I've been looking at web sockets this evening and building a proof of concept to see how easy these new technologies are. socket.io is something I've been meaning to look at for months, it provides client -> server sockets on web pages and falls back to using other methods for browsers that don't support this new technology.
I haven't posted anything up here frequently lately, despite me looking at a lot of cool stuff. So I guess this post is a small catchup of some of the cool things I've been learning and coding up.
I decided a couple of weeks ago to start putting the new things I’ve learnt over the past six months into my codeigniter template on github. This is mainly for my own use when starting each new project to be able to clone, but it’s in a public repository and it might be useful for others to take it as a starting point as well.
I have started a little project called baseless (Base styles using the less css framework).Baseless is designed to help developers (and designers) in prototyping web apps and web sites.
As this is the first time setting goals to measure myself against next year, I don’t really have anything tangible to measure against from the start of 2011.
The one thing I have accomplished though is getting a lot more into development. I started out from an early age as a web designer, got around 5 years commercial experience under my belt and then in mid 2010 after starting a fantastic job at Crafty Devil I started to learn more about development, starting with PHP and Codeigniter.