I think of all the things I love about being a web developer – its the constant development and evolution of the technologies available to me as a developer. Just this week we have the following (proposal only at the moment) from Adobe – CSS Shaders.
One of FileMaker’s great strengths in the ability to convert a standard layout into a web page. Instant Web Publishing is a great way to get a database driven web site up and running if you have no knowledge on how to build a web site and connect it to a database.
This was originally intended to be a blog on useful tips to get around the limitations of PHP’s bind variable methods when using prepared statements, however the ‘short introduction’ got a little out of hand, so instead you’ve got a post about using prepared SQL statements with PHP (which is probably a more interesting choice of topic for most people anyway).
Just a quick post from me today, to recommend jsFiddle. It’s an online service that allows you to quickly try out Javascript ideas and share them with other developers. The mileage you will get out of this for development I (would imagine) is small – but as a learning and sharing resource its fantastic!
Recently a client requested we capture webpages for them. As a marketing company recording evidence of the exposure they gained their clients is key requirement. They had for many years manually stitched screenshots together. While cheap this approach was incredibly time consuming, tedious and prone to mistakes.
The more I use jQuery the more I realise that I really should have checked out the source code a while back – rather than just viewing the framework as some kind of magical black box of Javascript wonder (not that jQuery isn’t full of wonder of course!). Thinking about how jQuery (and Javascript) works has helped me greatly in deciding good ways to do things.
Linear Blue are proud to announce that one of our Senior FileMaker Developers – Damian Kelly has passed the Oracle Certified Professional MySQL 5.0 Developer exam. This compliments our expanding web development team where Damian will offer an excellent level of support and assistance.
Recently I have been building a system that required some interaction with Google Maps in terms of creating multiple custom markers to a map. There are many different approaches to solving this problem but I thought I would share my particular twist on this in this post.
Integrating your FileMaker database with a third party system can be complex and painful. However if they publish a WSDL (Web Services Description Language) then things become a lot easier. The integration is basically a two way conversation using XML, and is made very easy with the Web Services Plugin from Beezwax.
Shopping has changed, and people are hanging out increasingly online. Inbound marketing is now much more effective than outbound marketing to reach your customers. In particular, Google, the social mediasphere and the blogosphere are where people are. If you’re working in a business and trying to reach your potential and existing customers, then you need to be where they are!
