Hello,

and welcome to my blog. This is actually the first time I try writing a blog, so I'm unsure how useful this is gonna be.

this blog is gonna be mostly about stuff i write, programing-wise - which means mostly JS - Mootools in particular, PHP and HTML. Also, sience I've started my first steps with RoR, you might find some here as well.

More About Myself

Anyway, my name is Arieh Glazer. I live in Migdal Ha'emek, Isreal.  I am a psrt of a city-kibbutz, which is a communal-anarchistic way of life. Don't worry - this doesn't mean you might find me protesting against technology, globalization, and banks. It means that i live with a group of people (6 at the moment) who share a common bank account and try to change our society through education and politics.

But enough with that - for the concerns of this blog I'll say that I'm quite experienced with web design. I'm in and out of this field or at least 7 years, mostly as a very intensive hobby. These are the languages i mostly use:

PHP

I've started mostly with php (way back in the v4 days), all procedural spaghetti. This only means that I have great appreciation to the way the language has evolved these past few years, with the amazing maturity 5.3 has brought us. Today I write almost exclusive OOP apps, using a various collection of libs classes I've written over the years, ending with quite a nice, light and solid MVC FW, which this site is built on.

Also, one of my ongoing amazement is the great PHPUnit lib, which leverages the way i write code in many many ways.

JS

This has become my favorite language by far. I like its native closures, its event-based system, its customizability, its syntax. Nowadays I programs alsmost exclusively with Mootools.

Mootools!

3 things i love about MT - 

1. It's awesome Class library.
2. The fact that it leverages the event-based nature of JS to the extreme.
3. An amazing community, through the Mootools google group.

You can find my plugins on my Forge page, and most of my starting posts will probably be usage examples of my Classes.

xHTML/css

I just love HTML. i mean it. It's just an awesome expressive language. I love taking a piece of text and striping it down to its most basic semantic blocks, and finding the best ways to express them with HTML. This has obviously became much easier with H5 (which you can see I've tried my best to implement on this site), though I'm still a bit skeptic about how much you can really use this here and now.

I've included CSS under the same title because HTML wouldn't have been what it is without CSS, and all my love to HTML is made possible only because of the extreme flexibility of CSS.

i think this is it for now. Hope to be able to provide some intersting content.

as a finishing note - few things i plan to write here:

1. A simple guide with use-case examples to all my Forge-plugins.
2. An intro to PHP OOP through a very nice exercise. this is something i've developed while teaching a friend, and i've always thought of making this into a totorial.
3. Links - mostly of interesting stuff i'll find along the way.