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My tasks of late have reacquainted me with the Python programming language .  I used it years ago at American Greetings Interactive, and for about two weeks at Humana in Louisville, KY, but little more.  The infrastructure where I am currently employed uses Cold Fusion, a tag-based language that is efficient when working with web pages, [...]

In the past, I was involved in the construction industry.  One of the most time consuming and challenging parts of the job was estimating.  Back in my time, the tools available for the smaller contractor were limited – basically Lotus 123 and later, Excel, spreadsheets.  Pen, paper, and telephone ruled the estimating task for most [...]

I was recently contracted to work with a small company to enhance and expand their PHP application.  The people were polite and the environment was quite relaxed. I started the first day with the normal optimism that I start all projects with – looking for ways to contribute and to absorb as much as is [...]

Virgin Mobiles web site has improved in both speed and navigation (UI) over the past few years.  It is easy to find what you are looking for, and the deals/prices are hard to beat. We have 4 phones with no annual contract using Virgin’s very affordable ‘Beyond Talk’ plans (starting at $25.00 per month). While looking [...]

We are testing multiple PHP frameworks and CMS platforms for affiliate websites hosted on Host Monster and Go Daddy.  This round, we are testing Concrete 5 and PyroCMS. Both Concrete 5 and PyroCMS are built on top of the Codeigniter framework - a very powerful and simple to learn  MVC framework written in the PHP programming language. Concrete5 Link [...]

Views display.php Now that we have created the affiliate.php class (section 1) and the form.php (section2), we have to write the code to display the widget content.  This is the display.php file within the ./affiliate/views folder. One challenge I had with this was getting rid of the the default title that displays above [...]

Views form.php and display.php This is section 2 of the PyroCMS widget creation example.  As stated before, PCMS is built upon Codeigniter – a very powerful and easy to learn PHP Framework.  Codeigniter is MVC compliant. You have updated the class file – affiliate.php.  In there, you defined [...]

PyroCMS is a very powerful and capable PHP-based CMS.  It is authored on top of the Codeigniter framework .  It is very fast, and scalable and very promising as a powerful PHP framework. Download the affiliate.zip file here Caveat: The documentation for PyroCMS (PCMS) is very sparse.  Any answer to [...]