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Featured: EqualZeal online store 0

Oct20

michaelbain successfully coded and implemented a complete online store cataloque, shopping cart and checkout solution for http://www.equalzeal.co.za.

Visual design assistance by pixelmagic.

http://www.equalzeal.co.za runs on e107 and this is a custom PHP and MySQL solution.

Some very exciting and advanced features were included ….

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Featured: Sandwich Baron 1

Aug27

michaelbain successfully completed a web project for http://www.sandwichbaron.com. The project involved moving the entire site to a new and updated hosting environment. The e107 installation was upgraded to the latest version and a custom inteface, wrapped in the e107 theme ,was built that allows the authenticated administrator to manage the menu tables and platter tables of the back-end MySQL database through a comma separated file download and upload interface. The database is then used for the site-side menu and platter displays.

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Featured: Sandton SPCA 0

Aug27

michael bain performed an e107 (a PHP based content management system) installation for and assisted with the theme implementation of http://www.sandtonspca.org.za.

Please have a look and support this worthy cause.

Charity: Neigh-Bours 0

Jul24

michaebain does charity work for Neigh-Bours. As with other charity projects, it mostly involves e107 customisations, theme adjustments and server side scripting.

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Charity: Highveld Horsecare Unit 1

Jul24

michaelbain does charity work for the Highveld Horsecare Unit. It mostly involves e107 customisations, theme adjustments and server side scripting.

Please support this worthy cause.

Why use PHP as the development platform for you site? 0

May15

If you need to embed dynamic text into static text, you’ll find PHP extremely useful. It was designed for this, and it excels at it. PHP is also very useful for integrating web pages with databases.

The PHP scripting language resembles JavaScript, Java, and Perl, These languages all share a common ancestor, the C programming language.

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What makes a good developer? 0

May15

What makes a good software developer?

“Fundamentally a good developer has a high proficiency in programming with an innate ability to create well-crafted code – code that is simple, extensible, optimized and robust. He has fulfilled other roles in the project lifecycle, experiencing development from other perspectives – analysis (especially right up at the business end), architecture, configuration/build management, non-functional and user acceptance testing, operational roll-out, etc. He harnesses these experiences and distills knowledge, coupling it to his core programming skills. ”

Fairly standard stuff, so far.

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