From day dot for our new company Radiant Logic PTY LTD we have been purchasing 100% sustainable premium green power. Climate change is something that greatly affects everyone and making the switch is a very important step for companies to follow, and us as a web application development company primarily operating on computers and servers need no exception! I was very glad to hear during the week that the current hosting company that we use for VWS in Australia has gone 100% green also, meaning that our customers are helping reduce carbon emmissions. This area is something that we will be working on a lot this year forming a greening community with a few different companies to talk about changes that companies can make to reduce their carbon footprint. I think it is important for staff to raise the issue with the directors of their company and start making this change.
When publishing a number of email addresses to a web page you run the chance of a spam bot scraping your site. There are a number of alternatives; such as using a mail form, obfuscating the mailto link with JavaScript or even converting the address to an image. While mail forms will conceal your email address from spam bots, they also conceal your address from the users who may simply want your address for other correspondence. Obfusticating your mailto link with JavaScript is also pretty useless since, being client site any spam bot can “resolve” the link much like your browser. And last but not least using images to display your address takes away the linking functionality. So I suggest a different alternative - Why not use Flash to display the address?
Using Flash, we can load the address client side in parts; “username” “domain” and form the address in a Flash textfield. Then we can simply use the getURL() function OR better use the textfield htmlText with an anchor to simulate our mailto link. Here’s a hardcoded example of how I do it:
1. Create a 200px x 18 px document (FPS doesnt matter)
2. On Layer 1 add a textfield to the first frame, setting it to type dynamic, and give it an instance name of address_txt
3. Create a new layer above the previous layer for your Actionscript and add the following:
Seems to be a lot of exciting things going on in the world of PHP lately. In addition to Zend Framework there is now a plans to release Delphi for PHP. In a recent Delphi Seminar held in India, CodeGear (a subsidary of Borland) announced in addition to their release of Delphi 2007 they will release a brand new product line aimed at Rapid Application Development in PHP.
I have recently been flat out establishing my company Radiant Logic PTY LTD, based in Melbourne, Australia. I appologise for not adding more posts more regularly - I have been taking a break while I establish my team and going through a very large expansion. We are a company that specialises in custom web application development focusing on working with creative agencies.
In January we went to the PHP Melbourne User Group which made an interesting night. We will be attending Web DU and the mobile summit. We have got lots of exciting projects underway for this year including 2 major sites, one in the environmental sector and one in the food and beverage. We are doing a JEE custom development project also for catalogue photographer briefing system integrating into Cumulus also.
For anyone with advanced web application development skills looking for a job in a great experienced team please send me your resume to cam [-at-] radiantlogic.com.au. We are always interested in meeting new people and discussing opportunities to get people involved.
