Syntactic sugar

Check out my brand new Prototype-based reaction-widget

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I needed a simple, easy to implement and lightweight library to allow a customer to Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD) records in a database. Nothing special here; i could have made a custom PHP-script for this, takes 2 to 3 hours of tedious and annoying work. Instead I googled for something that could do this with minimal configuration, has a small footprint and uses ajax. I ran into fullblown frameworks, with a lot of configuration, or small projects, written spaghetti-style, lot of them a PIA to implement without having to search/replace for paths & includes.

So; I decided to create something like this myself, without a large PHP-Framework, completely written OOP-style (including the Javascript) and when finished it should be able to run with approx. 4 lines of code (not counting the table-definition).

The idea is quite simple; the UI is generated from javascript, no PHP here, configuration is done by one XML file, which contains both controlling-values (theme, language, connectionstring) and the table-definition (which fields to display, what kind of editor to use).

What will you need to run Crudder?
- A LAMP-server (prolly work on IIS-PHP too)
- PHP compiled with DOM and XSL-t-extensions

What 3rdparty code will be used:
- Prototype.js
- ADODB5 (the lite-version will prolly work, I will test this)
- TinyMCE

Check out crudder.net

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I’m very happy to announce the first (preview) release of tLiner (time-liner). tLiner is a script that ‘hooks’ into the Flash-player from Jeroen Wijering and creates a time-line-based messaging-widget.

Your website-visitors can now react to certain parts of a audio- or videofile, no more :
“1:21 : she said daddy!! ahhhh” or ” @0:58 can you see that disc flying behind him?”, just press “React to this timeline” when a funny or interesting part of a video moves along and enter anything you have to say. When other visitors reach that particular video-moment the message will appear (and you can reply to it).

The script is still an early Alpha, needs to be cleaned up and refactored. I’ll be releasing this script for download in a while, prolly as GPL.

For now, you can watch a demo below, or generate a widget for your own blog on http://www.tliner.com

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