GM-RAM Website Revamped
Sunday, August 22, 2010

I have just put up the latest version of the GM-RAM website. In appearance, it is very similar to the old site; the main visual changes have been the switch to a three column layout, and the decision to dispense with jQuery UI tabs on the site pages. The content has hopefully been improved to make it clearer what GM-RAM does, including some of the projects we have been involed in. (more…)

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The Blogs Page: The feed digest view helper
Saturday, April 17, 2010

The feed digest helper is used to fetch a list of the most recent items posted on a blog, using its RSS feed. (more…)

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The Blogs Page: The feed/digest view script
Friday, April 16, 2010

The view script for the feed/digest action is straightforward. If there is an error, that is rendered; otherwise, the feed digest is displayed. (more…)

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The Blogs Page: The feed/digest action handler
Friday, April 9, 2010

The feed controller digest action handler is used to render a list of the five most recent blog posts on the specified blog, as exposed by the blog’s RSS feed. (more…)

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The Blogs Page: The AJAX feed digest view helper
Sunday, April 4, 2010

The implementation of the AjaxFeedDigest view helper is contained in the file AjaxFeedDigest.php, which is located in the /application/views/helpers directory. (more…)

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The Blogs Page: The index/blogs view script
Sunday, February 28, 2010

As with the other pages, the view script for the blogs page makes use of jQuery UI tabs. The special feature of this page compared to the others is that the number of tabs is dependent on the number of blogs in the database. (more…)

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The Blogs Page: The mapper classes
Tuesday, February 9, 2010

The Default_Model_Db_Mapper_Blog class is used to manage data exchange between the Default_Model_Db_Blog and the Default_Model_Db_Table_Blog classes; this exchange represents reading data from and writing data to the database. (more…)

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The Blogs Page: The data classes
Saturday, December 19, 2009

The Default_Model_Db_Blog class is used to encapsulate the data contained in the rows of the blog table. (more…)

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The Blogs Page: The index/blogs action handler
Friday, December 4, 2009

The blogs page is handled by the blogs action of the index controller. This fetches information about the blogs from a database table; it then passes this information to the view script. (more…)

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The Blogs Page: Overview
Friday, November 27, 2009

The blogs page on the GM-RAM website is used to display details of the company-sponsored blogs, including a digest of the five most recent posts. Like the other pages on the site, it displays its content within a series of tabs. The first tab simply contains some general comments about the blogs; each blog then has its own tab. (more…)

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