This week in Rails - new release edition
Friday, June 6th, 2008Rails 2.1 release
This week saw the release of of version 2.1 for Ruby on Rails. You can see the announcement on the …
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Posts Tagged ‘open-source’
Why Yahoo’s BrowserPlus has a long way to go
Friday, June 6th, 2008Yahoo recently announced BrowserPlus, a browser-plugin based runtime that enables web applications to “break out of the browser”, and offer functionality typically reserved for desktop applications. While not entirely ready yet, a preview release of BrowserPlus demonstrates building some common applications purely in HTML/CSS/JavaScript, including an IRC client, a drag-and-drop photo uploader and a JSON AJAX request inspector.
With BrowserPlus, Yahoo wants to make web apps “break out of the browser”, bridging standard web technologies with OS APIs and bringing web apps a step closer to desktop apps. However, the approach isn’t at all new; Gears (formerly Google Gears) did the same with local storage for web …
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Did Rails Sink Twitter?
Friday, June 6th, 2008Twitter is arguably the most heavily used Ruby on Rails application in the world. Almost since its inception, Twitter has fostered a wildly passionate cult following. Also from the beginning, Twitter has suffered …
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The Stateless Problem of Ajax
Friday, June 6th, 2008We are often dazzled with websites that were developed with Ajax. The interface is amazing and the interaction with users is simply beyond expectations. The asynchronous streaming of information from the server gives the user the ability to update the information in our browsers without refreshing the entire webpage. This update in web experience has truly launched Ajax’s role in web develop Submitted by admin Category: AJAX Design
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The Week in ColdFusion: 28 May – 3 June: Another CFML engine goes open source
Thursday, June 5th, 2008Strictly, this falls outside the 28 May – 3 June timeframe for this weekly roundup, but it’s news too big to hold off on: Railo, the alternative CFML engine, is going open source. Hat tips to Kai “Agent K” Koenig, currently kicking his heels up at Scotch on the …
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Goosh: Google From The Command Line
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008I love the command line.
Sure, the WIMP paradigm brought the personal computer out of obscurity and into the hands of less technical people. But if you ever need to find out what’s really going on, there’s only one answer — cast aside the pretty icons, dropdown menus, tabs and OK/Cancel buttons and head straight for the command line.
The power of the prompt is unparalleled, and it doesn’t matter whether you’re running Windows, Mac or UNIX/Linux. From the command line, you can monitor system processes, poke around in directories that are …
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Checkmate — There’s Money In Online Games
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008CrowdChess.com is a high profile social gaming site that has received a fair bit of media coverage lately.
Well, the site is now for sale with a minimum bid of $50,000 and a Buy It Now price of $100,000.
While the concept of playing chess on the computer is not new, what …
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The leadup to WebDU: web conference with a difference
Monday, June 2nd, 2008The time for WebDU, Australia’s only web conference with a dedicated ColdFusion track, is just around the corner. The fun starts next week with workshops on the 11th of June followed by the conference itself on the 12th and 13th, at the Sydney Convention Centre. I’ll be there to cover all the action for SitePoint.
First up, the workshops. You can signup for a full day of Flash, Flex, or FarCry - but I hear the one NOT to miss is Mark Mandel’s session on the Transfer ORM framework. Mark will take participants through building a sample application with Transfer, including Eclipse setup, Transfer installation and configuration, basic usage and some of the more advanced stuff too - …
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Simply Rails 2: Your Rails 2 beginners book
Monday, June 2nd, 2008The first edition was touted as the ultimate rails beginners book and read by 10’s of thousands of people. I’m pleased to announce a 2nd edition to Patrick Lenz’s brilliant book…
It’s called Simply Rails 2 and is available for purchase right now in PDF or Printed format at sitepoint.com.
Grab the printed version for just $39.95 or the PDF version for just $29.95.
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PHPBench.com: Live PHP benchmarks, demystifying “best practices”
Monday, June 2nd, 2008As a new contributor to the SitePoint blogs, I’ll be covering PHP web development, JavaScript and general web tech.
When it comes to optimizing PHP for performance, there’s no end of resources available, and no end of conflicting opinions either. Everyone seems to have their own approach to writing “fast” PHP code; using single quotes, avoiding require_once() and using isset() before is_array() are some of the most common. But with reliable benchmarks thin on the ground, how do we know if any of these techniques - often touted as “performance best practices” - actually deliver benefits? Chris Vincent’s new PHP benchmark suite at PHPBench.com aims to “set the …
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