South African online buyers can now receive quotes in Rands and make credit card purchases through PayPal. “Just the other day, I found out that South Africans can now get PayPal accounts and link them to a local credit card. When you buy something, the amount is deducted from your credit card and the system [...]

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In the last two weeks my development team has made a few new discoveries in the area .Net ORM tools. The new additions are Sub Sonic (free) and Entity Spaces (paid – $80). We are in the process of evaluating and prototyping both of these tools for a enterprise sized web-application that we are about [...]

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Introduction First up, I have to mention that my first experience in the programming world was with C# .NET. I thought that I would never move to another language never mind leaving the .NET framework.I started working at WhiteWallWeb and the oddity language PHP4. Coming from a completely object oriented approach to the scripting PHP4 [...]

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I am currently at BarCamp Cape Town – day two. It is rather small but there are some smart guys here and the discussion is very stimulating. Currently Adrian Rossouw from Bryght did a useful presentation on Drupal. Everyone who has the required knowledge seems to agree with our hypothesis that Drupal is the best [...]

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I have been researching in loads of detail which open source CMS is best for the needs of us and our clients. I looked at Mambo, Joomla, Drupal, Plone, Typo3 and various others came up in my research. After some substantial reading it seems that two open source systems come out tops and depending on [...]

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Here at WWW we have recently been spending some significant time looking at various frameworks. We put together a list of several required criteria – here is a short list: Strong separation of Data, Logic and Presentation (MVC) OOP Strong naming conventions and smart English recognition Web 2.0 support and preferably libraries built in Built [...]

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Get free access to Windows manuals online at http://www.helpreader.com/pages/browse/ These currently include a PHP, mySQL, Smarty and Python manuals amongst others. Useful if you have a team of developers and you don’t want to save and maintain versions on your LAN.

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I could agree with Joshua Porter’s list more: Focus on social instead of personal. They solve too many problems, or try to. They’re about making someone other than the user happy. They sell it the wrong way. Not in it for the long haul. They show too much of what’s going on, and get gamed. [...]

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