iScaffold 2.0 status report

I have two news for you: a good and bad one. The good is that the core code is ready, working smoothly and almost ready to ship. The bad is that I still can't release it, writing documentation is essential I think, but testing is more important. The documentation will have three chapters:
- Getting started
- Code template reference
- A step-by-step tutorial project

I started to create a small project with the generated source code just to test the produced quality and I've encountered small, but annoying bugs, like give an option a default value, joins broke after a modification, etc. These are easy to fix problems, but they need to be gone, before I start to create the docs.

+1 feature will be added: a simple authentication model to password protect your CRUD application.

Happy new year everybody!

Category: Programming - Tags: iscaffold crud codeigniter - 3

MooTools Forge

MooTools.net has a nice new feature, called Forge. It's a code repository for developers who are willing to share their MooTools based projects. At this time, it has only 36 scripts, but I'm sure, that this will be multiplied in a shot time, check AjaxRain.com for instance. It's a great collection of scripts, but it's uncontrolled.

What I like about MooTools Forge, is that they give you a guideline on how to publish you code. The first step is posting the project into GitHub, then you have to add a simple "yml" file to describe your package. You can even define the dependencies. Read more here.

It does 4 things at a time: provide documentation, example codes, demos and download opportunity. Official MooTools projects will be stored here also.

DATA URI scheme

This is a good-to-know piece of web development. Images, HTML, data objects can be rendered with a single URI.
The Hello world example of the URI data scheme is:

// copy this to the address bar
data:text/html;charset=utf-8,
hello world

data:[][;charset=""][;base64],

• Reduce HTTP requests
• Create crazy things, like: this and this.
• Useful for bookmarklets
• Generate images on the fly
• CSS also supports it