Migrating from Smarty to Flexy
Templates are a great way to separate business logic from page layout in web applications. Smarty (LGPL) and Flexy (PHP License) are two great, mature templating libraries for PHP. Flexy is the younger and faster of two, so there is a tendency to migrate installed Smarty implementations onto it. Migrating the PHP Engine Declaration Smarty: [...]
Utilities for Windows I
Hard Drive Cleanup WinDirStat is an excellent utility for visualizing your used disk space and drilling down to files that you can clean up, back up, and delete. It’s similar to SequoiaView and Steffen Gerlach’s Scanner, but even more powerful. You can drill down through a folder tree as well as highlight filetypes in the [...]
Choosing colours
One of the tricky things in web design is picking the right colours. They need to be easy to read, not grim, not flashy, yet somehow distinctive. Often, taking a stab in the dark and then tweaking a screenshot of the result for saturation, contrast, and the like can be very effective. At other times, [...]