Ajax and Ajax Frameworks

I have been a developer for nearly 20 years and a web developer for about 10 years. Over the years, I have considered creating a blog to share the things I have learned (and am learning) about web design and development, but I never seemed to have the time. When I began learning about web development using Ajax and Ajax Frameworks, I decided to take the time to create this blog.

My intention for this blog is to focus primarily on Ajax Frameworks, but since web development requires knowledge of many technologies, I will occasionally write about things such as CSS, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, Flash, etc.

Lately, I have been using JQuery as my primary Ajax tool. Although I have used other Ajax Frameworks in the past (Dojo Toolkit, Yahoo! User Interface Library, Scriptaculous/Prototype), JQuery has thus far been the easiest to learn. In my first few posts I will discuss some of the JQuery Plugins that I have created. Some of these include: a plugin for Google Maps (jquery.imGoogleMaps), Form validation and submission  (jquery.imValidateForm), Page Populater (jquery.imPagePopulate), and a plugin to create lists (jquery.imList).

While I am still learning about some of the other Ajax Frameworks, I hope that what I have learned will be helpful to others. Just remember, “When you can pull the pebbles from my hand…”

Associating CakePHP .ctp Files in Aptana, Eclipse

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Viewing CakePHP’s .ctp files in Aptana Studio has been quite annoying due to the lack of syntax highlighting. I have grown use to it until earlier today when I was converting a .php file into a .ctp. I knew there had to be a way to associate .ctp files with .php files in Aptana/Eclipse. I did a bit of searching and found the solution.

  1. Go to Window/Preferences/General
  2. Select Content Types
  3. In the right pane, select the Text Navigation tree
  4. Select PHP Content Type
  5. Click the Add button
  6. Enter *.ctp and click Ok

If you have a .ctp file open, you will have to close and re-open it to view the changes. Much better.

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