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)
Introduction to PHP Security – Part 1
By Omad Habib
It is a question that has daunted software engineers for decades: how secure
is my software application? Modern web application development has evolved to
a point where one can build and launch an entire product or company revolved
around a full-fledged software-as-a-service. The only interface to your
product is the UI provided via a browser, mobile application, or the data
exposed by your web service API. Unfortunately, as these modern software
media continue to evolve into more sophisticated platforms, so do the areas
in which your product and your data become exposed to potential security
risks, criminal intrusions, and data theft.
We’ll explore in this blog frequent channels of attacking and exploiting a
PHP application. This blog is by no means an official guide to the security
of your application, and you sho... (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)
Appcelerator is an open source software company specializing in products and
services for rapid rich Internet application (RIA) and SOA-based services
development. The Appcelerator Platform SDKs enable developers to develop rich
AJAX and DHTML applications using cross-browser widgets, a unique Web
Expression Language and other open standards-based languages like HTML and
CSS - without the use of JavaScript. Appcelerator supports most languages,
including Java, Ruby, PHP, .NET, Python and Perl.
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Currently, a li... (more)
Arnold Veenema a colleague of mine wrote an interesting item on his website
about how to create your own bootable USB stick with ESXi (Previous called
ESX 3i) using the download of the ESXi installable ISO-image. In twelve easy
steps you will be able to use your own USB stick with ESXi!
Take a look at it here:
http://www.veenema.net/index.php?Virtualization:HOW_TO_Create_your_own_bootable_ESX_3i_usb_stick
Technorati Tags: VMware, ESXi, USB, HOWTO
... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global rich Internet
technology provider Appcelerator named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's
upcoming AJAX World Conference & Expo 2008 West, which will take place
October 20-22, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, in
San Jose, California.
Appcelerator, Inc. is an open source software company specializing in
products and services for rapid rich Internet application (RIA) and SOA-
Click Here to Register for the Conference!
based services development. The Appcelerator Platform SDKs enable developers
to develop rich Ajax and DHTML applications using cross-browser widgets, a
unique Web Expression Language and other open standards-based languages like
HTML and CSS - without the use of Javascript. Appcelerator supports most
languages, including Java, Ruby, PHP, .NET, Python and Perl.
... (more)
This article tries to demonstrate that Java can be more productive than Ruby.
We are going to develop the same application of the article Rolling with Ruby
on Rails Revisited (part 1 [1] and part 2 [2]) but using POJO [3]s annotated
with JPA [4] and a Model Driven Framework, OpenXava [5] in this case. The
result is that with less code, and less time you obtain a more powerful
application.
Ruby and rails: The regressive framework
Ruby on rails [6] is so elegant, so easy, so productive. I cannot avoid read
and heard continuously these comments. For example, the article Rolling with
Ruby on Rails Revisited of Bill Walton says:
“What would you think if I told you that you can develop a web application
at least ten times faster with Rails than you can with a typical Java
framework?”
Oops! Ten times faster!
Well, after these comments I decided to learn Ruby on Rails. I ne... (more)
Eclipse Platform on Ulitzer
Microsoft was in one of its interoperability moods Wednesday and said that
developers using Eclipse, the great open source IDE, will be able to target
Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, its Azure cloud operating system and
Silverlight.
This renewed open source invasion - Microsoft's no stranger to Eclipse
although it's not a member - is being spearheaded by two open source allies
of Microsoft: Canada's Tasktop Technologies for Windows 7 and Windows Server
2008 R2, and France's Soyatec for Azure and Silverlight. Tasktop's CEO, by
the way, created Eclipse's Mylyn project.
Anyhow, there's a new open source plug-in that's supposed to advance the
industry's cloud interoperability efforts.
It offers PHP developers a series of wizards and utilities to write, debug,
configure and deploy PHP applications to and from Azure - the from part being
d... (more)
T-Venture, the venture capital arm of Deutsche Telekom, and Creathor Venture
provide Netbiscuits with expansion capital of several million Euro. The
investment allows Netbiscuits to take the company’s growth strategy for the
USA to the next level and expand business in core markets in Europe and Asia.
Additional extension of Netbiscuits’ global partner program and further
investment in technology innovation and enhancements will back up the
company’s ambitious growth strategy.
Netbiscuits enables its customers to develop, publish and monetize
cross-platform mobile websites and apps. The company’s feature-rich,
enterprise-class mobile cloud software platform serves the mobile web
programs for premium commerce and retail companies, publishers and
advertisers in a software-as-a-service mode. The broad customer base spans
across the online, media and entertainment ind... (more)
In the 21 years since its inception, PHP has become the world’s most
popular server side scripting language. Known as a powerful, easy to learn
language, PHP, according to one metrics site, is used by 82% of all the
websites whose server-side programming language is known. In more cases than
not, if you encounter a desktop application that has a user-interface, such
as an e-commerce applications or social media sites, the likelihood exists
that it’s coded in PHP.
Building applications can be a complex and time-consuming process and
frameworks can provide a great resource to facilitate the process. If
you’re a startup or new business then you especially need a versatile and
agile platform for coding applications; PHP frameworks can help immensely.
So exactly why do you need to use a framework, you might ask? Frameworks are
super useful tools because they provide a s... (more)
(LinuxWorld) I received a review copy of Mandrake Linux PowerPack 9.1 last
week. I was happy to see it, but as I noted in the story about my frugal Red
Hat 9 upgrade a couple of weeks ago, I'm a little hardware-challenged at the
moment. Did I let that stop me? Of course not! When the going gets tough, I
did what I usually do, I begged my long-suffering girlfriend, Susan, for
help. Sure enough, she allowed me to use the well-traveled Sony laptop in her
possession to replace the Red Hat 8 installation with Mandrake 9.1. Her only
requirement was that I not lose any of her data. She wanted her e-mail,
browser settings, and pictures intact. With warning bells ringing in my head,
I assured her that her files were absolutely safe with me, and no possible
harm could come to them.
Despite this outrageous fib, I avoided a Divine lightning strike and set to
work. Last time ... (more)
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