Zend Framework and the New Hybrid Designer
by nicklo |
7 comments | Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Having a background in design, I’ve always felt a bit of a fake discussing web programming, however, the fact is that more and more designers are demonstrating that the whole left brain versus right brain, creativity versus logic idea is not as clear cut as is too often portrayed. While a good sense of aesthetics is important, it does not in itself directly equate to a well designed product. This is particularly true with web design, as a recent Web 2.0 Expo session entitled “The New Hybrid Designer” put it; “modern web design requires the coding savviness of a developer coupled with the aesthetics and user awareness of a designer”. In this article I’d like to expand on an idea, put forward in that session, that choosing a decent platform or framework can provide an easier route into more productive development. The article is targeted at readers who already have experience working with PHP and are eager to improve their skills but don’t necessarily have the background to know what they should be learning.
Decorating with External Data
by nicklo |
0 comments | Wednesday, September 27, 2006
While working on a project I realized one particular solution was a pretty good way to demonstrate the decorator design pattern together with some of PHP5's features, including abstract classes, interfaces, type hinting, the final keyword and the visibility of properties and methods. This article is intended for those of you who, like myself, are moving from object-oriented programming, including some use of design patterns, in PHP4, to the more complete object model of PHP5. Part of the reason for writing it, was to get to grips with most of these concepts myself, I had also wanted to demonstrate an example of the use of the decorator that involved interaction with an external data source.
Member Profile: Nick Lo
by nicklo |
0 comments | Friday, September 15, 2006
I'm one of those cross-breeds between designer and programmer that is either multi-skilled, or not very good at a lot of things, depending on the way you look at it. Since I'm a partner in Ingredients, a web design and development business in a non-urban part of Australia, being multi-skilled is really a necessity. I began working professionally as a designer in 1990, began web designing in 1998 and PHP programming in 2000.
If you found whatever it was that led you to read my profile interesting, you're welcome to read more on my notepad.
