by Chris Trahey, Chief Development Strategist
Let's take a minute to step back and think about why we use namespaces, and how to use them to improve code quality. I suspect there's a lingering hesitance to embrace their usefulness. Read More…
by Jonathan Jordan, Web Developer
We use Harvest for time-tracking, which is simple and easy to use. For most users the tools on the website will be enough, but if you need to create a custom report or want to share data between Harvest and another application, you can use the Harvest API. I'm primarily a PHP guy, so using the Harvest PHP library makes it even easier. This post will demonstrate how to use this to create a custom reporting tool. In our case, we wanted to see how many hours a given user spent on weekends over a given time period. Read More…
by Joaquin Lippincott, President & Founder
So you want to become a web developer? Smart move. The web is a growth industry and I don't know of any university curriculum that adequately prepares people for this career. A good web developer can pull in well more than the median annual wage and job benefits and promotion opportunity are great. So what do you need to know? Read More…
by Joaquin Lippincott, President & Founder
If you don't know already, the framework is dead. That is to say, unless you have money to burn, frameworks like Zend, CakePHP, Django, Struts, .NET, and even Rails should not be considered as a foundation for building anything but the most unique and game changing websites*. The age of the framework for building websites is gone and it has been replaced by the open-source CMS or Content Management System. In this declaration I am not promoting any particular CMS (although I'm partial to Drupal myself), simply letting anybody who hasn't heard the news that just about every website needs more than CRUD (Create Read Update Delete), a shared database connection and other simple tools frameworks provide. Read More…
by Gizzelle Williams, Account Manager
Continuing on with the previous topic of essentially “what is Drupal?” we move on to the discussion of PHP and its importance in being able to build or maintain a Drupal website. (btw I’m totally assuming that you know that PHP is a programming language) Read More…