Off we go! Another year of discovery, excitement, change and quite possibly some daunting challenges awaits our brave developer hearts once more. As we walk bleary-eyed to our desks again, fresh smells of coffee filling the office, it’s an excellent time to refocus – amongst other things – on our technical goals; how we’d like […]
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4 Web Resolutions for 2008Published by January 15th, 2008 in Office Stuff, Ajax, Web 2.0, Client Work, Development Processes, Technologies, Developers Interest, WWW Site, Project Management and Ruby on rails. 2 Comments |
“[Google] can can extort, control, and dominate the world…”Published by December 5th, 2007 in Office Stuff and Developers Interest. 0 Comments |
Have a read: Google is massively invading Privacy - IOL (today)
Strong language, and we have heard it before, but we have seen that where there is smoke there is a fire… (yes that link is ironic). I think in years to come, Google’s (and Wikipedia’s) dominance will certainly become a major issue for various reasons.
Your thoughts? […]
PayPal: Good news for South African eCommercePublished by November 15th, 2007 in Office Stuff, Development Processes, Technologies, Developers Interest and WWW Site. 0 Comments |
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 even […]
.Net ORM – object relational mapping toolsPublished by November 14th, 2007 in Office Stuff, Web 2.0, Technologies, Developers Interest and WWW Site. 4 Comments |
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 to […]
Rails: Database Search using ‘acts_as_ferret’Published by August 8th, 2007 in Office Stuff, Web 2.0, Development Processes, Agile, Technologies, Developers Interest, WWW Site and Ruby on rails. 1 Comment |
Do you need the capability to run full text based searches on your database? The Ruby on Rails plugin ‘acts_as_ferret’ will enable your application to do this.
‘acts_as_ferret’ is a Rails port to Ferret, the Ruby port of Lucene. It is an ActiveRecord mixin which adds full text searching capabilities to any Rails model.
It also caters […]
Design trends on the WebPublished by July 3rd, 2007 in Office Stuff, Web 2.0, Development Processes, E-Marketing, Developers Interest and WWW Site. 0 Comments |
Trends on the Web come and go at a frightening rate. This rate of change is due largely to the nature of freedom that exists around web ‘culture’. There is no one person or company who controls it (Google hasn’t got there yet…), and anybody is free to contribute anything to the online community. At […]
AJAX Fight NightPublished by June 19th, 2007 in Office Stuff, Ajax, Web 2.0, Development Processes, Technologies, Developers Interest and WWW Site. 1 Comment |
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 pattern […]
The Architect dismantles the oppositionPublished by May 4th, 2007 in Office Stuff, Developers Interest, Staff and Awards. 0 Comments |
In the inaugural WWW X-Box Championship, it was Dan Nuttall (company architect) who outplayed all challengers in FIFA 2007. They came from all corners of the office - enthusiastic developers; cunning project managers, the ever competitive marketing manager and the big-talking G.M., even the MD himself (who engaged in private training sessions at home) had […]
BarCamp Cape TownPublished by June 17th, 2006 in Office Stuff, Ajax, Web 2.0 and Developers Interest. 2 Comments |
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 platform […]
CMS DebatePublished by June 14th, 2006 in Office Stuff, Technologies and Developers Interest. 10 Comments |
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 […]
