Korayem/web development

From the page: "Of late I have become Addicted to Flickr. I love photography so its great to have an easy way to show your photos off. I am also very interested in Web Services. I checked out a few of the API kits suggested on Flickr but two use PEAR and the other requires PHP5. I love PEAR but some people have problems getting it working on shared hosts. Plus, I wanted to learn something new so I started creating Addicted to Flickr. Addicted to Flickr is a PHP class which aims to make it as easy as possible to use some of the Flickr API methods that I thought would be most useful (the ones not requiring authentification). It makes requests to Flickr with CURL (CURL class written by Dick Monroe) by default (uses fsockopen if CURL not available) and caches the requests in a database or on the filesystem. I know nothing about licenses and don't really care to. Use this however you want, but I would appreciate it if you would let me know (because I would love to see it in action elsewhere)."

From the page: "The ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 release provides a new Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework on top of the existing ASP.NET 3.5 runtime. This means that developers can take advantage of the MVC design patterns to create their Web Applications which includes the ability to achieve and maintain a clear separation of concerns (the UI or view from the business and application logic and backend data), as well as facilitate test driven development (TDD). The ASP.NET MVC framework defines a specific pattern to the Web Application folder structure and provides a controller base-class to handle and process requests for �oeactions”. Developers can take advantage of the specific Visual Studio 2008 MVC templates within this release to create their Web applications, which includes the ability to select a specific Unit Test structure to accompany their Web Application development.
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From the page: "Today the consumer of a Web site can be as responsible for its content, direction, and success as the publisher. Social networking sites, blogs, online photo journals, and wikis are just a few of the new styles of Web sites springing up every day, and it's just the beginning. Your Web site can offer the best content available, but if it stands in the way of letting your users participate in its growth and development, your site will quickly fall into uselessness."

From the page: "Over the last 11 years I've spent a great deal of time trying to improve client websites with an eye for minimalist interface design and code. While the minimalist design esthetic is not the choice for every client the notion of less code and faster load times always goes over well. Today, many of web applications I design and code for have a plethora of Javascript and CSS files. Fortunately, there are many options to solve this rather simple problem. Compression, obfuscation and bundling are all great options."

From the page: "Top 10 Best Practices for Production ASP.NET Applications
12 Feb, 2008.

In no particular order, here are the top ten things I've learned to pay attention to when dealing with production ASP.NET applications. Hopefully they will help you save you some time and headaches. As always, your thoughts and additions are welcome."

Specifically, I've been experimenting with building a photo management application that provides "tagging" support.� If
you aren't familiar with photo tagging, you might want to check out
FlickR - which implements a tagging mechanism that enables users to
easily annotate pictures with textual words that provide a way to
easily organize and sort them.

From the page: "Instant Rails is a one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL, all pre-configured and ready to run. No installer, you simply drop it into the directory of your choice and run it. It does not modify your system environment. See the Release Notes for a complete list of what is included."

From the page: "When working with JSON it's nice to have a generator for your language which transforms all the datatypes from your chosen programming language into the JSON grammar so that you can use them within javascript. For a lot of popular languages it's done already (i suppose) but I haven't found one for classic ASP .. so here it comes. T"