Posted by Andrew
Oh yeah, buzzwords. I wanted to give my two cents on the “new web.”
I like.
Seriously, there are all these amazing new frameworks coming out, all with great user-bases and support. The only language I’m really waiting on is PHP. I could roll my own, but then I wouldn’t get the help of having a whole community behind my project. When Ruby on Rails gets a cool new feature, I get it too. When I write one (one day), everyone will get to benefit. Open source is pretty slick. Besides RoR, there are plenty of frameworks, all of which I’ve checked out, but I think I’m going to stick with RoR, I especially like its integration with the Prototype javascript library.
Ruby:
Rails
Python:
TurboGears
django
PHP:
CakePHP
Mojavi
WACT
Almost all of these frameworks are Model View Controller, which seems to be the preferred pattern for web applications. No need to re-invent the wheel, go with the proven method. Please comment if you know of any other frameworks, I’m always on the look out for good stuff.
Posted by Andrew
Bad Behavior is a nifty PHP script that protects sites from comment and trackback spam and works on most major PHP platforms. I’m running it as a WordPress plugin, and its already caught a few bots!
Posted by Andrew
Find-A-Human – IVR Phone System Shortcuts. A sweet database of the numbers and combinations to get to talk to a real person instead of an automated computer.
Posted by Andrew
Zimbra: “The Zimbra Collaboration Suite provides support for email, contacts, and group calendaring, and consists of a server and client.
The Zimbra Server supports existing desktop and wireless personal information management (PIM) clients via standard protocols like POP, IMAP, and iCalendar: for example, Outlook, Thunderbird/Sunbird, Apple Mail/iCal, Evolution, Eudora, and Wireless IMAP. The Zimbra Client is AJAX-based—-Asynchronous Javascript on the client with XML/SOAP-based communications to the Zimbra Server, and runs on Windows, Linux, and Apple desktops in Firefox and IE browsers.”
Its finally here! A complete open source email application server. Supporting standards and providing all the bells & whistles. Goodbye Gmail, hello Zimbra!
Posted by Andrew
After doing some reading I learned a few tricks about Gmail Notifier. First, there is a Growl plugin that will display a notification when new mail comes in. The other cool idea comes from the author of gCount, he has changed the icons of the Google notifier to match his icons, which I agree look much better. If you like you can also use the icons from GmailStatus. Good stuff.
Posted by Andrew
I’ve been tinkering with the layout and style sheet of the great relaxation theme for WordPress. I think I’ve got it how I like it. Props to JD for helping me out.
Update
I didn’t like it – so I went back to the older theme :)
Posted by Andrew
I’m at it again, I come home and touch my parents computer. BOOM. So now I’m reformatting it and installing all the software back on it. One of these days I’m going to buy them a mac.
Posted by Andrew
The iPod nano was unveiled today, as well as iTunes 5 and the Motorola Rokr. Cool stuff, but I’ll stick with my black Motorola RAZR and 20GB 3GiPod (thanks Mom!).
