Articles Categorized as 'Web Development and Programming'

Joomla 1.0x Developers Manual

Chandesh (Mik) Parekh
by Chandesh (Mik) Parekh
in Web Development and Programming, Books, Joomla!
July 24, 2008

Although Joomla is a very popular open source application for building content-rich web sites, the available documentation for version 1.0x leaves a lot to be desired.
Currently working on a pretty big, and complicated, project involving multiple Joomla sites, I went off in search of relevant material that would help me design and build custom components […]

Cheat Sheets for PHP, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, CSS and SEO

Chandesh (Mik) Parekh

I went on a bit of a Cheat Sheet binge this month. Working on a couple of projects using various technologies means I keep bouncing around looking for stuff so I thought I’d better get some cheat sheets up on my wall to save me time.
Most of these are from one site, the brilliantly named […]

Ruby and PHP are the Leading Web Development Languages according to Sun’s Tim Bray

Chandesh (Mik) Parekh
by Chandesh (Mik) Parekh
in Web Development and Programming, PHP, Ruby on Rails
July 8, 2008

Tim Bray, director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems, said in April’s Ruby Conference that Ruby and PHP are the languages of choice for new web applications.
Both Ruby and PHP are open source and therefore it comes as no surprise that both these languages are being taken up far more quickly than established languages like […]

How well does a Ruby on Rails Application scale?

Chandesh (Mik) Parekh
by Chandesh (Mik) Parekh
in Web Development and Programming, Ruby on Rails
June 24, 2008

A lot is usually made of the scalability of Ruby on Rails applications, usually leaning toward the negative.
ZDNet spoke to LinkedIn about their viral application, called BumperSticker, for Facebook which sees in the region of 1 billion page views a month!
Read the article on ZDNet.com here…
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BuildingWebApps.com - A great resource for Ruby on Rails Developers

Chandesh (Mik) Parekh
by Chandesh (Mik) Parekh
in Web Development and Programming, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Useful Web Sites
June 17, 2008

I know this has nothing, well almost nothing, to do with Internet-related business but I’m so impressed with this site and its founders that I just had to write about it.
For those of you who may not know of it, Rails is a web development framework built using the programming language Ruby. The framework is […]

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