While working on a project; designing a RIA in Adobe Flex, I was using the a Data Grid, and populating it using a HTTP Service that ran PHP.
It was a painful process.
Blogs
I've had quite a lot of people contact me asking where my photography portfolio was. I've been posting lots about my new gear, and new found websites, but no proof that I'm actually doing something.
So here's the response to all of you:
With school and work keeping me busy, I've barely had time to go through all my photo shoots and send the clients their proofs.
But to be completely honest, I have a portfolio, I have about 4 different proof of concepts ready to go… but I'm not happy with any of them. I'll start working on one idea, get about 50% through creating it, and when I wake up the next day, I'll find a ton of things wrong with it. Colour, style, layout… you name it.
For the past few months, I have not been happy with her
performance of any of the web-browsers I’ve tried. As more and more sites become
Flash, and JavaScript oriented – ala Web 2.0 – the browsers have to adapt to
run those at optimum performance.
Firefox
As we religiously observed Earth Hour at the Bhadha residence, I thought I'd go for a walk around the neighborhood and see how other people were doing. We turned off the computers, TV, all the lights and had dinner by the candle light.
It was a fairly cold night, so I didn't get a chance to go very far, but from the observations that I did make, I wasn't surprised at the results.
Trying to retrieve data from a webpage shouldn't be that hard in PHP, and it isn't. I've been using Curl to do just that. It comes with tons of options and lots of help and references.
For about 3 years I've been using SmartFTP. Very clean, simple, low resource consumption, and not to mention - FREE!!!