A couple days with backbone

Posted by Mitch Viner on 3 February 2012 | 0 Comments

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At the beginning of the week I started looking into the various Javascript frameworks that are designed to help provide more structure to your javascript applications. Namely Javascript MVC, Backbone, and SproutCore. After reading through the docs, looking at the examples, and just alot of general reading on each framework, I ultimately decided to go forward using Backbone.js - Why is a topic for another post...

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Removing Entities in Doctrine2

Posted by Mitch Viner on 12 January 2012 | 0 Comments

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Removing entities in doctrine2 is concpetually and easy process. I'm referring to removing the actual model class and the physical php file. I just had to remove a few of them from my application. I thought, easy, I'll delete the file, drop the table, remove any references in my other entities and clear the cache and I should be good to go So needless to say, I was surprised to get an error saying that the ClassMetadataFacrtory.php file could not find one of my entities on line 223.

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Code Sample: HTML / CSS

Posted by Mitch Viner on 5 January 2012 | 0 Comments

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For an HTML / CSS code sample, just view the source of this website. It uses the HTML5 doctype, modernizr.js for older browser support, and is powered by SilverStripe. I authored all the css, using Paul Irish's HTML5 Boilerplate as a starting point to get the compatibility with older browsers. The mobile version of the site is done just by using CSS Media Queries and including a seperate stylesheet for mobile.

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Updates

Posted by Mitch Viner on 3 January 2012 | 0 Comments

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Just wanted to talk real quickly about some updates I made to my site today. Nothing too major, just putting some of the finishing touches on the site construction itself before turning my focus towards building the actual content.

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