Tagged ‘frameworks’

So last month we dealt with the basics of animation. It generally focused on targeting single elements and having them be animated by changing their respective CSS properties over a set period of time. In this part, things will get more complicated in that we’ll be trying to target groups of elements and have each one’s behaviour be altered relative to its own situation with respect to the DOM (Document Object Model). I know it sounds intimidating, but fear not! It’s actually pretty simple, if only a little less so than what we did last time.

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I don’t know about you, but the real reason I personally got into Javascript (at least initially), was that I wanted to do animations. Animations are cool. Everyone wants to add flashy effects with the least amount of effort and with JQuery (and a number of other Javascript frameworks), it is indeed possible. Read on to see how!

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Before I continue with writing this article, take note that I myself am not the most experienced or skilled of developers. I have only been doing Web development for just over two years, and as such have not been able to delve into it as much as many other veteran developers may have. However, I have always tried to make sure that I learn the best practises from the start so that I do not learn bad habits early on. As such, I have found many routines that I have either already implemented, or soon will be implementing in my development projects, and because of this, I can tell what other developers are, and are not, doing enough of. Read on to see what they are.

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After a short while, developers will find that they prefer some tools more than others. Similarly, I have a group of tools and frameworks which I have found to be suited to my personal development environment which I use on a daily basis. Read on to see what they are and be sure to outline any tools that you have found to be helpful in your Web development projects in the comments.

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Recently I’ve been using CakePHP quite a bit, but prior to the large projects I had to undertake, because of how the projects I’d worked on previously had been somewhat small in scale, I didn’t have much experience using it in more irregular scenarios. Lately, however, I’ve been pushed a lot more and have been thrown in to the deep end if you will, of CakePHP. Dealing with topics like caching, security, and integration with APIs and vendors, I learnt a lot in a short amount of time. Therefore, I’m going to list a few of the things that I found helpful, so that maybe I can save someone some time in searching for the answers that took me long enough on my own.

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With the popularity of PHP frameworks increasing steadily each day, I thought that I could give my own two cents regarding which ones I prefer to use, and which scenarios I find each one to be ideal for.

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I started noticing over the last few projects that alot of the code I was writing was extremely similar, and thus, I wasted the time it took to write it, as I simply could have taken it from a previous project and altered it where necessary. Therefore I’ve started taking notice of what I can reuse, and made some changes to CodeIgniter so that I can share functionality among different classes as often as possible to start projects in less time.

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