Quantcast
Channel: George Butiri – OKmaya
Browsing all 15 articles
Browse latest View live

Zend 2 For Beginners

If you’ve kinda touched Zend in the past and have been scared off like me of the complexity and everything you had to learn about it, I would like to share my Zend 2 experience with you. I’m assuming...

View Article


Zend 2 For Beginners Step 2

All right, guys. In response to the Zend 2 For Beginners post, I thought I’d carry on and show more on how not to be afraid of Zend 2. If you find yourself frustrated with frameworks as I was a …...

View Article


PHP Frameworks Suck

It’s kind of funny. After trying to understand Zend 2, I decided that I was happier with Core PHP. I noticed that anyone can pick up any framework and learn it in a few days, or even a few weeks, …...

View Article

All PHP Frameworks Suck… Except for Mine

The thing about frameworks is that they’re built by developers to meet an out of the box solution. Sometimes, that’s a complicated piece of spaghetti code that can be used for anything, such as Zend 2,...

View Article

What Went Wrong with Web Design?

And what can we do to stop it? Standby. First off, I’d like to start with the fact of what a website is. A website is nothing but some HTML passed in from some server. That’s it. The code that …...

View Article


OOP PHP Sucks!

Update: Before you bash my head in, let me re-phrase the title… ehem… Today’s misuse of OOP sucks as much as misuse of procedural style. After considering how the web has evolved, I’ve noticed that is...

View Article

Toggle Functionality for Clean PHP

Requirements: * jQuery * Font Awesome * AJAX capabilities * .hidden = display: none; So, I decided that just controlling the front end via the back end wasn’t enough. I debated for a long time and was...

View Article

CodeIgniter, The one semi decent framework… is done

I’ve been playing around with CodeIgniter, and although I’m not a huge fan of 3rd party PHP frameworks, I would have to say that CodeIgniter is probably the easiest out of the box solution. Of course,...

View Article


Are flowcharts making a comeback?

If they’re not, they should be. Once too many times I’ve seen development go awry. It’s insane to think that you can build a full application by code alone. Since the days of “modern” programming...

View Article


Are PHP Frameworks All Hype?

The short answer is, yes. Let’s explore why that is. Who in their right mind would try to sell their framework idea by saying, “It’s slower than straight php”, or “it lacks form customization”? I’m...

View Article

Want to add image to linkedin app, but don’t have https

Need help setting up https image link for linkedin app social signin development. Continue reading →

View Article

Capistrano is useless: not as good as SVN or Git

Once again, something comes out to “revolutionize” the way things are done. I suppose when Git came out, everyone was going to jump off of the SVN boat. In reality, SVN works just as good as Git. It’s...

View Article

Package Managers and why I hate them: npm or composer

Package Managers Just Suck They suck big time. Let me tell you how I arrived at that conclusion. First off, theoretically, package managers sound amazing. The idea of running one command sand have...

View Article


Learn Web Development – The Super Simple Way

So you want to learn web development, but are too intimidated by the complexities of it. It should never be intimidating. It should be pleasant and fun. You should feel like you want and enjoy to write...

View Article

Trulia.com Full Width Map and Full Size Images

So it seems like Trulia doesn’t respond well to user feedback. They shrunk their images and added that house list that simply hides the awesome map feature we all loved in the past, and the awful image...

View Article

Browsing all 15 articles
Browse latest View live