For this weekend I am going to take a break. But here are a few articles I have viewed and read today: Google and the new Wallet and Offers - does anything really need to be said? AltLy - Now this one I find really funny. This is a supposed…
Taking another detour, because I do not want to really gather all of my funny quotes right now. So here is a good song from the group The Wombats. One of the more clever groups out there today, and I really like this song. So enjoy!
Today I am going to break from the schedule and post about something different, jobs. In this country (and I am sure around the world), jobs are hard to come by. What is even more difficult is finding the right kind of job where one is happy and challenged. Not…
So ends the week, on Friday the 13th no less. I have less than 400 words to sum up the week: Monday: work Tuesday: work Wednesday: work Thursday: work Friday: work Not really a big change or variety. However some very interesting things happened this week in other news. And…
Ok, for Friday I thought I would post a few riddles to help me wind down from the week. After a very long day of work, a man goes to bed. Before he went to bed he wound his clock and set the alarm for noon the next day. If…
With the recent events of the 8.9 earthquake in Japan, news traveled fast, and it was just not second or third hand accounts. it was live, it was real, and it brought you into the middle crisis. I do not post this to take away from the real horror and…
OK, after the long break I took, I want to refocus on the Resume/personal web application I am building, and how to integrate with Facebook using the Graph API. But before we get into the nuts and bolts of the application, I just want to go over some of the design and focus for this application.
This application is mainly a learning tool, and way to get familiar with the Graph API and keep going with CakePHP. The main user for the administration sections are going to be me. So certain aspects can be adjusted, while others should not. One thing that I can be a little more relaxed on is the input fields. I will allow certain content, but not all. Sanitation of the input data does not need to be paranoid, and I can allow other things to slip through. However, I still want to have security in the back end and allow for checking of proper field id’s and other items that will allow the form to be secure, but give me the flexibility to enter different items in the backend.
Then there is the front end. This will be the forward facing end of the application and will also be the Facebook front. We have added in comments to the application. The next focus is the resume portion. And here is where we can look at the design and focus. By design I mean the design of the application. The UI can be really anything, and I will focus on a simple UI that utilizes HTML5 and CSS3. However, some people I talk to seem to question the aspect of resume portion, as in “why do that when there are countless other sites out there that already allow for this”? That is a good question. And I am not taking anything away from Monster, CareerBuilder, or any other site. LinkedIn provides a way to post your resume as well, and provides a social aspect for it. All of which are great. Remember, firstly, this is a way to experiment and learn more, grow in Graph API and CakePHP. But look at how the world is trending right now in technology.
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For the past year or so, I have been tremendously busy and unable to keep up with the blog. However, now more free time is available to me. So starting next week, I will be posting more about PHP frameworks, including Cake and Symfony, security issues I see come up,…
The PHP Advent Calendar 2009 is going on, and it is a tremendous resource for the community. http://phpadvent.org/2009 I highly suggest subscribing to the feed, and/or following on Twitter. It is a great read every day.
Today is the first of May. There is a ton of things that can be done for May. I am working on a few special projects, and hopefully will have some good stuff out there for the local small businesses around here. I am hoping to get back to work…