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Help those in need...
11/05/2023
For the last month or so now I've been helping at with a community interest company (CIC) called Quiet Connections. I've always been a strong believer in if you can offer your time and skills to those that need them do so. It's extermely rewarding and is a great way to transfer some of that knowledge you've gained over the years. Plus you often get to mess around and figure something new out while saying them a ton of cash.
They are a lovely bunch of people who got burnt by a previous developer that took their money and delivered nothing that was promised. It's so common these days in dev that it makes me sick to the bone.
Their plan is to revamp their website a bit so I've been working on a new version for them behind the scenes. Still trying to convince them to dump WordPress and go with Dumb Dog lol, well I can dream anyways ;-)
But their biggest plan is to have their own e-learning platform as they offer courses on various aspects of helping to deal with mental health issues. We are currently expirementing with Moodle to see if it'll fit all their needs so I'm working in the background getting that built up for them.
I've used Moodle before and its a pretty nice LMS, not that hard to use (though it was a pain to get setup and the theme built) and its full of features.
Watch this space for more updates and releases of their new website plus LMS.
Click below to check out the repo...
Dumb Dog goes out for a public walk...
17/04/2023
Dumb dog repo is opened up to the public. It's still certainly an alpha build but it's getting there.
I've created a sample site using it and plan on making a few more to help flesh the CMS out.
Click below to check out the repo...
See it in action, click below...
You dumb dog!
16/04/2023
So I wrote a CMS a few years back and I was going to opensource it. I still might but for now ITS ALL MINE!
That got me thinking I'll release a lightweight version but since I'm in love with Zephir I figured I'd just quickly knock up a CMS that is a PHP module.
And Dumb Dog was born...coming soon!
Plonky...open to the world
09/04/2023
Plonky is coming along nicely. It's been a fun little challenge trying to figure out how to run an app as a PHP module.
It's at the point now where I've opened the repo up for others. Though I doubt anyone will care lol but someone might find it of some use.
Click below to check out the repo...
Plonky
06/04/2023
So as many of you have probs experienced, your happily using something like Postman and you upgrade it only to find your collections are now broken or the app won't start.
This happened to me...again...so I have moaning to my cousin and he said, 'Why not build your own? Been thinking about doing one myself' so he challenged me to a 'dev-off' where we'd each take a few months and build out own app.
Originally it was to be built in Python using kivy and kivyMD as I wanted to get to know kivy. Sorry kivy team and devs but the experience was a painful one! The amount of headaches I had just getting stuff to build, position correctly and stay stable was too much my hair-line could take. So after about 3 weeks or so of on and off dev I threw in the towel.
Originally it was to be built in Python using kivy and kivyMD as I wanted to get to know kivy. Sorry kivy team and devs but the experience was a painful one! The amount of headaches I had just getting stuff to build, position correctly and stay stable was too much my hair-line could take. So after about 3 weeks or so of on and off dev I threw in the towel.
I'd been toying with the idea (after a dream I had) with making an app in Zephir-lang as I use it for my kytschBASIC language and I just love it!
Check it out here https://kytschbasic.org
So I figured I'd see if you could make a pure HTML, CSS and JS app that'll run as a PHP module.
And Plonky is what come of it.
The app is still very much in alpha but I'll open the repo up soon for people to mess with.
Click below to check out what I have so far...