Archive for the 'Frameworks' Category

Phusion Passenger (mod_rails): finally a good Apache module

March 27th, 2008

Head over to modrails.com and you’ll be greeted with a screencast of how fast and easily you can set up mod_rails. I’ve always hated the idea of having to run a cluster of mongrels for each rails application I want to deploy. It’s also prohibited on most hosts due to a need to manage the […]

Boller! The New COBOL WebFrame

January 23rd, 2008

Well, not really, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there’s one on the way for Fortran too.
Daniel Spiewak over at Code Commit talks about the end of the ruby fad and the attitudes of those fueling the fire, or running out of the burning house.
While I agree there’s a fad, I think it’s more to […]

New Python UI Toolkit

December 10th, 2007

For a long time now I have wanted to (easily) develop a cross-platform UI for my Python applications. At first I went for Tkinter but quickly found it was limited and that the rest of the community had moved to wxWidgets.
Let’s not even get me started on wxPython. While I have gotten several quick little […]

Prototype and Mootools Cheat Sheets

January 12th, 2007

Jonathon Snook has been gracious enough to spend some time with the Prototype 1.5.0 and Mootools r83 libraries to create cheat sheets of each. Hop over to his blog for PDF and PNG downloads of each cheat sheet.
While I’m not a big fan of Prototype, mostly due to the bloat, I do love me some […]