Codemash - Bull session with ideacore and giftsforengineers
I had a chance to have a fun discussion with Dave Kroondyk, Adam Lumsden and Elizabeth Naramore about web development, ecommerce, project management, content management systems, shark dissection, PHP, Mozilla's Weave project, general MIchigan awesomeness and some other topics. I was a bit closer to the mike than I should have been, but worse things have happened. Enjoy the eternal optimism of youth distilled in to 45 minutes of listening pleasure.
- GiftsForEngineers.com
- Gifts For Engineers - shouldn't need any more description!
- IdeaCore.com
- Dave and Adam's generous and benevolent employer.
- Mozilla Labs
- Home of Weave project
- Joomla
- Joomla CMS
- Hanselman.com
- Scott Hanselman gave a Codemash keynote and is awesome (he even told us so himself)
- PHPWomen
- A place for women in the PHP community
Comments
Paul M. Jones says on Jan 11, 2008 @ 12:19 PM:
At or about 36:50, the hosts get their story horribly wrong.
I did not write a book about Smarty, Hasin Hayder did. My blog post was about *his* emigration from Smarty-land; the "this guy" link at the top of that post links to Hayder's blog post.
Not only have I *not* been a Smarty user for some years now, I developed Savant (three versions), Zend_View, and Solar_View as responses *against* the Smarty way. To call me a Smarty user is the furthest thing from the truth.
And to answer your speculative comments: no, Solar does not use Smarty.
Source links:
http://paul-m-jones.com/?p=273
http://phpsavant.com
http://solarphp.com
Elizabeth naramore says on Jan 11, 2008 @ 03:54 PM:
Paul - We were just making sure you were paying attention :)
Adam Lumsden says on Jan 14, 2008 @ 11:15 PM:
As a follow-up, the Joomla cart plug-in VirtueMart is free like I suspected. http://virtuemart.net/
I also came across another interesting simplistic solution called OpenCart. http://www.opencart.com/
Loughlin McSweeney says on Feb 12, 2008 @ 05:58 AM:
Hi Mike,
Just wanted to say that Dave or Adam's point (can't remember now) about Firebug having export capabilities for CSS files is a very common request amongst my peers in the industry and I think it was a very valid point which you kind of brushed over saying that some CSS is created dynamically so why output it from the browser when developing the layouts.
In fairness, if a CSS file is written to dynamically it's going to be after the page layout containers are in place - it would be AMAZING if firebug wrote the CSS file changes to the css file locally or remotely as firebug is invaluable for the laborious process of converting the designers flat designs into a functional, standards-complient working design and this process usually takes place long before a CMS or other CSS-altering beast is in place.
Really liked this podcast by the way!