I just came across this article in Ajaxaian where Dion Almaer rant what you need to do when you code JS for living!!! Some says that pure JS is nothing, some says that just JS cant take you anywhere. I agree partially with Dion’s thought and wants to add something by myself.
Well, you can do pure JS for living as I am doing right now. Beside lots other tasks in pageflakes, I write huge amount of JS everyweek to develop flakes as a development engineer. Beside that I also maintain the community, study JS in the user submitted flakes and support them to write efficient JS. If you neglect JS as a language, you are doing a big mistake. JS is extremely powerful and you can do things beyond your imagination with it.
I want to add some tips beside dion’s suggestions. You also need to do the following if you really want to live by coding JS.
1. DOM Scripting is a Must, but not all, simple Node operations will do.
2. Interacting with CSS is also a must.
3. Manipulating JSON is more important than XML becoz its much more flexible and lightweight to transfer your data as JSON object.
4. Choose some popular libraries and stick to them. Personally I suggest Prototype (Its a must), jQuery, mooTools and Scriptaculous. I dont like Dojo becoz it seems too heavier to me. (I dont agree with Dino in this issue, I suggest DRY, Dont Repeat Yourself. Why do you have to reinvent the wheel?)
5. AJAX is also a must.
6. Being able to write JS in Object Notation format (he he he, its JSON)
7. keep yourself uptodate by visiting sites which inform you what’s actually going on in this sector.
8. Be aware of browser compatibility issues (Its a must)
And Finally
9. Love JS
Categories: AJAX · Cool Website · Javascript · idea
I am working these days on my bangla chat portal ‘Golpo’. I am very ambitious about this project and I am trying to make it one of the most accessed website in near future (uh eh, I am overoptimistic, always).. I am adding some unique features which are not usually present in this kind of services. I have also a plan to release it’s desktop version.
I will run this project solely by me, no media or no parenting company, solely by me. Because I always feel comfort while there is no one over my head to report, a common symptom of all developers indeed. So How did I spend last couple of days? Last couple of days I was very bz with pageflakes. Its one of the best company I have ever seen in Bangladesh, really so cool.
I am currently seeking PHP developers for somewherein. Its getting hard day by day to find good developers around.
FCiCQ contributed some cool pathces in my wordpress4sqlite project. A severe bug fixed in one of my old projects. A new moderation panel has been developed for somewherein blog. I am also creating a bdjobs account for me, well, may be useless at all.
Now just finishing the book, hopefull it will release very soon. Ah, I am being a robot, a total robot.
Categories: Bangla Computing · Cool Webapps · Cool Website · Localization
September 15, 2006 · 3 Comments
I join PageFlakes this month as a Flake Developer. PageFlake team recently won the Ajax StartPage race beating Microsoft and Google. As a result, one of the most successful venture capital company BenchMark capital invetsed $5 million in pageflakes.
PageFlakes has around 18 members here in Bangladesh, one of the greatest developer team I have ever seen. Omar Al Zabir, the CTO of PageFlakes is working and coordinating the BD team from here.
I am enjoying my time with PF. Currently I am developing Graph Flake for PageFlakes which will collect remote data in different format and compose them into nicely viewable charts. I hope I can release it within this week.
Thanks to all in PF for their wonderful effort.
Categories: Cool Webapps · Cool Website · OpenSource · pageflakes
September 13, 2006 · 1 Comment
Packt arranged this open source CMS award since july. People could cast vote for their favorite CMS and The top five were supposed to be selected in first round. The first round is over. The following CMS are the top scorer and now you can vote among these five. The top three will be awarded by $5000, $3000 and $2000 respectively.
* Drupal
* e107
* Joomla
* Plone
* Xoops
So goto the above banner and vote for your favorite CMS. Voting will commence on September 12 and will run until November.
Categories: Cool Webapps · Cool Website · OpenSource
A new award scheme was launched 24th July by Packt Publishing offering a first
prize of $5,000 and the title of best Open Source Content Management System,
2006. Voted for by a panel of independent judges and visitors to
www.PacktPub.com , the award is designed to
recognize and reward outstanding achievement in a high quality and highly
competitive marketplace.
Packt Publishing is currently looking for people to nominate their
favourite Content Management System at www.PacktPub.com/award. The five
projects that receive the most public nominations will go through to a final
round of voting, with a panel of judges and votes from users deciding who
receives the $5,000 prize.
For more information about the Packt Open Source Content Management System
Prize, please visit: www.PacktPub.com/award
Now Its time to Bring some Great Open Source CMS Up.
Categories: Cool Website · Review · wordpress
Yesterday I got an invitation from vox team, the new blog engine from six apart network and sined up there. What was my first impression about vox is “cool!!!”. I noticed many uptodate features. Beside those cool features I also feel lack of some necessary features as well. In this post I am going to figure out some good features, some missing features and some confusing features.
You can visit my vox blog at http://storyteller.vox.com
The Good
- Integration with Flickr, iStockPhoto, Photobucket
- Integration with Amazon. So that you can search for any item in amazon and add it in your blog. But there is no place to add amazon referral link or anything.
- Integration with YouTube.
- Personalized Collections
- A lot of colorful themes
- A web2.0 look and feel
- Use of AJAX in a smart way
- Use of ThickBoxes for adding content
- Easy navigation Panel
- Very good Neighbor Management
- Role based content display
- Thumbnail Management
- SpellChecker
- Strong Search Engine
- Powerfull Tagging
- Very good photo management
- SEO
- Choose Layout Style
- Draft Management
The Bad
- No way to add blogroll
- No way to add remote (hot linked) image
- Confusing Administration Panel and Collection Management, specially for Title Management and Sidebar object management.
- You cannot display collection objects in your frontpage but title of your collection
- No Password Protected post
- No customized comment spam management
- You cannot set external link for images
- Not sure about the size of uploaded contents. No information in appropriate place.
- Cannot Modify a part of the theme
The Ugly
- No Blogrolls (Whoa!!!, you can only connect to existing VOX members)
- No Hotlinking of Images
- It takes several hours to find out where I can change my blogs title. If it is available in my profile instead of themes section, it will be perfect.
- No HTML supported in personal details section.
- While commenting, you have to type HTML codes like <b> manually. Ni rich editor for commenting.
- No Keyboard shortcut while composing, like Ctrl+B
- I dont find any link for trackbacking to external post or from external post to my vox post.
- No public theme design documentation
- No post category, everything is tag based
So far this is my review on Vox. Vox seems extremely promising and it comes from Six apart who already have a huge blog engine development experience. Currently six aparts develops MovableType, Typepad, LiveJournal and Vox.
Categories: Cool Webapps · Cool Website · Review
