A weekend of webdev
Monday, December 3rd, 2007I spent a good proportion of last weekend doing web development - what an exciting life I lead! First up on Friday night I finally managed to get a few moments to knock up a new Advent Calendar. Basically the same symfony-powered site as last year (which is also available for them’s that missed it) but with a new colour scheme and now using the commentable behavior plugin instead of my homebrew effort.
On Saturday I headed up to Waddecar to work on the new West Lancashire Scout County website. Mark Charlton, Pierre and myself did most of the work in a weekend before the summer but life caught up with us and it never got finished. So in 7 hours it was polished off, and that included accidentally running:
$ symfony propel-build-all
Learnt my lesson now 
I’m pretty happy with the site for a first release. The top navigation bar is quite neat - a bit of JavaScript created using sfPJSPlugin which can be included on other sites in the West Lancs “network”. Should hopefully build a bit more cohesion between the various sub sites. Options in the back end allow it to be customised with different colour schemes and functionality. Already Network are interested in having some extra buttons to use across Local Scout Network sites.
My already-infrequent blog entries might be a bit less frequent while I’m updating the Advent Calendar but I’m going to try to post occasionally to the Web Services blog.