So I’ve been thinking about things, thinking about the state of web development. What could I write about to could help out some new recruits and budding developers. (Note this is a long one, so get some coffee, sit back, read, and I’d love to see your thoughts and opinions at the end …). In [...]
Read moreYa know there’s times in your life you do things that feel ‘wrong’. This somehow feels that way, but one of my buddies wanted to know how it’s done, so here it is:
I’ve got an application I maintain in PHP which has been in production for a good number of years. It’s stable, [...]
Caution Thinking Out Aloud:
Okay the purists have just decided to kill me. Let the religious wars begin !
No seriously, everytime I do some coding in an old PHP app which is heavily dependent on HTML_QuickForm, I keep questioning how possible would it be to convert it across to Rails, and whether any other persons [...]
Every wondered about the possibility of running a rails app, and a php (or anything else for that matter) site together, on one virtual host, on apache. But why? the hordes screamed … DHH keels over … the PHP community says ahh just put it in CakePHP… and to you it feels just plain *wrong*.
However, [...]
Rowan is a Product Development Manager, specialising in architecting, developing and putting web applications into production - in particular Ruby on Rails based apps. He lives in Toronto, Canada but speaks in a funny accent as he's originally from New Zealand. He's been working in the software and web business for over a decade. This blog covers Web Application development and deployment in the real world, dealing with topics from business fundamentals to Ruby on Rails, Merb, PHP, Flex, MySQL, Apache and more.
