Archive for October, 2006

Getting to grips with PEAR Quickform and Smarty

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Over the past few months, we have done a number of projects using the php Smarty package. Smarty is a fantastic templating engine which is quite easy to use and is extremely powerful. It also enforces the distinction between presentation logic and application logic and provides a great deal of flexibility when developing.
On our most […]

Web, Code, Open Source, php | No comments

Roll the snowball

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Enough discussion and do something! It seems that we can all get involved in protracted discussions and meetings about an idea but never get going with actually working on it. Anyone else have this problem?
Once you’ve started you need to keep the momentum going. One of the sayings here at Technovated is “Roll the […]

General | 2 comments

The missing business model

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

This is a slight continuation on Gareth’s earlier post on monetisation.
I happened to be reading a post by Demian at PHP Kitchen about a recent interview with Paul Graham.
Paul makes the point that you have to have a business model “eventually”. He goes on to say that it is far more important to build […]

Web 2.0, Business | 1 comment

The monetisation (revenue model) of user generated content?

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

Let’s face it shall we - no one creates something and then gives it away for free, expecting no return. I mean, as much as we’d like to do stuff and give it away for free, in the interests of making the world a better place, the unfortunate reality is that we all have to […]

Web 2.0, Business, Software, Blogging | 8 comments

The value of semantically correct XHTML, without using tables

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

Ok, so I am going to use my revamping of the dating site as another topic for this post. As I identified in the previous post, we have inherited the code from a previous developer and are making improvements to the site.
The previous site was almost completely table based - yuck!! Dan Cederholm […]

Design, Development, Code, Web Standards | 1 comment

The importance of good commenting

Monday, October 9th, 2006

We have been working on updating a cool dating website (well at least I think that it is cool ), to make it meet some of the new web 2.0 standards. The project involves revamping the original site, so we have inherited the previous code from the initial developer. I have been trying to […]

Web 2.0, Development, Code | 3 comments

Another milestone almost licked!

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

Guy Kawasaki talks about MAT - Milestones, Assumptions and Tasks in his book, “The Art of the Start“. I’ve personally found it a great way to keep focus on what you’re doing day to day, instead of getting lost in the bigger picture.
Anyways, today we came another step closer to one of our major […]

Web, Business, Software, Code, Chronos | No comments

Second paying blog implementation in the UK

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

We’ve just deployed our second blog for a paying customer (as in, not personal, friend, barter, family, sports club, church or freebie), based here in London.
I’ve personally done more blog implementations than I can remember, but somehow this one is sweetest so far - all the knowledge I’ve accumulated over the years made […]

Blogging | No comments

Do you want a free hug?

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

This is simply brilliant. I love to see people breaking the mould in what can be a very cold and unloving world. A bit of unconditional love goes a long way and warms the heart.

Give someone a hug today!
Hat tip to Dex

Fun | 2 comments

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