Justfares.com Blog

So finally a whole year has gone by and now it is the politically incorrect Christmas Holiday!! yipeee! however, despite that here i am still toiling. However luckily for me i shall be basking away in the sun down south instead of stuck here in the Seattle rain.

Now that the initial phase of development is complete and the crux of the project complete we have now finally got up the blog for Justfares. What is great is Continue reading »

Helio vs Iphone!!! Helio… in 1 round!

So it seems that i have finally come to the end of my cell phone contract so it was time for me to switch. Sooooo… what was the final verdict??? i tried all them T-Mobile’s, ATT’s and what not and none of them tickled my fancy, too much of the same trash just repackaged and re-labeled. I needed something Continue reading »

PRADO Application Framework and why i switched from CakePHP

Now i am not even going to bother with getting into this very “abstract” debate so i am just going to put a link to the interview i did with one of the lead programmers at PRADO. This is why i chose PRADO and if you are a Solar, CakePHP, Symfony, Seagull etc…. fanatic good for you.

This is PRADO territory!
prado interview

Enjoy

Installing prado php framework applications on godaddy

This is a quick and dirty one for anyone that has ever tried to deploy their application on godaddy using the php application framework Prado. I personally like it for its versatility but i had a problem when i tried to deploy the application on the remote host.

I began by slimming down the actaual Prado application folder to the main files in the root directory, and only keeping the test, framework and requirements folder.

I then copied over the folder that contained my application and made sure than the base path in the index.php was correct which it was. However, when i went to the url for the site i got this error… Continue reading »

Installing Adobe Flex on Ubuntu

Well its been a while but i have been XTra busy finishing off the ATW application for the folks over at Justfares, but i guess my side of developing the application is about finished, not it is up to them to do what they want with the elements that surround the actual app.

Well i decided to install flex on Ubuntu and give it a chance, and it wasn’t as hard as i imagined. It basically used the main components that are readily available and fairly common. These are:

• Adobe Flex SDK.
• The Java Runtime Environment.

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So to begin i installed the JRE by firing up the terminal and entering :

$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts

And sitting through the install.

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When that was done i then installed the Continue reading »

Installing mono, apache, mod_mono and deploying applications in Ubuntu

Ok so i was kinda perturbed by the lack of documentation on how to install mod_mono on Ubuntu, and get it working on Apache so i decided to do some tinkering. So we will basically continue from the previous post that went through installing Mono on Ubuntu using XSP. So you ask??? Why should i even bother installing mono on Apache when it works perfectly well on XSP?

Well the answer is simple check out Continue reading »

90% done with the ATW application

Well it seems that things have gone faster than i have anticipated and i have basically finished the crux of the application and the last two things to do are to finish up the styling according to the client’s ( Justfares.com) design specifications and then do the final testing.

Hopefully i will put up a couple of screen-shots once the Application is close to being finally released. I believe that at the moment it will be released during its beta phase so that will be pretty soon too. The hardest part was the general logic behind the application and the UML diagram looks pretty horrific, but i guess now that i am basically done i will be looking into what other projects i can dip my hands into.

It seems that one of the next items could be anstravel.com but that is soon Continue reading »

Currently working on…

The debate between the various JavaScript libraries is finally over for me. For those who have are not programatically inclined in a internet,web authoring sense and/or have been hiding under a rock somewhere there are a number of available JavaScript libraries available and at one’s disposal, Jquery is my personal choice, Now i am sure that you are able to find comparative samples of each library, but i think that it is undeniable in MY opinion!!!! That Jquery is the most mature, and advanced library in terms of development and plugin accessibility especially when it comes to error handling and versatility.

In the near future i will be documenting and analyzing the project that i am currently working on for Justfares.com to enhance and improve the funtionalitionality of their current ATW planner. A number of libraries were considered but Jquery and their derivatives were ultimately implemented used.

It is basically an Around the World trip planner Continue reading »

Finally Up again!

Hello world!!! i couldn’t resist the generic greeting. Being a programmer it was mandatory. After much delay deliberation and delay my blog is finally here. Initially i dabbled with the concept of the blog when the notion of such was still in its infancy when MSN had their predecessor to live spaces, but that was for a school project. However, now 3 years later im back with a more educated and focused, autobiographical self-exploration. This shall be more focused on the main facets of my life, mainly work and the dissection, and discovery of web-related technologies.. Enjoy