So in the past few months, I haven’t been able to update my website or blog due to lots of work. Well, good news is that because I was keeping busy at the company, I’ve been able to pick up some new knowledge in which I learned about the model-view-controller architecture. I have to admit, the learning curve is not that pretty if it is self-taught but after lots of research and practice, I’ve been able to create my own simple framework in PHP. As a programmer, learning new techniques and skills, I’ve noticed how much my coding habits have evolved over time and how the structure of my website changes over time in which when I was in the midst of research on how the MVC architecture works, I realized that my way of coding is not that far from it. Read the rest of this entry »

Recently working on some projects for my company, I find myself to use the jQuery library a lot. It is very useful for what the clients want on their website and jQuery has helped me time and again. One of our newest website we’re redesigning at the moment, as a heavy javascript-based website. Although we can accomplish the site entirely in Flash since it requires a lot of custom design implementations, and interactive controls/menus, I just used jQuery to handle most of it and so far, everything has been working so far. Read the rest of this entry »

Several times, I have found myself to work on several different projects each with their custom CMS and with custom features. Although some of these websites share some of the same features or a class object that I have already premade in the past, many of which I tend to rewrite instead of just uploading the premade file itself. Many of you may argue with me but there is a reason for this. As like any developer, when working on new projects, you tend to have more knowledge and change your style and techniques of coding and organization. I think that that is the sole reason as to why I tend to recode a new class that does the same thing instead of reusing an old class object.

Although I do sometimes just straight out reuse an old class object script I have create in the past, those objects usually span more wider in terms of usability such as creating a mysql object, or a PHP session object that handles specifically one thing but can be used in other objects.

My question to you is, how many of you out there find yourself spending a portion of your time rewriting old scripts to fit your current programming style and why?

I just recently got my hands on the new Snow Leopard and installed it onto my 2.2 Ghz MacBook. At purchase, I’ve bought my MacBook as OS X Leopard, and now fully upgraded to OS X Snow Leopard. The installation procedure was easy but took quite some time. While waiting for the installation process to finish, I began read the little pamphlet that came with the packaging box. As expected, I was already expecting only performance improvements rather than new glitzy features from the new operating system. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been a few months now that I have registered my domain name. Having one of the most common name for a Vietnamese person, I have managed to get myself to the top spot on Google when searching for my name. While many web designer portfolio website have unique full names, it is quite easy for those designers and developers to rank for their name in the search engine rankings page due to their distinguished names. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, lately I’ve been getting tired of my current website layout. Although I have a lot of projects in hand to do, there is always time I can put aside to gain hands-on experience with the new HTML 5. Because it will be the next solid version of markup language used by the most updated web browsers, I think it will be a great investment for me to put some time in reading up some articles and practicing HTML 5 on small miscellaneous projects and what’s a better way to do it than redesigning my website and coding it out HTML 5. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve recently picked up photography and have been learning quite a lot about it. The purchase I made for my Canon Rebel XSi last year was put to good use throughout Asia. Going from Tokyo, to Hong Kong, then Beijing, and Shanghai, I’ve managed to grab some nice photos along the way. Although I’m colorblind, it didn’t stop myself from capturing amazing photos. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s 2:30 A.M. and I am about to leave the United States in a few hours. I am very excited as this will be the first time I leave the country and fly overseas since I moved over here to the United States. My trip will first take place in Tokyo, Japan. I’m staying in Tokyo for 5 days, and then flying over to Hong Kong for 2 weeks and then Shanghai and Beijing for 5 days each which totals the entire trip to be a approximately one full month. I know this will be an exciting vacation for me an also a great escape from work and school for a full month. Hopefully, it will clear my mind and refresh my energy that I have long used up since the beginning of this year. Read the rest of this entry »

Object oriented programming (OOP) has been out for a very long time. Learning the basics and logics of programming is not enough for any developer. While you build functions, and procedures with the programming language of your choice, doesn’t it feel redundant to code the same thing over and over for different projects that are using the same structure, or similar in design? Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been getting some emails lately asking for a tutorial or a guide on how to integrate the Twitter API into a website using PHP. The Twitter documentation does a decent job in helping as to guiding you in the direction to take for development, and the PHP functions you should be using to make the request to Twitter. I’ve taken my time to write out a little guide on how to work with these functions, and how to make a request to Twitter’s web service using several features of PHP 5. Read the rest of this entry »