In Light Engineering (LED), we’re known to be multilingual – depending on
the project, we’ve been known to speak Perl, Python, Java, C++, Javascript
and PHP, to name a few. Our weapon of choice is still Ruby on Rails, the
popular MVC framework. Out belief is that Rails makes certain types of tasks
easy, and others laughably trivial.
... (more)
(LinuxWorld) — One of my non-profit Web sites, VarLinux.org, ran on my
modified version of the PHP-Nuke weblog package from the site's inception in
March 2001 until late November 2002. I chose PHP-Nuke as a starting point
because I was very impressed with it. However, the more I learned how to use
PHP, the more I realized that PHP-Nuke was not only a tangled mess but that I
had made it even worse with my modifications. A year later, I was faced with
the fact that VarLinux.org was not only lame because it was based on
PHP-Nuke, it was also showing its age. It lacked features of other weblogs,
and still lacked many of the features I had intended to add to the site.
If I were going to fix the code, the first thing I would do would be to make
it an object-oriented system. I toyed with the idea of converting my code
into OOP-based code, but I concluded that if the P... (more)
One of the big buzzwords that rose to fame in 2005 was "Ajax." The term
"Ajax" was first coined by Jesse James Garrett in his essay "Ajax: A New
Approach to Web Applications"
(www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php), and it refers
to the use of asynchronous JavaScript and XML to drive Web applications.
Rather than reloading the entire Web page every time data needs to be
transmitted, only small, necessary chunks are sent and received, with
JavaScript manipulating the UI in response to the data received. This gives
the look and feel of a regular client application while still being hosted
inside of your Web browser. While Ajax methodologies have been used for years
- most notably in Microsoft's Outlook Web Access - they have just recently
become incredibly popular via services such Google's Gmail and Google Maps.
Since Ajax has taken off among ... (more)
According to Netcraft, 40% of all web applications already run PHP, but IBM
and Zend have decided that PHP needs to be fattened up to take on .NET.
So in the next few days Zend is going to join the Eclipse Foundation as a
Strategic Developer and kick off an overarching open source initiative that
it calls the PHP Collaboration Project, to create an industrial-grade PHP web
application development and deployment environment.
Among other things, Zend want a PHP Framework developed to standardize the
way PHP applications are built and create a uniform code base for
next-generation web applications. Eclipse will be the IDE.
The Framework is supposed to accelerate the deployment of mission-critical
PHP web apps by bringing simplicity, open standards, a "friendly" license and
a structured development process to the party.
Besides IBM, which is lending manpower to the cause, Zen... (more)
eBusiness Applications, Inc., provider of AJAX-based enterprise software
components, released EBA Grid Version 3, a cross-platform AJAX (Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML) web user-interface component that can be used to create
dynamic Spreadsheet-like interfaces inside a web application. eBusiness
Applications’ software brings the speed and interactivity of desktop
software to web-based applications, helping software developers create better
business solutions quickly and users save time in their everyday web-based
computing tasks.
With thousands of developers worldwide using Ajax components from EBA in
their enterprises, eBusiness Applications is furthering its support of
AJAX-based component solutions with new features and enhanced support for
Firefox and Internet Explorer web browsers.
“Our focus for this release is to propel the interest in AJAX by
en... (more)
Coach Wei's Blog
Here is a question that I have been pondering on and off for quite a while:
Why do "cool kids" choose Ruby or PHP to build websites instead of Java?
I have to admit that I do not have an answer.
Why do I even care? Because I am a Java developer. Like many Java developers,
I get along with Java well. Not only the language itself, but the development
environments (Eclipse for example), step-by-step debugging helper, wide
availability of libraries and code snippets, and the readily accessible
information on almost any technical question I may have on Java via Google.
Last but not least, I go to JavaOne and see 10,000 people that talk and walk
just like me.
The other reason that I ponder this question is that the power of Java is a
perfect fit for the areas where websites may need more than markups or
scripting, such as middleware logic. PHP and Ruby etc ... (more)
Netbiscuits provides one platform for all devices. The software service
allows you to fully exploit the capabilities of high-end mobile devices like
the iPhone, Nokia Series 60, BlackBerrys, Android phones and many others.
To realize next generation mobile website layouts, effects, and
functionalities, the use of CSS, Scripting and AJAX is fully implemented with
the Netbiscuits platform.
These features enable your mobile website e.g. for multi column layouts,
sliding and fading effects and the interaction with native phone applications
on the latest handsets. At the same time, Netbiscuits adapts your mobile
website for virtually all basic and mid-range mobile devices worldwide.
Consequently, with Netbiscuits wide reaching global mobile device coverage
and next generation mobile Web 2.0 layouts are no contradiction for mobile
developers anymore.
The demo portal can ... (more)
Kaiserslautern, September 22, 2009 – Netbiscuits, the leading international
software platform for developing and operating mobile websites now allows
browser-based mobile websites to be embedded into downloadable client apps.
"Shell Apps" for iPhone, Symbian, WindowMobile, and Android offer additional
functions and open up new distribution channels for mobile web services.
"Making contents and services available to your customers on mobile phones up
to now used to mean choosing between a mobile website and a client
application," says Michael Neidhoefer, Managing Director of Netbiscuits.
"Both channels have their specific advantages: a Netbiscuits-based website is
displayed optimized on nearly all mobile devices. An app enables additional
functions and can be very successfully distributed via App Stores, like on
the iPhone.”
Netbiscuits now combines the best of... (more)
Let's play word association. I say "Web Hosting." I bet "fat margins" didn't
jump into your head. More likely, you thought of some of the "where are they
nows" of the bubble, like Exodus and PSINet. Let's do another round - I say
"New York City," and I'd wager that "cheap rent" wasn't the first thing you
thought of, either. So it may surprise you to learn that one hosting company
that's been around since 1993 and that's actually making money, Logicworks
(www.logicworks.net), just happens to be based in New York City.
What's their secret? Talk to CEO, Carter Burden, and he'll tell you that they
have low customer turnover because of their superb support, and that this
also allows them to earn a modest price premium over the competition. One
customer raves: "I have been a client of Logicworks for over 6 years. The
service has been as close to flawless as anyone has a ri... (more)
I’ve been blissfully neglecting to blog for months with the
assumption that a large part of our goal was completed. After watching good
people like Martin LaMonica and Jon Udell balance out the mainstream tech
press with coverage of lessish tools and languages, and having seen forward
looking companies like RedMonk inject themselves into the traditional analyst
racket with smart, honest, and unignorable critique, and having seen herds of
Java luminaries migrate to simpler, more agile tools and languages, and after
hearing Bill Gates say that less code was the only metric, and having watched
David, Bill, Ian, Adrian, Phillip, Aristotle, Harry, Mark, Mark, Chad, Curt,
James and many other extremely talented programmers dismantle all the common
hollow arguments for superfluous complexity and replace them with simple
methodologies and working code, after all that ... (more)
The major breakthrough in Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 is visual authoring with
XML data. You can now perform both client-side and server-side XSL
transformations in a snap. I covered XML syntax in one of my previous
articles. I also presented the XSL syntax and covered the differences between
a server-side and a client-side transformation in my article, XSL Overview.
Finally, in the article, Consuming a Remote RSS Feed with Dreamweaver 8, I
show you how to consume a remote feed in your site, using the XSL
Transformation server behavior in Dreamweaver 8.
This article explains how to install and configure XML and XSL support for
your web server, in order to be able to perform server-side XSL
transformations. The article covers the configuration of PHP application
servers - versions 4 and 5 - for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux operating
systems.
In a server-side XSL tran... (more)
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