It will be a month that I am using CodeIgniter on rewrite project for PHP ecommerce site. I think I spent enough time to form good impression about it.
For start, it is not RubyOnRails that is for sure. However it has enough MVC elements to make it very usefull and enjoyable for development. Based on [...]
December 7, 2007
Categories: Agile development practices, PHP . . Author: Zeljko Dakic . Comments: Leave a Comment
Today I would like to write about deeply personal subject of every developer, about editors. A lot of my work happens in the editor. I am always on the lookout for something that can improve my work and efficiency on one hand, and on other, I don’t really want to change everything and that I [...]
December 7, 2007
Categories: PHP, RubyOnRails . . Author: Zeljko Dakic . Comments: Leave a Comment
I was looking for excuse to try out HAML for some time. Let’s first see what it is. HAML is html templating syntax that does resemble Pythonian way of using indentation as syntax. It makes coding html easier, html more readable and on top of that makes enforcing standards easy. It comes as Rails plugin, [...]
November 1, 2007
Categories: Agile development practices, PHP, RubyOnRails . . Author: Zeljko Dakic . Comments: Leave a Comment
What prompted to write few words about PHP and Rails is article on O’Reilly 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails . Rails is really great platform that is fine tuned to power developers taste, however there are some problems in development of Rails apps, and deployment as well which [...]
October 1, 2007
Categories: PHP, RubyOnRails . . Author: Zeljko Dakic . Comments: Leave a Comment
It has been a while that initiative to essentially kill all PHP4 support and force as many of the old aps to convert or die. PHP5 was around for quite some years and there is no reason to ignore it’s superior features by using old sw. My current provide DreamHost still is offering both as [...]
September 14, 2007
Categories: PHP . . Author: Zeljko Dakic . Comments: Leave a Comment