Cognitive Resonance

Adobe’s kuler is quite a nice online and offline tool for managing and sharing colour palettes which can then be used in Adobe applications. It requires an Adobe ID to use.

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When I am making websites I find the “graphic design” part harder than the “coding” part. I can tell what looks good and what doesn’t, but coming up with colour schemes from scratch is something I’m not an expert at. DeGraeve.com has some pretty nice tools to help out with generating colour schemes: Color Palette Generator returns hex values based on a photograph, and Color Picker returns related shades for other hues.

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Been a while since I’ve posted on here. Need to do it more often! Ought to look into getting some proper hosting and transferring the blog to a custom WordPress install, too.

I’ve not done much Object Orientated Programming before. I took a year’s worth of Computer Science at University in which we did some OOP Java, but I never took it beyond that in a practical sense, and so I’ve not been familiar with it.

Most programming I’ve done since then has been PHP, and I’ve not used the OOP side of it. My host doesn’t have PHP5 anyhow, and that version changed the way that OOP worked anyhow, so I’ve put off using it. Most of my PHP projects have been database related, and I’d also had difficulty relating the relatively simple OOP stuff I’d done in Java to a practical application in a MySQL database. Sure, I might be looking up information about a person, who could have properties like “name” which I could access with methods like “setName”… but more practical MySQL-access OOP matters eluded me.

I came across this page tonight, which has a nicely worked out example, starting simple and building up, using a custom class for database access. I need to actually play with some examples and familiarise myself with it, but it seems fantastic

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