Lately I have been spending time with Backbone JS, building single view applications on the web with asynchronous networking. It has taken some time to realise that this is the future of the web, it makes so much sense.

When I set out my goals for 2012 one of the goals was to launch and validate two apps, one of which has been lingering for around a year now but never made it to a production stage.

I am now happy to announce the private beta for FTP Locker, so signup soon and you will receive one of the limited invites.

In December 2011 I decided to give Play! Framework a go, and what better place to start than right here on my blog. A totally non mission critical application that I can just have fun with and figure out how play works. I was so impressed with play but I already wrote an article on that.

As this is the first time setting goals to measure myself against next year, I don’t really have anything tangible to measure against from the start of 2011.

The one thing I have accomplished though is getting a lot more into development. I started out from an early age as a web designer, got around 5 years commercial experience under my belt and then in mid 2010 after starting a fantastic job at Crafty Devil I started to learn more about development, starting with PHP and Codeigniter.

Being quite a JavaScript aficionado, I am used to and quite like functional programming, I finally got the opportunity to use a closure in PHP, a recursive one at that.