A couple of weeks back I helped nor to set up a shop to sell her beautiful handmade cards - you should definitely have a look. I used simplecart.js to add the cart to a view in her Drupal 7 site. Simplecart.js is a very minimalist e-commerce tool that I have wanted to play round with for a …

This week’s voluntary web project was helping the folks from House of the Commons with their wordpress site. House of the Commons is a four day event organised by citizens, activists and housing professionals concerned with the UK housing crisis, specifically focusing on Oxford, but …

Exciting news! My my beta site is live on the interwebs now. You can even read this article on beta.charlieharvey.org.uk. I decided to launch an incomplete version with bits missing and imcomplete in the hope of getting some feedback from the internets (i.e. you ;-) ). _H_Changing webhosts_ …

Just a quick update today. I’ve got round to putting the charlieharvey.org.uk Dancer code up on gitorious now, for anyone who is interested to nose about. Obviously I have made sure that config files are not present so it will no work as it is. And let’s face it the code is really onl …

This week in my site redesign video series I’ve been playing with the Twitter bootstrap carousel, working on the nav tree and taking advantage of Dancer’s dispatch to build a set of popular pages reports with APIs ad feeds. …

I am blogging about redeveloping this site. A quick update on the comments subsystem and using the very cool mutable serializer in Dancer. Then I talk about some of the site objectives. I get cut off when saying the final objective which is just to make the site responsive. I guess I should add t …

I am blogging about redeveloping this site. Today’s installment is a bit broken. As it turns out screenr cuts you off after 5 minutes! And I am a bit long winded. I delve a bit more into Dancer, the minimalist Perl web framework and talk a bit about DBIX::Class. Unfortunately screenr broke …

I am planning to blog the process of redesigning and redeveloping this site. This is the first installment of the process. This week I am just focussing on how the site looks, and developing static blocks which can be included everywhere in the site. I’ve been using Twitter’s bootstrap …

This site is almost 10 years old believe it or not. Which is a lifetime in web years. The frontend mostly runs of a pile of cgi scripts and HTML::Template files that have grown organically over the years. The backend is developed using the Catalyst framework. So, I’ve decided that it …

I’ve recently been learning about the Haskell-based Yesod web framework. This is about my experience of building a simple pastebin with Yesod, mongodb and Haskell, which took a couple of evening sessions and a Saturday afternoon.The first question to answer is why choos …