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Breco is a site built on the Joomla framework with extensive javascript and ajax front-end functionality.  It is an online product and recipe listing and suggestion engine. It has a customised , intuitive back-end for creating items and their relationships

Have a look here: www.breco.co.za

SMAC art gallery is a site built on the Joomla framework with extensive javascript and ajax front-end functionality.  It essentially deals with artists, their works, collections and exhibitions and the many2many relationships that exists between them.

The main challenge was the uploading, resizing, compressing and displaying of the works of art. I modified an existing resize/compression Joomla component and allowed the client to choose whether an image can be displayed portrait or landscape.

Have a look here: www.smacgallery.com and visit the gallery, very cool space.

Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo.

Even after using PHP for years, we stumble upon functions and features that we did not know about. Some of these can be very useful, yet underused. Not all of us have read the manual and the function reference from cover to cover!
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Building a social network isn’t an easy task, let alone a successful one. As developers our job is to create, build, and bring to life the gears and functions of a social network. When it comes to marketing, well that’s a different department in most cases. We build then later deploy, and in order to develop a highly efficient and functional social network we’ll need to use a few tools.
Most developers are switching from building networks from scratch using PHP to highly-customizable social network platforms that give way to flexibility. Read more …

When you use a site like Gmail, you have to decide: Do I want to use the service’s website, or do I want to use it through an app, like Outlook? Here’s how to get the best of both worlds. Read more…

Google, the world’s largest search engine and the owner of the world’s largest online advertising platform, has been granted a major U.S. patent for “determining and/or using location information in an ad system.” In other words, Google now owns a key patent for location-based advertising.  Read more…

“Using JavaScript has become increasingly easy over the last few years. Whereas back in the day we needed to know the quirks of every browser, now many libraries such as jQuery, YUI, Dojo and MooTools allow someone who doesn’t even know JavaScript to spruce up boring HTML documents with impressive and shiny effects. By piggy-backing on the CSS selector engine, we have moved away from the complexity and inconsistencies of the DOM and made things much easier.” Read more…

The results of the PHP Programming Innovation Award of 2009 were computed and the winner is Sam Shull.
This article presents an interview with Sam, so we may learn more about him and his work with PHP.

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I love Mac apps, especially for their attention to detail. CoreAnimation makes it so easy to create useful and eye-pleasing effects. Quicksand aims at providing a similar experience for users on the web. Quicksand works by comparing two collections of items and replacing them. It’s that simple. Advanced demonstrations include custom jQuery code to achieve some of the goals, like sorting or making Ajax calls. Read more…

“Yesterday, in a session on ‘Mobile Communications 2.0′ at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Facebook’s VP of User Growth, Mobile and International Expansion Chamath Palihapitiya shared the social networking giant’s current mobile strategy and its plans for the future.” read more…