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Coding JustRosters – Day 1 – Setting up CakePHP
From this week I will be starting a multi-part series on the coding of JustRosters, touching specifically on the challenges and lessons learnt throughout the experience. Our journey starts on a February afternoon (02/02/2009) at 3pm. The first task that needed to be completed was the installation of a basic CakePHP install.
Installing CakePHP is quite [...]
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JustRosters – Rapid development through the use of a company code library
JustRosters is an internal project for us here at Marvel Internet Group. It is a side project that is commercially unproven and therefore a risky investment for the company. With that in mind it is crucial for us to be able to complete the project as quickly as possible in terms of both man hours [...]
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Part 4.5 – Packaging and pricing
Deciding how (and what) to charge for JustRosters was definitely a task I had under-estimated. I started by looking at the pricing for some of sites I discovered in Part 1. Of the sites with pricing listed, (I hate sites that do not list prices!), there seemed no typical pricing model. I decided to tackle [...]
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Delivering more for our clients in less time by utilizing the CakePHP framework
The process of conceptualizing, designing, and implementing web applications is a complex one. It requires both the client and the development company to come together and share enough domain knowledge to enable constructive communications about the project. To reduce the impact of mis-communicated ideas developers need to be agile, which involves being able to quickly [...]
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Fixed headers and columns
Recently I started creating the mock-ups for the JustRosters application. Part of this application is a calendar table that needed fixed headers and columns, with scrollable content area to fit in a restricted space. This concept can be seen in programs like in Microsoft Excel or similar spreadsheet programs, how the row and column numbers [...]
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Part 4 – Building the HTML mock-ups and design
At this stage of development, all the designs we had on paper were rough sketches and ideas in our heads. So it was now time for me to step in and create digital mock-ups that turned these ideas into a functional interface.
The first step was to create a simple template for JustRosters to make user [...]