I have extensive knowledge of working with MVC Architecture, All custom CMSs that I’ve worked on have used this method. MVC is a great way of ensuring that all current and future developers are able to work on the system with ease, following a design pattern. MVC refers to Model, View & controller, by working … Continue reading MVC Architecture
Its been said that WordPress accounts for over 25% of the content management systems on the internet, this is why its my go to CMS platform to use on any product I’ve worked on, combined with bootstrap it enables for a faster, more efficient way of developing which in turn leads to a better end … Continue reading WordPress
I have over 5 years Bootstrap experiance, it’s an incredibly powerful framework from some of the tech guys at twitter. I’ve used bootstrap on multiple of sites, it enables you to produce responsive websites with ease, wire framing is very fast with bootstrap too. I stand by bootstrap so much so, that this site is built … Continue reading Bootstrap
Having worked in a multi developer agency for the past 4 years, keeping on top of code changes via SVN has helped a great deal, I’ve also worked on some open source projects that have greater than 10 developers, if we didnt use SVN / GIT to keep on tome of changes, then we would … Continue reading Version Control (SVN & GIT)
I moved to PDO before mysql_ was depreciated, Working with PDO has made development of custom platforms significantly easier. PDO is secure, faster to use and object orientated so developers coming from the likes of C/C# will be able to pick it up with ease. All new systems that I’ve worked on have been written using … Continue reading PDO
I’ve worked on many systems that have used an array of payment gateways including Sagepay, PayPal and World pay.
Known as “Search Engine Optimisation”, the optimisation of content in order to boost a web pages position on major search engines such as Google and Bing. I’ve deployed a lot of technical SEO changes over the years, not in the traditional sense of content writing / keyword research and link building, but in the approach … Continue reading SEO
I’ve been working with APIs for as long as I can remember, my first project was the creation of paddlersportal.com this was integrated in to the Google Maps API , It would query a database of locations based on the map view port to produce a list of nearby shops and accommodation. From this point forward, Integrating … Continue reading Google API Integration
Initially when I started writing PHP the support for OOP was limited, in a sense its still not a full “Object Orientated” system, that said I have been coding in this way for at least 4 years, I cant really recall when I made the switch from action based coding to OOP. Writing in OOP is … Continue reading Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
I’ve worked with jQuery and standard JavaScript on pretty much every site I’ve had to work on. You’d struggle to create a dynamic / animated website without the use of JavaScript in some form or another. jQuery dose however have its downsides, its made people lazy, writing jQuery is easy, pretty much anybody can do … Continue reading jQuery & Javascript