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gWidgets plugin for Symfony in the Top 10!

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Unbelievable! My very humble Symfony plugin sfgWidgetsPlugin to add some javascript helpers for gWidgets is 9th on the symfony top list of plugins (by usage)! see the list. Hey guys, there must be a mistake :-) I simply hope it is useful and convenient for those who tried it…hopefully they use it in production ;-)

I know some people wrote to me about some bugs and I did not take the time yet to first fix those bugs and then reply to them…but I promise, by mid-Sept I should be back on track to work again and improve things. A few things on my todo list:

  • fix bugs
  • test on IE
  • remove some dependencies (such as Base.js)
  • improve some part to make the html more compliant
  • add a one or two new widgets maybe (at least one accordeon I hope)

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webapp in Timor

Friday, June 29th, 2007

I am currently in East-Timor, again….that’s about the 10th times I come on 2 years!
I have been re-writing from scratch the customer and billing system for the electricity and water companies (actually government bodies).

This time I decided to go with Symfony PHP5-MVC framework. It was my first experience with this framework but I can tell you it is pretty amazing! It took me 1 month to learn and rewrite my app. Not only it is very fast to code due to a lot of automatisation, keep you using best practices and help you to do re-usable code but on top of this the application is less buggy than before (and by far!) and with features that were not yet in the previous version (plain PHP4 with very basic MVC) that took me about 4 to 6 months!
This should motivate any of you for Symfony…unless you are not a programmer!

I post here 2 very basic screenshots. I will put a live demo as soon as I am back from Timor, this is not really possible from here due to the terrible internet connection.

Customer Information for UtilitiesCS4U list view

 

I know there are people waiting on the forum for some answers about ical4WP or gWidgets. Sorry guys, as long as I am here in Timor I will not have time to do much on these apps but I promise I will try to catch up as soon as I am back.

Posted in OSS & Tech, Symfony, Web 2.0 | 3 Comments »

gWidgets: light widgets all around

Monday, March 5th, 2007

It is my turn to use this “no-more-meaning” word: Widgets. Everybody use it in a lot of different context…but I could not find another name yet! Sometime I lack imagination. So what is all about?

I am working currently on a project where I need to use quite a bit of Javascript and I wanted to reuse some code over and over. I am used to work with Prototype which is a pretty good js library and well integrated in Symfony the framework I’ve started working on. I like the idea of widgets in Dojo as well as some plugins from jQuery world and I wanted something somehow similar.

Today I am releasing the first beta version that include only 4 widgets so far. If it is useful for you guys too, we will consider to extend it and add more later (I’ve got plenty of ideas). comments and bugs reports are welcome! So far we have:

  1. gExpander: a simple way to show/hide inline/ajax content.
  2. gTab: tab solution for inline/ajax content.
  3. gBox: simple modal window for inline/ajax content as well as images,
  4. gTip: tooltip for inline/ajax content.

Of course we put a demo for you to see before downloading. For the future, I am thinking to improve the code (I guess you will see that it can be improved a lot) as well adding new widgets and of course adding a lot of stuff that users will feedback…

I hope you’ll enjoy them! Official Homepage for gWidgets.

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