She lives!
I haven’t posted in a while, I’ve just started my University placement and am currently working for GoMAD thinking designing an online coaching tool using the Zend Framework and Dojo. It’s quite different learning to use php in a proper MVC way, even trickier learning to work with Zend to get around it’s interesting little foibles. I decided to resurrect this blog and use it as a kind of dev blog, charting the pitfalls and solutions I’ve encountered on my journey, I also plan to explain a bit more about the company and the location we’re working in.
We work currently on our own laptops that the company provides, we have stands to put them in and keyboards and mices to attach, no external monitors so I’m very glad I managed to get a new one with a decent screen, a toshiba Satellite Pro A300, it originally came with Windows Vista Business in and I’ve left that on here but I’ve also installed Ubuntu 9.04 which seems to be working well.
I’m developing using the latest eclipse from source for php developers and the standard php/Apache that comes on the Ubuntu repos (5.2.6 and 2.2.11)
I’m working with Gavin a fellow student from DMU and Antonios, a DMU PhD student working towards a doctorate in fuzzy logic style.
I’m currently working on a SMART goals defining webpage, generating questions from a db, using dojox.fx to hide and reveal questions as and when they become active. Having a little trouble with decorators at the moment and I’m waiting for a reply on nabble, Matthew Weier O’Phinney has helped me via nabble so far and hopefully we can get this sorted today.
I’m really enjoying working here so far, and learning to use Zend/MVC helps lots to keep me interested.