Mike's Blog
My First Website
I'm super glad to see today that the first ever website I made is still online that first went up in 1999. Well, I say it's online but 'being cached' is admittedly the more accurate description. This snapshot from archive.org from 2001 has features that include a JavaScript powered "today's date" compoment that seems to be suffering from some kind of millenium bug (just kidding) and a form-to-email page that has field validation and, wait for it, pop-up windows!
PHP Code Style
I recently decided I wanted to apply the PSR-2 strict coding style to my existing PHP code and classes and as result surprised myself how quickly I was able to adopt it naturally in the new code I was writing once I had some similar configuration set across text editors.
Blogging
After a small amount of deliberation I've decided to put the latest version of my personal blog live again. You may notice a change in the front-end which I initially started work on over a year ago! The blog is the same as before, in that it is a custom built web application using my own MVC components together with Smarty but in the latest version the inner dependencies are managed using Composer. These components are still in the pre-release stages of development but watch this space.