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Some rants about technology, PHP, people, tools, web etc from a developers perspective. Feel free to copy ideas, code or anything from here.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

A new JAVA framework with PHP leanings

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Just came across a different kind of framework in JAVA. Usually when we talk about frameworks in JAVA they are always "full stack" with the kitchen sink thrown in for good measures. I am used to developing with PHP frameworks as they are not too complex and also i like the fact that there is no compilation involved. You just refresh the page and you can see the results. This is where PHP excels.

 But what if you want the robustness of JAVA and instant results of PHP? May i suggest Play Framework to you? Not only is it a breeze to get it up and running but also it follows the "shared nothing" approach of PHP which i have always liked for quick web development.

From the Play Framework site:
Play is a real "Share nothing" system. Ready for REST, it is easily scaled by running multiple instances of the same application on several servers.
Also, the fact that it uses "Groovy" as the template language it makes it more appealing for me, cause XSLT is a big PITA and i never "got" JSP. I have to say the designers of this framework got it right. They took the Best of breed programming language(JAVA) and married it to the shared nothing model of the Most popular scripting language(PHP). I will take this framework for a spin soon. Only question running through my mind is, will it scale?

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

HybridAuth PHP authentication library

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Came across this new Social sign-in library which goes by the name of HybridAuth. Seems like it is a good tool when you want to let your users sign-in to your website without registering to your site.

Will give a try sometime later. Check it out here!

New CSS framework from Twitter

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Recently one of my friends shared this new CSS framework with me. Named Bootstrap, this is a good attempt at creating a CSS framework and also helps accelerate web development.

Will certainly love to include in my next project. So check it out here!