Mozilla, you are slipping... I mean Firefox 3.5 has been nothing more that a complete disaster. Slow loading of pages, browser hangs up, Javascripts not working and the list goes on... Websites that I can get to open normally with other browsers seem to just not work with Firefox 3.5. Even after upgrading from 3.5 to 3.5.2, things seem to have become even worse. I have tried everything I could think of. Started Firefox in Safe Mode, disabled extensions and nothing works properly. I have reverted back to 3.0.13 and at least things are working again.
Mozilla, step your game up.. This is just not good enough!
A few weeks ago, I hinted at Grafik Kaos being redesigned. Well here it is! The only difference now is that it is not powered by ADDT (Adobe Dreamweaver Developer Toolbox) but by CodeIgniter.
I have to say, this is definitely the easiest PHP framework to pick up. It only took me about a couple of weeks to get my head round the working of CodeIgniter, understanding its structure and the MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern was also the easiest to pick up.
If you are looking for an alternative to using Dreamweaver especially with working with Javascript libraries, you may want consider Aptana Studio. A new version has been released and it fixes a number of issues.
If like me, most of you are using the 64-bit flavours of Windows, you may have noticed that Aptana was sometimes pretty slow in doing things and did have some annoying problems.
My recent dabble with Joomla has prompted me to re-evaluate whether to use Dreamweaver to develop my applications. Now that Adobe has decided to stop working on any future versions of ADDT, I am having to find something else to use. To this effect, I have also started looking at CodeIgniter. After reading up some of the documentation and watching some videos tutorials, CodeIgniter certainly does seem to be a good alternative for me to take.
A few weeks ago, I had a slight rant with the issues I was facing with Joomla and its MVC architecture. Having developed a number of PHP sites all based on my own code, I think the main problem was that I was not quite comfortable working with a framework that had a steep learning curve. I don't think some of that rants about Joomla I read online helped either.
