Articles by ALAN KNOWLES

Migrating off Netsuite - The hidden cost of Clouds..

Article originally from rooJSolutions blog One of the more interesting projects I have ongoing is a migration and deployment of an ERP system. For a bit of background, our customer was persuaded about 3-4 years ago that moving their accounting and...

The hidden cost of Clouds.. getting off Netsuite

By Alan Knowles

Roo.XComponent introduction

By Alan Knowles

Article originally from rooJSolutions blog http://www.roojs.com/roojs1/docs/symbols/Roo.XComponent.htmlWith a nice long\xa0Easter\xa0holiday, I finally got a chance to hack on some of those todo items that I'd been putting off for quite a while. One of the...

Javascript Templating, AngularJS and Roo.XTemplate

By Alan Knowles

Article originally from rooJSolutions blog \xa0Ok, as I said earlier, a nice Easter break, meant I could get back to coding for fun. The other issue I had to deal with over the weekend was how to do the templating for the Javascript application.\xa0Having...

Roo J Solutions Limited is recruiting

By Alan Knowles

Article originally from rooJSolutions blog Since we have been very busy already this year, I have now almost completed the process of migrating from a Sole Proprietor into a Limited Company. Roo J Solutions Limited is now a registered Hong Kong Company....

Free your data... seed webkit browser mirror button

By Alan Knowles

Article originally from rooJSolutions blog One of the great things about the internet is the availability of cheap or free services online, so many clients are using gmail, dropbox, github etc. for their business operations. But all to often they forget that...

Deleting the View and Controller..

By Alan Knowles

Article originally from rooJSolutions blog This is NOT a post for people who do not use MVC, Please delete your code, and write it properly.. Anyway, as anybody who has used or written a reasonable framework in PHP knows, MVC is pretty much the golden...

What was I doing last night... Seed querying xscreensaver

By Alan Knowles

Article originally from rooJSolutions blog Like quite a few developers, I earn income by selling my time, either packaged on a project, or by the hour. For this to work, keeping track of time is essential. Unfortuntally, like most creative people, I really...

Watch-out PHP 5.3.7+ is about.. and the is_a() / __autoload() mess.

By Alan Knowles

Article originally from rooJSolutions blogWell, for the first time in a very long while I had to post to the PHP core developers list last week,\xa0unfortunately\xa0the result of which was not particulary usefull.The key issue was that 5.3.7 accidentally broke...

Cli parsing in FlexyFramework, PEAR Console_GetArg

By Alan Knowles

Article originally from rooJSolutions blog \xa0And another rare article get's published, I've been slacking off posting recently. As I've been busy getting some interesting sites online. The biggest being a rather fun viral advertising campaign on facebookwww.facebook.com/deargoodboy....