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Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Born Again... Virtually

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This week’s post is all about Second Life, an online virtual world created by a company called Linden Lab. Good or bad, I had never heard about Second Life before starting this course. Considering that as of 2011 Second Life has more than 20 million registered user accounts (Wikipedia) I had to ask myself how I could have missed it. I was never a fan of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG) so that could explain why, but that’s beside the point. More importantly Second Life is more than just an MMORPG, firstly it’s not...
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Thursday, 5 May 2011

Building a Web Space Management System - 4

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As promised, in this fourth (and final) post of the series I will explain how I went about building the Web Space Manager itself. I must admit that when I first read the requirements for this assignment I thought that it would be quite challenging to do. I came to realise however that the real challenge was learning how to structure a PHP application in such a way as to achieve as much sepraration...
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Tuesday, 3 May 2011

Building a Web Space Management System - 3

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Last week I mentioned that I wasn't to happy with the way the code was structured so far. It was untidy to say the least and hard to maintain, even at this early stage. I also said that I was looking into MVC and OOP to instill some sense of structure and order to the project. We have a saying in Maltese that translates to: "the sauce will cost you more than the fish it's meant to garnish". Writing...
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