Over the past month or so I have been working on a new website Gifts for Geeks, an online store selling Games Workshop and other wargames related products. Happily today it’s gone live!
Their new site has moved to use Clear eCommerce rather than their previous solution. This allowed them to have customer accounts and to be able to offer worldwide shipping on all orders.
In the main however it is the back end that’s seen the biggest changes, allowing their staff to manage the site and orders more efficiently.
It’s been a pleasure to work on the project and hopefully it will bring them even more success online!
http://www.giftsforgeeks.org.uk/
Today was Clear Content launch day! Months of hard work have come down to today. It’s a proud feeling to know it’s finally released, although our work will never be done tweaking, adding to and generally making the package better and better with each release.
It’s a milestone for Clear and I’m proud of what we’ve achieved in such a short amount of time. I just hope all our customers will enjoy the package :)
Today I attended a workshop at Warwick University in their Digital Lab building – what a place! The amount of gadgets and cool research they have going on is amazing! From holograms to robot football it was great.
The workshop itself was very good too. Titles “E Security Workshop” it was very hands on, each of us had a laptop and was shown how to hack into some websites (albeit on their local box!) in order to show us how attackers can gain access to our websites, and how to stop them.
Very informative and some stuff to think about! Would definately recommend the workshop if they run it again.
In the office today a discussion started around my blog post from yesterday (Lack of PHP Tutorials??) and we decided to post on a few forums to see if there was anything we were missing. Seems not. Obviously, as with anything, there are exceptions to the rule (such as SitePoint’s myriad of articles).
One obvious comparison was to look at a something similar… Ruby on Rails for example. RoR seems to have an air about it, even though it’s still code – lines of text at the end of the day. People seem to sex it up a bit, with nice designs, snazzy videos and commonly a mac text editor. Maybe it’s just the way RoR has come into everyone’s eyes during the whole modern web 2.0 thing, I’m not sure. I was pointed in the direction of Rachel Andrew’s blog which talks a lot about the differences between how RoR is depicted with PHP, which makes interesting reading.
It still seems that it might come to putting together some good PHP tutorials and creating a home for them!
Is it just me or is there a lack of decent PHP tutorials out there? Being involved in the running of Total PHP I’ve just spent the last few hours trying to source some good tutorials in the hope to compile a list of the best ones I can find… zip. All I can find is poorly written, out dated, poorly designed sites and boring, drab topics. Is PHP development really that bad?
Is it too much to ask for a topic that’s at least mildly inviting, a nicely formatted article with plenty of code examples and even a working demo of what’s being written about? Surely these things should be the bare bones?
If you know of some really good PHP Tutorials please comment and let me know, For now it looks like I’m going to have to have a rethink, and possibly write some top quality articles to show everyone how it’s done.
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