Monday, 22. October 2007, 21:50:07
web applications, general
So, the Solid Fireparty is over now and I'm back home. Something like 1200 kilometers driven. I have also posted some photos to
the photo gallery and more can be found at
http://fireparty.org/lanikuvat/, so check it out.
Getting back on the usual topics, let's look at what kind of software is needed at a LAN party.
There were something like 300-340 visitors at the event, and we had various web-based systems running. I'm going to describe them a bit and some other applications that could come in handy at a slightly larger event like the Fireparty.
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Monday, 15. October 2007, 09:01:23
PHP, Zend Framework, web applications
Let's take a look at one of my biggest PHP projects so far:
Reservinator 1.0, or in other words, a very advanced place reservation system for LAN parties. The page is in finnish, but the post is not, so read on!
If you've even been to a LAN party, you might've used something similar to this system. Amongst other features, Reservinator let's you view an overview map of the event location, choose your place by clicking the place you wish to reserve, and sign up for competitions.
It also has various admin tools, such as sending email to users, marking their reservations as paid based on the bill reference number, and biggest of all, building the overview map with a very easy to use drag and drop interface for placing rooms, tables and other things.
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Wednesday, 10. October 2007, 13:24:45
javascript, web, Flash, web applications
Sun Labs recently introduced
Lively Kernel, which is an attempt to treat web applications in a similar way as desktop applications are programming-wise.
The Lively Kernel places a special emphasis on treating web applications as real applications, as opposed to the document-oriented nature of most web applications today. In general, we want to put programming into web development, as opposed to the current weaving of HTML, XML and CSS documents that is also sometimes referred to as programming.
Says it the best. Despite sounding interesting, this may all be a big waste of time.
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Sunday, 23. September 2007, 13:09:00
web, Flash, web applications
I've been working with Flash lately, or more precisely, Flex 2. Flex is like Flash for programmers (more on that later in this post)
Not so long ago, I also tried Flash Lite, which is a lightweight version of Flash for mobile devices.
What started as a tool to create annoying animations and unusable interfaces has gone a long way, and is now a quite serious contender for creating content.
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Wednesday, 12. September 2007, 12:15:57
PHP, programming, web applications
I've been working on a Content Management System (CMS) for my personal use and for experimenting. Since I like the Zend Framework so much, using it as a base for the CMS was a natural choice.
While at first it might seem that using ZF adds many restrictions, it actually isn't like that. Thanks to the modularity of the framework, you can easily replace certain functinality with classes of your own to change the way it works.
There are also many other things to consider when making a CMS.
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Wednesday, 8. August 2007, 20:37:24
PHP, programming, web applications
Today I did some research and looked up how you do AJAX in ASP.NET 2.0.
Microsoft has released an AJAX extension for ASP.NET 2.0 which makes doing AJAX enabled pages very very easy. Let's compare the way you'd do AJAX in PHP to the way you use in ASP.NET.
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Thursday, 26. July 2007, 22:34:27
programming, web applications
I saw three intresting videos on YouTube today:
Ruby on Rails vs. PHPRuby on Rails vs. PHP - OrganizationRuby on Rails vs. PHP - Changing databaseThey are Ruby on Rails commercials in a similar style as "PC vs. Mac" videos that you've probably seen.
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Tuesday, 10. April 2007, 10:42:09
interfaces, web applications, web
I recently saw a "web application framework" which copied Windows to the level of having small windows you could resize, minimize, maximize etc.
Sadly, I lost the link.. so if anyone knows what I'm talking about, post the link to the comments.. thanks. I just found it, here it is:
www.bindows.netJust like you were using Windows on a webpage. I think they had made it with JavaScript and I think it's quite a feat to get it working as well as they had. They also had cloned most of the controls you see in Windows forms such as tabs, radio buttons, input fields and such.
Someone tell me: what's the point of this?
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