I’ve been intrigued by a few different “Javascript on the server” frameworks as they have passed by. Here is one that runs Javascript in a cloud and have an online IDE for creating the sites. The article at the bottom is an interview with the creator.
Akshell is a Cloud Service that helps developers [...]
Just wanted to try to keep track of some interesting modules mentioned at DrupalCon:
Organic Groups – create groups that users can join. groups can have own home page and context
PURL – use for embedding context info into URL. Use this instead of setting session variables
Context Spaces – more granular variable level overrides than using Context [...]
Jason and I attended a DrupalCon session on a Open Atrium, a drupal distribution for intranets and project management. It’s basically Drupal-based app that competes with 37Signals’ Basecamp/Campfire/Backpack suite. It’s an impressive product which made me think to look up some other Drupal distros that could be of interest. Here’s some of what I’ve found [...]
I think the title of this article says it all.
UI Test Automation Tools are Snake Oil
Michael Feathers, the author, is very solid.
It’s a very familiar ‘rabbit hole’ in the industry. … Personally, I think that in this day and age selling them [UI testing tools] is irresponsible. Developing them open-source? Well, let your [...]
Have you ever been in a place where you’re maintaining two blogs and want to copy posts from one to the other? I wrote a WordPress plugin that does just that. In our case it copies from Dayspring’s internal blog to our public one. This removes the tedium of having to copy content, comments, [...]
When working with open source software, one of the key things it’s necessary to be aware of are the licensing restrictions. Open source does not mean “no strings attached.” In fact, there are some relatively rigid rules on how open source software can be used and customized, which often have impact on custom web development [...]
Cloud computing is hot. But here’s an interesting article about the cloud model versus the downloadable / behind-the-firewall model that concludes that there are still arguments for downloadable and self-hosted software, chief being control.
Firewall vs. Cloud
And this one is about a cloud-based web app development platform which went under:
Coghead
In my opinion that’s one of the [...]
(In my opinion of course)
This was the session about Google Web Toolkit (GWT). This was a session by the authors of a diagramming tool built on the web.
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