Jason Ashdown's Blog of Wonders

I often hunt around on the internet for the latest information to do with Web Development. Most of the time it goes to my Twitter but I thought it would be great if I could start logging a collection of the best ones I read.

So if you enjoy keeping up with the latest trends, I hope you enjoy my information bites!

HTML5 won’t save the web
http://gizmodo.com/5461711/giz-explains-why-html5-isnt-going-to-save-the-internet

Facebook develop faster PHP
http://www.neowin.net/news/facebook-unveils-hiphop-for-php-039source-code-transformer039

IE8 now “most popular” version of IE
http://www.neowin.net/news/ie8-is-now-the-world039s-most-used-browser

Zend Framework 1.10 Released (and now with versioned documentation!)
http://devzone.zend.com/article/11727-Zend-Framework-1.10.0-STABLE-Released

PHP hates integers (64 bit)
http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/03/27/integers-in-php-running-with-scissors-and-portability/

For those budding PHP developers out there, you want to run your eyes over this!

http://www.mantisbt.org/

Mantis is a free Bug Tracking tool like Trac but without the SVN fuctionality.

Why is this useful? There are several reasons.

It’s a quick and easy way to log issues for any type of project. Even if it’s a simple “todo” list for a small job, its a quick and easy. Without the mess of SVN.

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Just to top off my daily posts, I have been perfecting a PHP Validation class over the past few months.

At work I tend to do a lot of registration forms for competitions, subscriptions, newsletters, contact forms etc.

So I went to the trouble of creating a very quick and easy validation class that I could include into my projects at a drop of a hat. Inspired by CodeIgniters validation class, it has very similar features. Including helper functions.

It’s even UTF-8 friendly (except for the email function). Please feel free to download and test it out yourself. Read the rest of this entry »

Recently I had to integrate a photo gallery for one of my work projects Sony Alpha, a new digital SLR camera from Sony. My task was to display both the Exif data and the image at the same time.

For this project I had to create something new which I haven’t found on the internet before. It uses the popular Lytebox extension (a flavour of the popular Lightbox 2 javascript library) combined with a new javascript plugin that gathers Exif Data for photos via javascript with AJAX. Read the rest of this entry »

CL Auth is finally in round 2 of BETA testing. BETA v0.2 offers better optimisation, new functions, better documentation and easier customisation. It also quashes some known bugs from the previous BETA.

Download or view the Documentation online.

I’ve published the first draft of the CL Auth Documentation online. I have placed it on this website so everybody can access it.