The rest of my team may not agree with me, but I greatly prefer the Dojo Toolkit to jQuery, when it comes to Javascript libraries. Why? Perhaps it's because I want to justify the hundreds of hours I've spent learning and re-learning the API as it continues to evolve.
Dev Corner
🕑Oct 21, 2010 🖋John Locke
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Copying a node to a new type
Drupal provides powerful tools that makes it easy to do all sorts of changes to your web site, but one change is difficult: changing the content type of a node after you've created it.
🕑Feb 23, 2010 🖋John Locke
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Using a File Field with imported files in Drupal: Drush to the rescue!
We regularly import content from old web sites and systems.
🕑Aug 23, 2008 🖋John Locke
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SOAP, Web Services, and PHP
One of my projects in the past few weeks has been to put together a SOAP server for a client. So suddenly I've had to learn a lot of the nitty gritty details about what works and what doesn't...
While they're fresh, let me jot them down here. WARNING: Extremely technical content ahead.
🕑Feb 02, 2008 🖋John Locke
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Mythbusting PHP: 10 common myths about PHP
PHP development is one of our specialties at Freelock Computing. I've written quite a few PHP applications, some from scratch, some starting with other people's code, some as extensions for open source projects.
🕑Jan 19, 2008 🖋John Locke
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Customizable code: writing future-proof code
Before code can be customizable, it must be clear. But clarity is not enough, if you're going to be using a codebase in multiple places.
🕑Jan 15, 2008 🖋John Locke
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Clear code: Building understandable applications
Programming is an exercise in understanding a problem. To program effectively, you need to fully understand, in intricate detail, the problem your program is solving. Sometimes as a programmer you don't fully understand the problem until you've wrestled with it a few times in code.
🕑Jan 14, 2008 🖋John Locke
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Powerful code: Get more out of every line
Programming borrows a lot from the construction industry. Many programming terms derive from construction: hacking, builds, development, architecture, scaffolding, frameworks, and dozens of others. But in some ways, programming has an element of power beyond construction.
🕑Jan 13, 2008 🖋John Locke
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Fast code: Speed and Scalability in PHP applications
Continuing on the series, the next item on the list seems to be the mistake I see the most--putting slow code in loops, loading up things that don't need to be loaded, making simple requests expensive.
🕑Aug 13, 2007 🖋John Locke
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www: a technical litmus test
Josh over at Web 1 Marketing writes about using www versus leaving it off. What’s wrong with no-www:
🕑Sep 15, 2006 🖋John Locke
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On Forks
Open Source projects have to deal with something most proprietary projects don't: forked projects. What's that? It's when a person or group exercises the terms of an open source license to create a derived version that competes with the original.