Panes of Glass

This is a short list of some of the amazing, new applications coming out for developers to use on the web:

Heroku for Ruby on Rails development
Photoshop Express for image editing and sharing
WordPress 2.5 for even more powerful blogging and now speedy image galleries
Twine for linking your tagged based information together (M. David Peterson has had [...]

I don’t know how many others have tried this, but trying to create a form in Rails that uses multiple models is quite a challenge. It can certainly be done, but every method I’ve come across so far requires Javascript. What’s wrong with that? Nothing, unless some of your users have Javascript disabled. If you [...]

I’ve spent a little time recently working with Edge Rails, RESTful resources, RestfulAuthentication and OpenIDAuthentication. That’s a mouthful for sure.
I’ve uploaded my sample_app (based on Ben Curtis’s openidauth sample app). I made changes to Ben’s app to account for recent changes to Edge Rails (as of revision 7501) and to disable the auto-enroll feature when [...]

I’ve been thinking about this question ever since I came across WAMP Server the other day. In their list of included packages, they noted Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki and phpBB. Until I read that, I had never considered a modular, open source web application to be a framework. (more…)

The debate rages on between those who prefer the simplicity of HTML forms combined with scripting and those who dream of a day when everything in a web application can be written with tags. I’m talking of course about the WHATWG’s Web Forms 2.0 and W3C’s XForms standards. A great example of this debate can [...]