Archive for March, 2006

PHP Frameworks Review

Browsing the del.icio.us pragramming tags earlier today I came across an interesting review of some of the major PHP frameworks floating around at the moment. It should be noted though that there seems to have been some unfair omissions of CakePHP’s features in the accompanying chart and review.

Sun’s Gosling on Ruby and PHP

I spotted a recent article while on the Riding Ruby blog in which James Gosling of Sun – aka: “Father of Java” made extensive comment regarding Java’s placing with Ruby, PHP and other platforms. “PHP and Ruby are perfectly fine systems, but they are scripting languages and get their power through specialization: they just generate [...]

RubyCorner

A blogging and discussion corner has been set up for Ruby fanatics everywhere. You can register to begin adding your favourite Ruby blog or regularly updated Ruby content straight-away. Think Digg for Ruby. Current examples include: A Ruby & Rails blog set up by two .Net guys – be interesting to see their perspective. Blogfish [...]

37 Signals Release Essays as Ebook

The team over at 37Signals recently started offering 91 essays across 171 pages of an ebook on web app software development at the respectable price of $19. Getting Real details the business, design, programming, and marketing principles of 37signals. The book is packed with keep-it-simple insights, contrarian points of view, and unconventional approaches to software [...]