I am a PHP web developer, looking for contract web development work using my skills in Drupal, PHP, and Javascript/JQuery. If you like what you see, or have questions, contact me.
Michael Cole
PHP and Java have both been huge on the web. Where PHP has succeeded by being easy to deploy, Java has succeeded with enterprise level development tools.
The Drupal Quickstart project was my contribution to open source and Drupal. It's a downloadable PHP development environment, built on VirtualBox with a variety of tools already configured. PHP debugging and performance profiling out of the box.
Tags: Quickstart
Michael Cole
I did this site for Molly, my made up massage therapist as a prototype. Drupal 7 quickly showed it's limitations, and I am currently rebuilding the site in Symfony2.
Michael Cole
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ocal Austin company wanted to make a fitness website for kids. Using custom heartrate monitors to guage fitness levels in gym class, we built the spirit system.
Done in Drupal 7, leveraging Page Manager, Views, and CCK, with client-side graphing done by the Highcharts Javascript library.
I was the lead developer and UI designer until I rolled off the project.
Michael Cole
Sometimes it's the simple things that make a difference in productivity.
Working with Drupal 7 has been amazing, but one things that bugged me is out-of-the-box, phpmyadmin just shows [BLOB - 14B] for some data in tables.
Michael Cole
There are several ways to do this if you have seperate web directories for http and https:
1) Use an index.html with a forward header
2) Use an index.html with a forward javascript
But, if you are using the *same* web directory, how can you do it?
Use an .htaccess file and mod_rewrite
Michael Cole
So, you want a website, but where do you start?
There are lots of different kinds of websites out there, from giant amazon.com's to my little blog. If you have a killer idea for a website, or just want something "decent" where do you start?
Here are some tips for non-technical professionals to get started.
1) What is your budget?
Michael Cole
"Goats are led, sheep are driven."
There, I said it. Google's search didn't list it, but it needed to be said. I was looking for an attribution, but it's going to have to be anonymous.
It's a proverb about motivation. Sometimes we're dealing with goats, sometimes with sheep. It's good to know the difference. Turning goats into sheep is easy and often unconscious. Turning sheep into goats is hard work, but possible.
Michael Cole
Hi, I made this for myself, and thought someone else might be interested.
It's an automated install bash script for a Sympal ready lamp server, based on Ubuntu 9.10.
#!/bin/bash
Michael Cole
Subversion is awesome, but it's command line interface is "non-intuitive". Here are some short-cuts I created to remember the commands. The most useful are:
- svn_add_all [folder] - svn add any files not under version control
- svn_revert_all [folder] - revert any changes to folder recursively
- svn_ignore [folder] [pattern] - add the pattern to the folder's ignore list