to be of any specific skill-set or level.
There are a limited number of tickets available priced at £4.50. Yes. You read that correctly. The tickets really are only £4.50!
The speakers at the first event are Christian Heilmann, Yahoo! developer and all round Javascript guru, and author, blogger and user experience designer Andy Budd. With such an awesome line-up you’d have to be a few sandwiches short of a picnic to miss it!
To get more information and buy tickets, head over to the WSG Meetup Mini-Site…
See you all there!
The 7th July, 2005 was a great day in history; it marked the date the G8 leaders pledged to double 2004 levels of aid to Africa from US$25 to US$50 billion by the year 2010. However, it was also a solemn day in history; the date of the London suicide bombings.
When I first heard about the bombings, I was sat at my desk in the office, browsing BBC News Online. The reports were patchy and the press were obviously receiving mixed messages from the authorities because there was talk of everything from power failure on the Tube to minor explosions.
It was at this point that I realised that online news is generally not a priority to the various news agencies - we were receiving better information via the radio or from television-by-proxy (our various family members on the phone). The online news was updated regularly but due to it’s text-based nature, the impact was limited. The second problem, of course, was that within a few minutes the entire country was attempting to access all of the internet news sites and the load was slowing page load times significantly.
And then I noticed the most recent pictures on Flickr…
Continue reading “News 2.0”…Whilst flicking through my feeds this morning, I noticed an interesting piece on Boing Boing…
Apparently it’s been 10 years since the death of Timothy Leary. Man, I’m getting old.
For all those who have no idea who Leary was, he was a 60’s counterculture icon and the guy who coined the phrase “Turn on, tune in, drop out.” Wikiquote has some great quotes attributed to him.
Anyway, better get back to writing object-oriented PHP tutorials…
Following on from my earlier post, ”Object-Oriented Concepts,” it’s time we started to have a look at some examples of execution. I’m going to start with Javascript because I believe this to have widest appeal - PHP, as a server-side language, is probably of interest to fewer developers so I’ll cover it later.
So without further ado, here’s how to objectify your javascript…
Continue reading “Object-Oriented Javascript”…Object-oriented programming is still a relatively new technology in the world of web development; and, as such, some of the concepts are widely misunderstood by many capable web developers. This can be best illustrated by the recent boom of interest in the Javascript object literal.
As Senior Web Developer at Rentokil Initial, I am required to be technical lead within the team. This also means making sure the technology is understood and used correctly. With this in mind, I’ve recently noticed that many of my team-mates obviously don’t understand the underlying concepts of OOP. For this reason, I’ve prepared this short tutorial on the concepts - to be followed by more detailed posts on execution in Javascript and in PHP.
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