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Databases and Classes Oh My...

Lately I've been on this crazy database design and class development kick. I've been developing classes and designing databases in PHP for the last couple of days and have been enjoying it way too much for my own good. phpMyAdmin is an invaluable tool and greatly decreases the amount of time necessary for creating tables in MySQL. I finished up the design and development of the databases and classes for most of Reslife's new intranet and a side project I am working on for a friend of mine. Good day so far and it's still early.

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Database Class [PHP]

Just finished developing a really simple database interface class. I figured any abstraction I could put between me and the database would allow me to use a uniform system throughout my programs and not have to worry about if even the library I'm using to access the database changed. Now I can rest assured that any programs I move forward developing will have a database library that will always be backwards compatible.

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Access Podcast Management Tool

Working on creating a simple podcast management utility for Resurrection Life Church's college aged ministry, Access. In my mind this should be a simple tool that will easily allow you to add, remove, or edit items to/from an RSS feed. My plan is to store all of the stories in a simple MySQL database and generates the .xml file using a simple PHP function. Shouldn't be a hard project at all.

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Finished with development on the Imajin webpage frontend, now I'm on to developing a simple PHP database interface class to use with some other projects.

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Finished up the Eden Gardens webpage yesterday as far as functionality is concerned. The content still isn't there, but that's not on me. Now trying to finish up the Imajin homepage... I need to work on using more abstraction so this process goes a little quicker. Just something to think about.

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Pixastic.js

I have been playing around with the pixastic.js javascript image manipulation library lately and really enjoying the results. The need for an image manipulation library arose when I needed some image effects to happen dynamically on the Imajin Products homepage that I am currently developing.

I needed some way of dynamically putting a grayscale filter on an image on hover over and I was up in the air between processing.js and pixastic.js. I decided on pixastics.js because I read somewhere that processing.js was not specifically designed for image manipulation and I figured I would go with the more specialized one because I figured would have more image effects and be more efficient.

So far it has turned out to be very simple to use, and the documentation is very easy to read and follow. Definitely been a good choice.