Am I out of my depth ?
Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 5:25 pm
Hi all,
I suppose, if I'm asking "am I out of my depth" then I already am but I'll go on...
I took on a project recently from an ad asking for "php, Flash, css and any other related skills".
Working from home, flexi hours - very nice.
I was honest about it and said "Flash - 9/10, php - 6/10 and css 2/10 but keen to learn more.
So I'm given access to the server (it's a codeigniter framework which has thrown me a little but not too bad),
I open the main .css to find it's 4320 lines !
Is it me or is that a little excessive ?
So now I'm struggling with every manoeuvre trying to find the javascript in one folder, the .css in another, making "controllers" that seem to do
nothing more than redirect to the page "view" file that I actually want to work on and then finding that everything I make looks
inconsistent because I can never find the right styling element in the .css !!!
Just a rant really - does anyone here use codeigniter - is there a one liner that sums up the secret to making sense of
a system which (to me) seems to just breaks up loads of code and then stick it back together at runtime ?
Best wishes
Monty
I suppose, if I'm asking "am I out of my depth" then I already am but I'll go on...
I took on a project recently from an ad asking for "php, Flash, css and any other related skills".
Working from home, flexi hours - very nice.
I was honest about it and said "Flash - 9/10, php - 6/10 and css 2/10 but keen to learn more.
So I'm given access to the server (it's a codeigniter framework which has thrown me a little but not too bad),
I open the main .css to find it's 4320 lines !
Is it me or is that a little excessive ?
So now I'm struggling with every manoeuvre trying to find the javascript in one folder, the .css in another, making "controllers" that seem to do
nothing more than redirect to the page "view" file that I actually want to work on and then finding that everything I make looks
inconsistent because I can never find the right styling element in the .css !!!
Just a rant really - does anyone here use codeigniter - is there a one liner that sums up the secret to making sense of
a system which (to me) seems to just breaks up loads of code and then stick it back together at runtime ?
Best wishes
Monty