Saturday, July 28, 2007

Programmers and black holes

it's been awhile since i posted because i'm busy working on some things. I have to many ideas and to little time to work things out.

The one thing that is visible is the simple view library for the code igniter framework. I have abandoned it for a while because i needed to train a puppy but i will pick it up soon.

Apart from that i had the idea of creating an integrator library to generate jQuery code using only php. It's an effort which is maybe to much to handle alone but i want to have at least a proof of concept code.

In the past month(s) i also realised there is a big gap between developers and users. Where developers speak about rendering engines and applications, users speak about websites. Users don't care about programming languages, progressive enchantment, ajax, ... . They care about does the site does what i want it to do and does it do it fast and does it look nice enough to work on. I never understood why people wanted to work with the black and white/green programs and still do. I don't care much about how a certain button looks like but it has to te be descriptive or at least consistent within the GUI.

i'm going to have myself a summer of code on my own so keep checking the blog.