Semantics and Readability

By mike@mike-miles.com

When you write code there are two overlying important aspects to remember. First being that your code is semantically correct (else it wont work, duh) and readability. As in the ability for your code to be read and understood by other developers and yourself in the future (you WILL forget how your code works, trust me).

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Drupal Module: Yelp Search Results

By mike@mike-miles.com

I had a bit of free time recently, so I began reading up on some of the new API’s that different websites have come out with (Digg, Yelp, etc…).  When I found the Yelp API it sparked an idea for a new Drupal module I could build.

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Find a Tweeter

By mike@mike-miles.com

You might of noticed that I’ve been absent from my blog for a while, well I’ve been very busy.  But I’m aback, and hopefully I’ll have some free time to blog more frequently.  Ok onto the nitty gritty.

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My First Drupal Module

By mike@mike-miles.com

Recently while working on a drupal website for a client, I needed to build in some custom functionality.  For drupal this is’nt an issue, basically anything you need to do has been done before and you can find a module in the module directory.

But after searching I was unable to find a module that did what I wanted, so I had to develope one (Which for a nerd like me was really fun).  It took me a day or two to build, and refine but I built a module that I was happy with.

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My First jQuery Plugin

By mike@mike-miles.com

I had a bit of free time over the last week, so I thought I would try my hand at creating a jQuery plugin.

I call it jQuery.fly

What it does is allows you to create some cool animation effects to any text elements on the page, it also has a few built in effect. Useful? not really, but maybe someone will like it.

Some of the built-in effects are:

• bubbles : makes blue bubbles rise from the bottom of the screen
• blizzard: makes it snow on the page
• explosion: creates an explosion on the page
• fire: produces an ASCII fire on the page

Like I said, it’s supposed to be used for text effects, so you could make all the paragraphs on your page randomly move around when a page is loaded.

you can view an example here.

I’ve posted a more in depth description and download links on my projects page, jQuery Fly.

Working hard

By mike@mike-miles.com

Sorry for the lack of updates, I’ve been quite busy at my job (doing some major web development stuff). I’m going to try to post later this week about a PHP calendar/date class I’ve been building in my freetime (initial tests are showing that for some instances it’ll be up to 4x faster then the ‘date()’ function.) so hopfully you’ll see that later in the week