For those of us who didn’t make it to the ElisLabs sessions at SXSW. Visit site »
A really nice interview with Matt that hits on many different topics, including upcoming features in WordPress, PHP4 vs. PHP5, and PHP vs. other web development languages. Most relevant to the readers of this blog: at the end, Matt says: “(If I were building WordPress from scratch, starting today), the only other language (besides PHP) I would consider using is Python. I really like Python.” Overall, really good little interview. Visit site »
October 24th, 2007, 6 PM in Seattle, WA
I’ve said a few times that the one big time Blueprint is missing compared to our original Journal-World CSS framework was a way of generating grids of any number of columns, column widths, and gutter widths. Consider that problem solved. This site even generates a background image and compressed versions of the CSS for you. Awesome. Visit site »
Matt Mullenweg (whom I’ve never met and is probably a perfectly nice guy) doesn’t really have much ground to stand on in complaining about PHP4 support getting killed off, if you ask me. PHP5 has been out for three years. Time to move on — either to the latest and greatest PHP or a different platform all together. Get over it. Visit site »
Good riddance. PHP 5 has been out for three years now, and even the most ardent PHP nerds are playing with Python and Ruby on the side. Visit site »
I’m so excited to see Christian’s Typogrify being ported to all these popular publishing platform. The web is getting prettier every day! Visit site »
Hamish Macpherson has ported Christian’s awesome set of Django filters over to PHP for use as a WordPress plug-in. Nice. Visit site »
Hah. I love this. It’s fun, it’s clever, and it will make your inner geek happy. Visit site »
I’ve noticed several bloggers recently jumped the WordPress ship to try out Habari, a new blogging platform built on PHP5 using more modern programming concepts (read: object-oriented) and giving you more flexibility in databases (read: PostgreSQL support). Good to hear this is out there, because frankly, most of the existing crop of blogging tools (MT, WordPress, etc.) are not “modern” in any sense of the word. Habari isn’t for me (I’m too hooked on Python now), but it may be worth looking into if you want a nice PHP-based blogging platform. Visit site »
Even as someone who only dabbles in programming and has never used Ruby, I’ve always had reservations about it simply because I perceive it as a small player and I can’t point to any large-scale, mission-critical, high-traffic web apps built with it. That’s not to say you can’t build this type of app with Ruby — I’m just not aware of it being done. Joel seems to have similar reservations: “For Serious Business Stuff you really must recognize that there just isn’t a lot of experience in the world building big mission critical web systems in Ruby on Rails, and I’m really not sure that you won’t hit scaling problems, or problems interfacing with some old legacy thingamabob, or problems finding programmers who can understand the code, or whatnot. I for one am scared of Ruby because (1) it displays a stunning antipathy towards Unicode and (2) it’s known to be slow, so if you become The Next MySpace, you’ll be buying 5 times as many boxes as the .NET guy down the hall.” Joel considers C#, Java, and PHP to be “safe” choices for web applications, and says that Python is “on the border, about to cross the line from an ‘interesting’ choice to a ‘safe’ choice.” Visit site »
Pretty sweet. I’d love to do something similar, sans PHP of course. Visit site »
A blogger cites less SQL, the admin interface, less files to manage, and performance as reasons why he preferred Django over RoR and Cake. Visit site »
A Rails user take a cursory look at Django and Symfony and compares them to Rails. He says a lot of really nice things about both (even if a few points about Django are inaccurate…comments have corrected him). Still, he concludes that the two are “playing cathup” to Rails. Visit site »
Benchmarks have been posted at rubyonrails.com. Summary: “Rails performed much better than Symfony. And Django performed much better than Rails.” Visit site »
A valiant effort and a much better approach to PHP development, but if this is that add.html is the best you can do at keeping PHP out of my HTML, then I’ll stick with Django, thank you very much. Visit site »
The Wolf puts together yet another handy tool: constants you can use in your CSS file (uses PHP). For some background, you might want to read about his first attempt. Visit site »
Haven’t got a test instal going yet, but it looks great.It’s PHP/MySQL based, has a CSS layout that can be easily customized, is extensible, and generally looks sweet. Can’t wait to give it a try. Visit site »
Although two minutes is probably a stretch, Mike clearly explains why we don’t need .mobi. Visit site »
Make comments appear on your blog without reloading the page on the form submission. Cool. Visit site »