Tag Archives: framework

The perfect web application framework

Posted on 17. Nov, 2008 by forouzani.

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When talking about frameworks such as Ruby on Rails or Symfony, it is often expected that the framework should solve all your problems out of the box. Unfortunately, this is almost never the case. If it were as black and white as this, most web developers would not currently have their job. The issue is [...]

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Derek Silvers – unafraid to tell the truth

Posted on 25. Sep, 2007 by forouzani.

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The rails community has been in flamewar shock over the past few days. One of the Ruby on Rails ‘icons’ – CDbaby – has turned around and given rails a major slap in the face. I have nothing more than respect for Derek. That doesn’t mean I agree with his conclusions, but in a time [...]

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Zend Framework out of beta

Posted on 05. Jun, 2007 by forouzani.

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After completely losing the php framework wars to symfony, Zend Framework has come out of beta with v1.0 RC1. Personally, Im not a big fan of the zend framework, simply because I think naming it a ‘framework’ is a bit misleading. Its just a bunch of classes, without enough cohesive coupling to earn the title [...]

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Google Gears – offline web applications

Posted on 30. May, 2007 by forouzani.

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Today Google announced a new project they have been working on, called Google Gears. Its a browser extension which allows web applications to work both online and offline by using local storage and a synchronization system. Its not a new concept, similar products have already been released by Adobe and Joyent, but the fact that [...]

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